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Birth:          ABT  638 Uppsala, Sweden

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anund
Anund, Swedish: Bröt-Anund meaning trail-blazer Anund or Anund the Land Clearer; 
alternate names Brøt-Anundr (Old East Norse) or Braut-Önundr (Old West Norse), was 
a legendary Swedish king of the House of Yngling who reigned in the mid-seventh 
century. The name would have been Proto-Norse *Anuwinduz meaning "winning 
ancestor".[1]

In his Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson relates that Anund succeeded his father Ingvar 
on the Swedish throne, and after his father's wars against Danish Vikings and 
Estonian pirates, peace reigned over Sweden and there were good harvests. Anund 
was a popular king who became very rich, not only because of the peace and the 
good harvests but also because he avenged his father in Estonia. That country was 
ravaged far and wide and in the autumn Anund returned with great riches.

In those days Sweden was dominated by vast and uninhabited forests, so Anund 
started making roads and clearing land and vast districts were settled by Swedes. 
Consequently, he was named Bröt-Anund. He made a house for himself in every 
district and used to stay as a guest in many homes.

One autumn, King Anund was travelling between his halls (see Husbys) and came to a 
place called Himinheiðr (sky heath) between two mountains. He was surprised by a 
landslide which killed him.

After presenting this story of Anund, Snorri Sturluson quotes Þjóðólfr of Hvinir's 
Ynglingatal:

Varð ÖnundrJónakrs buraharmi heptrund Himinfjöllum,ok ofvægEistra dólgiheipt 
hrísungsat hendi kom;ok sá frömuðrfoldar beinumHögna hrörsum horfinn var.[1] We all 
have heard how Jonkur's sons,Whom weapons could not touch, with stonesWere 
stoned to death in open day,King Onund died in the same way.Or else perhaps the 
wood-grown land,Which long had felt his conquering hand,Uprose at length in deadly 
strife,And pressed out Onund's hated life.[2]  

The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's 
quotation (continuing after Ingvar):


Iste ergo genuit Broutonund, quem Sigwardus frater suus occidit in Himinheithi,[2] 
quod loci vocabulum interpretatur coeli campus. Post istum filius suus Ingialdr [...].[3]
 
Yngvar bred Braut-Ånund, whose brother, Sigurd, laid him low in Himinheid, a place-
name which means 'field of heaven'. After him his son Ingjald [...][4]
  

The original text of Ynglingatal is hard to interpret, and it only says that Anund died 
und Himinfjöllum (under the sky mountains) and that stones were implied. According to 
Historia Norwegiæ, he was murded by his brother Sigvard in Himinherthy (which the 
source says means "the fields of the sky", cœli campus. Such a place name is not 
known and Birger Nerman suggests that the original place of death was under the sky 
mountains, i.e. under the clouds (cf. the etymology of cloud). Consequently, he may 
have been killed outdoors, by his brother and with a stone. In the translation above, 
Laing has made the same interpretation as Nerman.

Thorsteins saga Víkingssonar says that Anund was not the son of Ingvar, but the son 
of his grandfather Östen. It also relates that he had a brother named Olaf who was the 
king of Fjordane.

All sources say that Anund was the father of the infamous Ingjald ill-ruler.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I00708

Parents
EYSTEINSSON Ingvar "the Tall" (ABT  616 - )
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Siblings
INGVARSSON Anund ("Braut") ("The Cultivator") (ABT  638 - )

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
ONUNDSSON Ingjald ("Braut"( ("The WIcked") (ABT  660 - )

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