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Birth:          ABT  862 Ringerike, Norway
Death:          AFT  912 

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I20826
Information copied from Wayne Iverson, World Connect db=wiversrm, rootsweb.com
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She was King Harald's fourth wife of six. He fell madly in love with the beautiful 
daughter of the Finn, Svasi, who the king had allowed to set up his tent on a slope of 
the hillside near Thoptar in the Oppland district.

Children:
Sigurd Rise
Halfdan
Gutroth
Rognvald Haraldsson Rettilbeine

She died but Harald believed she would come back to life as she retained her color. 
Finally, after 3 years the corpse was corrupt and burned. But before her body became 
livid, all kinds of worms, adders, frogs and toads and vipers crawled out of it.

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The following post-em from Curt Hofemann, curt_hofemann AT yahoo.com, adds a little 
more detail:

After giving birth to four sons for Harald, she died, but her corpse never changed, but 
was as fresh and red as when she lived. The king sat always beside her, and thought 
she would come to life again. And so it went on for three years that he was sorrowing 
over her death, and the people over his delusion.

At last Thorleif the Wise succeeded, by his prudence, in curing him of his delusion by 
accosting him thus: -- "It is nowise wonderful, king, that thou grievest over so 
beautiful and noble a wife, and bestowest costly coverlets and beds of down on her 
corpse, as she desired; but these honours fall short of what is due, as she still lies in 
the same clothes. It would be more suitable to raise her, and change her dress." As 
soon as the body was raised in the bed all sorts of corruption and foul smells came 
from it, and it was necessary in all haste to gather a pile of wood and burn it; but 
before this could be done the body turned blue, and worms, toads, newts, paddocks, 
and all sorts of ugly reptiles came out of it, and it sank into ashes. Now the king came 
to his understanding again, threw the madness out of his mind, and after that day 
ruled his kingdom as before. He was strengthened and made joyful by his subjects, 
and his subjects by him and the country by both. [Ref: Heimskringla 
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Heimskringla/harfager.html]

The Sagas are online at the Berkeley SUN site & several other places, but obviously 
Caveat Emptor.

Regards,
Curt

Parents
____ Swasi ("the Finn") (ABT  832 - AFT  862)
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Siblings
SWASISDOTTIR Snaefrid ("Snowfair") (ABT  862 - AFT  912)

Marriage To HALFDANSSON Harald I "Fairhair" ( 860 -  933)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
GUDRODSSON Halfdan "the Black" (ABT  820 -  863)
SIGURDSDOTTIR Ragnhild (ABT  830 - )

Children by HALFDANSSON Harald I "Fairhair"  860 -  933
HARALDSSON Sigurd ("Rese") (ABT  902 - ABT  937)

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