• General Notes

  TITLE:  King of DENMARK
  AKA:  "Lodbrok"
  NOTE:
  Interconnecting lines with several of his children.He entered the Seine in abt 845 with 120 ships.Charles the Bald attacked and King Ragnar defeated his force and hung 111 prisoners ,in full view of the defeated army,watching from the across the island.He sacked Paris,France on Easter Sunday.Charles the Bald paid a levy/ransom to leave them in peace.He was said,in his old age,out of envy for his son's renown as a Viking,to have raided Northumberland where King Ella captured him and through him in a snake pit.He died singing his death song.His sons,in blood revenge, captured King Ella and carved the "Blood Eagle" on his back hacking out his ribs and forcing the lungs out to be spread like wings across the back."Lodbrok" translates to leather or fur breeches.Bordeaux was one of his many strongholds that he used for years.He conquered Aquitania from the Franks and his sons were Vikings of reknown in Western Europe. 

Details of (King) Ragnar Sigurdsson's family with Aslaug SIGURDSDATTER