Svanhild Eysteinsdóttir

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Svanhild.
Snorre names "Snahild, a daughter of Earl Eystein" as one of the wives of King Harald [Snorre, Harald Harfager's Saga, 21]

• Background Information: ¹⁶⁰
Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 243A:17, Harold "fairhair" born circa 848/52 was King of Vestfold & the first King of Norway. One of his many wifes and concubines was Swanhild, daughter of Eystein Glumra, Jarl of Uplands, father of Ragvald, "the Wise," Jarl of More and father of Ganger Rolf, the Viking," first Duke of Normandy.

Svanhild married Harald Hálfdanarson "Fairhair." King Of Norway, son of Hálfdan "Swarti" Gudrødsson King of Vestfold and Ranghilda Sigurdsdóttir. ⁴⁹⁵(Harald Hálfdanarson "Fairhair." King Of Norway was born about 858, died in 933 and was buried in Haugar in Karmtsund.)