Posted on 11/19/2023 6:08:15 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On an unknown date in (perhaps) the 860s, Norse raider Ragnar Lodbrok (or Ragnar Lothbrok) was allegedly put to death in the Indiana Jones-esque manner of being cast into a pit of snakes.
Ragnar is a half-legendary character who plundered France and Britain in the mid-ninth century, the heyday of Viking marauders; he’s also the lead character of the cable TV series Vikings.
He’s known from Scandinavian sagas, like the Ragnarssona Þattr, which describes Ragnar’s final battle after shipwrecking in Northumbria.....
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Yeah England was pretty good at keeping records. There’s a dead end once I got to the originator of the line that came to England from Hungary. Yeah it’s true you can only get so far just using ancestry.
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