Ladgerda

Role: skilled amazon · First appears: Book Nine · Part 1

Life events

Ladgerda fought among the bravest at the front in Ragnar's campaign.(Book Nine · Part 1)
- With: Ragnar Lodbrog
- “Among them was Ladgerda, a skilled amazon, who, though a maiden, had the courage of a man, and fought in front among the bravest with her hair loose over her shoulders.”
Ragnar married Ladgerda, and they had two daughters and a son, Fridleif.(Book Nine · Part 2)
- With: Ragnar Lodbrog Fridleif (son of Ragnar)
- “Thus he had the maiden as the prize of the peril he had overcome. By this marriage he had two daughters, whose names have not come down to us, and a son Fridleif.”
Ragnar divorced Ladgerda.(Book Nine · Part 2)
- With: Ragnar Lodbrog
- “Ragnar divorced himself from Ladgerda;”
Ladgerda sailed to assist Ragnar with a hundred and twenty ships.(Book Nine · Part 3 · 📍 Norway)
- With: Ragnar Lodbrog
- “Ladgerda, whose early love still flowed deep and steadfast, hastily sailed off with her husband and her son. She brought herself to offer a hundred and twenty ships to the man who had once put her away.”
Ladgerda, home after the battle, murdered her husband in the night and usurped his name and sovereignty.(Book Nine · Part 3)
- “LADGERDA, when she had gone home after the battle, murdered her husband.... in the night with a spear-head, which she had hid in her gown. Then she usurped the whole of his name and sovereignty;”

married with Ragnar Lodbrog “Afterwards, changing his love, and desiring Thora, the daughter of the King Herodd, to wife, Ragnar divorced himself from Ladgerda; for he thought ill of her trustworthiness, remembering that she had long ago set the most savage beasts to destroy him.”

recipient: Ragnar Lodbrog “She brought herself to offer a hundred and twenty ships to the man who had once put her away.”
enemies with Harald (rival of Ragnar) (Ladgerda attacked Harald's side in battle.) “For she made a sally about, and flew round to the rear of the enemy, taking them unawares, and thus turned the panic of her friends into the camp of the enemy.”

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