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Tango01 | 17 Mar 2016 12:35 p.m. PST |
"Ragnar Lothbrok was undoubtedly the most colorful member of Horik's court. His surname Lothbrok means ‘hairy breeches', a reference to a curious pair of hide leggings that he wore into battle and which, he claimed, offered him some sort of magical protection. According to one legend, he made them to win his first wife, who was being held prisoner by a dragon-like serpent. To save himself from its venomous bite he boiled a pair of leather pants in pitch, and rolled them in sand. This unorthodox garment protected him long enough to dispatch the beast and claim his bride. Ragnar's actual origins are unknown. He became the hero of so many later Viking sagas that his historical accomplishments have become obscured. Stories were told to fill in the gaps, most of them charming, and almost all certainly false. His second wife Aslaug – a woman so beautiful that bakers would let their bread burn while staring at her – was, according to these stories, his equal in cunning. Ragnar, still grieving the death of his first wife, agreed to marry her if she could visit him ‘neither dressed nor undressed, neither fasting nor satisfied, and neither in company nor alone'. She won his heart by appearing naked, but covered by her long hair, having eaten an onion the previous night, and with a sheepdog for company. These stories would undoubtedly have pleased Ragnar. He claimed to be a direct descendant of the god Odin, which – since Horik claimed the same – was an oblique way of asserting his fitness for the throne. Rule in the Viking world, however, was a question of prowess more than ancestry, so in 845 Ragnar led a force of Vikings in an attack on Paris…" Full text here link Part II here link Amicalement Armand |
bsrlee | 18 Mar 2016 6:21 a.m. PST |
Rollo was much more successful, his descendants are still warming thrones around the place. |
Huscarle | 18 Mar 2016 10:27 a.m. PST |
I prefer this explanation of Ragnar Lothbrok or shitty-breeches link |
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