9th-century Vikings

legendary king of Denmark and Sweden

Viking settler of Iceland

King of Jorvik

thumb|upright|Lagertha as imagined in a lithography by Morris Meredith Williams in 1913 Lagertha, according to legend, was a Viking ruler and shield-maiden from what is now Norway, and the onetime wife of the famous Viking Ragnar Lodbrok. Her tale was recorded by the chronicler Saxo in the 12th century. According to the historian Judith Jesch, Saxo's tales about warrior women are largely fictional; other historians wrote that they may have a basis in tales about the Norse deity Thorgerd.

Viking leader and commander of the Great Heathen Army

legendary King of Denmark

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Guthrum (, – c. 890) was King of East Anglia in the late 9th century. Originally a native of Denmark, he was one of the leaders of the "Great Summer Army" that arrived in Reading during April 871 to join forces with the Great Heathen Army, whose intentions were to conquer the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England. The combined armies were successful in conquering the kingdoms of East Anglia, Northumbria, and parts of Mercia and overran Alfred the Great's Wessex but were ultimately defeated by Alfred at the Battle of Edington in 878. The Danes retreated to their stronghold, where Alfred laid siege an

first Norseman to deliberately sail to Iceland

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Norwegian explorer

thumb|Hastein in Luna, Italy ca 859.Histoire Populaire de la France1st edition (1862), author: Ch. LahureHastein (Old Norse: Hásteinn, also recorded as Hastingus, Anstign, Haesten, Hæsten, Hæstenn or Hæsting and alias Alsting) was a Viking chieftain of the late 9th century who made several raiding voyages.

Swedish explorer

purportedly Norse rulers of Kiev

Norwegian explorer

Danish viking leader

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Guthred Hardacnutsson (Old Norse: Guðfriðr; ; born c. 844 – died 24 August 895 AD) was the second viking king of Northumbria from circa 883 until his death.

Hvitserk (Hvítserkr, "White-Shirt") was one of the sons of the legendary 9th-century Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and his wife Aslaug.

Grímr Kveldúlfsson, usually called Skalla-Grímr, was a Norwegian who lived in the ninth and tenth centuries. He is an important character in Egils saga and is mentioned in the Landnámabók.

Turgesius (died 845) (also called Turgeis, Tuirgeis, Turges, and Thorgest) was a Viking chief active in Ireland during the 9th century. Turgesius Island, the principal island on Lough Lene, is named after him. It is not at all clear whether the names in the Irish annals represent the Old Norse Thurgestr or Thorgísl. John O'Donovan and Charles Haliday independently identified him with Ragnar Loðbrók, but the identification is not generally accepted.

Son of Danish king

king of Northumbria

brothers of Rurik, a Varangian chieftain of the Rus'

Norse monarch

Norse leader

858-888

Viking leader

Viking warrior

Náttfari (Old Norse: ; Modern Icelandic: ; fl. 835–870) was a crew member who escaped his master, Garðar Svavarsson, and may have become the first permanent resident of Iceland in the 9th century. The earliest account of his story is found in the 11th century Icelandic Book of Settlements (Landnámabók).

Viking leader

Viking warrior, died 837

(775-807)

Norwegian hersir and skald of the late ninth and early tenth centuries