| Notes : The daughter of a Swedish nobelman, Sigrig married Svend Tveskæg after her first husband's death in 994. After she was insulted by King Olav Tryggvesson of Norway she inflamed Svend Tveskæg and her son Knud to war against the Norwegian monarch. Olav fell at the battle of Svold in Sep. 1000. (Svold is, According to Icelandic tradition, the narrow strait between the island of Ruegen and Pommerania in nothern Germany, but according to Adam von Bremen the battle took place further north in the Sound between Sealand and Sweden). |