Judging by History Channel, ruler Ragnar and his fearless wife, Lagertha, lived on the southern coast of Norway, in the small fishing village of
He was probably born in modern Norway, and later became part of the ruling class in Denmark. At some point, he became king there, and later gained control of Sweden and Finland (then a part of Sweden), as well. He was given the nickname "hairy breeches" because he favored trousers made from animal skin by his wife.
Ragnar was a powerful Lord, under Danish King Horik II. Although the visual backgrounds of the TV series appears to place him in Norway, it is more likely that he was from Denmark or Sweden. All sources agree that Ragnar died in England, although the legends of the cause of his death vary.
Ragnar Lothbrok, 820 - 905
Ubbe was born on June 3 797, in Kattegat, Noruega. Torvi was born on May 2 779, in Kattegat, Noruega.
Ragnar Lodbrok ("Ragnar hairy-breeches"), according to legends, was a Viking hero and a Swedish and Danish king.
However, while Ragnar's relationship with King Aella is likely fabricated, his relationship with his sons may not have been. Of his sons, significantly more evidence exists as to their authenticity – Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan Ragnarsson and Bjorn Ironside are all genuine figures in history.
The Vikings came from what is now known as Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway and Sweden. However, they were not one “race” as such, rather small groups from all over the region. Also, Vikings weren't just limited to Scandinavia. Historical records indicate Finnish, Estonian and Saami Vikings as well.
It serves as the domestic, Norse center of the tale. However, there is no actual village or city called Kattegat in Norway, and as far as anyone knows, there never was. This quintessential Nordic name was co-opted for the series, and the village itself was filmed on location in Wicklow County, Ireland.
Answer and Explanation: As the legend says, Ragnar Lothbrok was killed by King Aella of Northumbria, who tricked him and cast him in a pit full of venomous snakes. Yet, his burial place is not known and, as Ragnar is not a historical figure, it might be non-existent.
Bjorn's classic moniker was derived from the belief that he was rarely wounded in battle, in fact, it was thought that he was invulnerable to any wound. The largest mound on the island of Munsö located in lake Mälaren is said to be the final resting place of this legendary Viking.
It turns out that the physically fragile, yet brutal Vikings character is based on a real-life person. According to Britannica, Ivar the Boneless was a Viking chieftain who lived in Ireland in the 800's.
Ivar remains a local king in England for a long time after, ruling from York but having no children to succeed him, 'because of the way he was: with no lust or love' (4).
Burial. In the fall of 873, the Great Army arrived in Repton, where Ivar the Boneless was apparently buried. Repton, which was one of the ecclesiastical centers of England in the 9th century, was associated with the Mercian royal family. Several kings were buried here, including Aethelbald (757) and Saint Wystan (849).
No, Bjorn Ironside was not a king from Norway. His kingdom was in Sweden. However, it should be noted that during most of the Viking Age, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark were not independent nation states.
The Vikings originated in what is now Denmark, Norway and Sweden (although centuries before they became unified countries). Their homeland was overwhelmingly rural, with almost no towns. The vast majority earned a meagre living through agriculture, or along the coast, by fishing.
Despite the Queen's claims, there is no proof that Magnus is Ragnar's son. Aethelwulf remains unintimidated and dismisses the boy's parentage as irrelevant, telling Kwenthrith "you can't threaten us with him". The Queen eventually agrees to Aethelwulf's demands.
Today there is a memorial about Floki located near Ysta-Mó in Skagafjörður fjord in North Iceland.
Björn Ironside, according to Norse legends, was a Norse Viking chief and Swedish king. According to the 12th- and 13th-century Scandinavian histories, he was the son of notorious Viking king Ragnar Lodbrok and lived in the 9th century, between 855 and 858.
According to the Gesta Danorum of Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, Ragnar Lothbrok was captured by the Anglo-Saxon king Aella of Northumbria and thrown into a snake pit to die.
The events of 1066 in England effectively marked the end of the Viking Age. By that time, all of the Scandinavian kingdoms were Christian, and what remained of Viking “culture” was being absorbed into the culture of Christian Europe.
You would expect the answer to be somewhere in Scandinavia. In fact, Vikings was filmed almost entirely in Ireland's Wicklow county, the same location where Kattegat in the Vikings Valhalla Netflix series was filmed.
Our three main protagonists of Vikings: Valhalla are based on historical characters. But the thing is, their historical counterparts never actually met. Well, Leif and Freydís did, because they were indeed siblings, but they didn't know Harald, as they didn't even exist as the same time.
1. Norway. As one of the countries where Vikings originated, there's tons of Viking heritage in Norway.
The best-known Viking explorer is, of course, Lief Erikson, the first European to set foot in the Americas, beating Columbus to the continent by over 400 years.
Norwegians are descended from the Norse of the Early Middle Ages who formed a unified Kingdom of Norway in the 9th century. During the Viking Age, Norwegians and other Norse peoples conquered, settled and ruled parts of the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland.