Ulfhild (daughter of Hadding)

Also known as: Ulfhild · Role: Hadding's daughter · First appears: Book One · Part 11

In Book One · Part 11, Hadding’s daughter Ulfhild was married to Guthorm. She urged him to kill her father, saying she preferred the name of queen to that of princess. In Book One · Part 12, she prepared a feast for Hadding and persuaded Guthorm to join a treacherous plot against him, but Hadding thwarted the attack and turned it against its deviser.

By Book Two · Part 4, Ulfhild had married Ubbe, the brother-in-law who seized Denmark while serving as deputy. Ragnar took her from Ubbe and forced her to marry his friend Scot. When Scot would not heed her, she hired men to kill him in his sleep; he escaped his bed and cut down the attackers. In Book Two · Part 7, some relate that Ulfhild gave her brother Frode a coat no steel could pierce.