Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye

Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye
Engraving from 1670
Legendary kings of Denmark
Reign	c. 873?
Predecessor	Halfdan Ragnarsson
Successor	Harthacnut I, Helge or Olof the Brash
Born	Sigurd Áslaugsson
Died	887 AD (killed in Frisia)
Dynasty	Sigfredian
Father	Ragnar Lothbrok
Mother	Áslaug
Religion	Norse Paganism

Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye (Old Norse: Sigurðr ormr í auga) or Sigurd Ragnarsson was a semi-legendary Viking warrior and Danish king active from the mid to late 9th century. According to multiple saga sources and Scandinavian histories from the 12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug.^[1] His historical prototype might have been the Danish King Sigfred who ruled briefly in the 870s.^[2] Norwegian kings' genealogies of the Middle Ages name him as an ancestor of Harald Fairhair and used his mother's supposed ancestry to Völsung in order to create an ancestry between Harald and his descendants and Odin.