Ring (king of the Northmen)

Also known as: Ring · Role: king of the Northmen · First appears: Book Eight · Part 5

Life events

Omund invaded Ring’s province with Odd’s support, plundered Ring’s private property, and slew Ring’s kinsfolk.(Book Eight · Part 5 · 📍 Norway)
- With: Omund Odd (chief of Jather)
- “Sparing the goods of the common people, he gave the private property of Ring over to be plundered, and slew his kinsfolk; Odd also having joined his forces to Omund.”
Atyl’s forces were defeated by Ring, and Atyl fled beaten to Skaane.(Book Eight · Part 5 · 📍 Skaane)
- With: Atyl Omund
- “The order was executed with more rashness than success; and Atyl, with his power defeated and shattered, fled beaten to Skaane.”
Ring died before Omund could answer his request to become his son-in-law.(Book Eight · Part 6)
- “Before he could receive an answer he died.”

child: Esa (daughter of Ring) “At this time a considerable tribe of the Northmen (Norwegians) was governed by Ring, and his daughter Esa's great fame commended her to Omund, who was looking out for a wife.”
enemies with Omund “Omund therefore, wishing to become famous in that fashion, and to win the praise of valour, endeavoured to gain his desire by force, and sailed to Norway with a fleet, to make an attempt on the throne of Ring under plea of hereditary right.”
enemies with Odd (chief of Jather) “Odd, the chief of Jather, who declared that Ring had assuredly seized his inheritance, and lamented that he harried him with continual wrongs, received Omund kindly.”

Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.