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Female Svanhild Eysteinsdatter Click to view Svanhild Eysteinsdatter in the family tree

Svanhild was born in 0850 in Maer Nord Trondelag Norway.  Svanhild's father was Eystein Glumra the Noisy Jarl of the Upplands Ivarsson and her mother was Aseda Rognvaldsdatter.  Her paternal grandparents were Ivar Earl of the Uplands and Daugher of Trondheim; her maternal grandparents were Ragnvald Gudrodsson of Agder and Tora Sigurdsdottir. She had two brothers named Rognvald "The Wise" and Malahule.  She was the youngest of the three children.


Svanhild's family with Harald I "Fairhair" , King of Norway Halfdansson

‌Svanhild and Harald I "Fairhair" , King of Norway were married in a religious ceremony in Norway.  They had five sons named Eric "Blood Axe", Olaf "Gierstad-Alf" Haraldsson Prince of, Bjorn "The Merchant" Haraldsson Prince of, Regner "Rykkil" Haraldsson Prine of and Sigurd Harraldsson King of.

1 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 243a-18
Further source/citation:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 121e-16

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