Yrsa Helgasdatter

• Birth Notes
  • Birth: Abt. 565

• Death Notes
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• General Notes
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        From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
    
        Was taken in a battle and married by King Adlis. Then was captured by Helgi Halfdansson and he married her. Helgi's wife, Olof "The Mighty", told Yrsa that she really was Helgi's daughter and so she left and returned to be Adlis's wife.
        Beautiful daughter of King Helge and Queen Alof who as wife of King Audils was captured by King Helge and carried off to Denmark where the Danish king took her as his wife. When her mother Queen Alof, wife of King Gierthiof, told her she was hers and Helge's daughter, she left Helge and returned to her first husband. She and Helge had a son, Rolf Krake. [WBH - Sweden]
    
        MINOR, NEWLIN, WAITE, FOSTER LINE
    
        !Left King Helgi when she became aware of the incestuousness of their relationship to turn to the hard-drinking, horse-loving Athils/Eadgils. Product of the liaison with King Helgi was the glorious Hrolf. [A History of the Vikings, p. 48]
    
        Dau. of Olaf the Mighty and Helgi Halfdansson; m. Adils Ottarsson; mother of Eystein Adilsson. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]
    
        Dau. of Helgi Halfdansdotter and Olaf the Mighty; m. Adils Ottarsson of Sweden. [Ancestral Roots, p. 160]
    
        Part of the household of King Geirthiof in Saxonland when she was captured by King Audils of Svithiod. King Audils married her, but she was afterward taken to Denmark by King Helge of Leire after a successful plundering expedition in Svithiod. Helge had a son by her, Rolf Krake, but Yrsa returned to her first husband, after being told by Queen Alof, the wife of Geirthiof, that Helge was her father and Alof her mother. [History of Sweden, p. 38]
    
        Dau of Helgi Halfdannsson and Yrsa; m. Adils Ottarsson; mother of Eystein Adilsson. [Brian Paulson, 25 Aug 2001]
    
    # Reference Number: G6T0-30
    
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    # Note: Title: Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, and Kiev, by Rupert Alen & Anna Dahlquist, 1997, King's River Publ.
    # Note: Page: 4