General Notes

Nickname:<NICK> The Haughty
Sigrid storråda (end of 10:th century)

According to Saxo and the Icelandic sagas Sigrid Storråda was the daughter of Skogla Torste and the wife of King Erik Segersäll. About the year of 990 she was rejected by her husband and she returned to her properties in Västergötland.

In 995 she became a widow (A this time she was about thirty five years old). The following years two men, Harald Grenske (A small king from Norway) and Vsevolod (A small king from Russia) proposed to her. Sigrid didn't think much of them and therefore decided to teach her admirer a lesson. It's said that she drunk both of the men under the table, put them in a house, locked the door and set it on fire. Needless to say this deed had a somewhat cooling effect on her admirers and soon she got married to a more noble man, Olav Tryggvasson of Norway.

However, this marriage didn't last very long as she didn't accept the christian faith. According to the tradition the marriage come to an end due to a box on the ear (Is this really the right word for it?), something which Olav soon would regret deeply.

Sigrid soon got married to Sven Tveskägg of Denmark and to get revenge on Olav she talked her husband, son and Olof (later to be called Olof Skötkonung into a war against the king of norway. As a result Olav Tryggvasson was killed at the batle of Svolder.

There is some dispute over the existence of Sigrid. Some historians says that she is only a myth from the Icelandic sagas. Instead Erik Segersäll was supposed to have married a Slavonic Princess named Gunhild which later married Sven Tveskägg.