Hvitserk
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Hvitserk (Hvítserkr, "White-Shirt") was one of the sons of the legendary 9th-century Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and his wife Aslaug.
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- Instance of
- literary character
- Gender
- male
- Father
- Ragnar Lodbrok
- Mother
- Aslaug
- Sibling
- Ivar Ragnarsson
- Occupation
- explorer
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- cause of death
- death by burning
- date of birth
- 0750-00-00
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Hvitserk (Hvítserkr, "White-Shirt") was one of the sons of the legendary 9th-century Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and his wife Aslaug.
==Sources== Hvitserk is attested to by the Tale of Ragnar's Sons (Ragnarssona þáttr). He is not mentioned in any source that mentions Halfdan Ragnarsson, one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army that invaded the Kingdom of East Anglia in 867, or vice versa, which consequently led some scholars to suggest that they are the same individual with Hvitserk being only a nickname.
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