Kraka
Family: Norwegians · Role: Roller's mother and Erik's stepmother · First appears: Book Five · Part 5
In Book Five · Part 5, Kraka is named as Roller’s mother and Erik Shrewd-spoken’s stepmother. In Book Five · Part 6, married to Ragnar (father of Erik), she asks Erik to help his brother, Roller, and tells him he can summon her in extreme need. She and Ragnar take the brothers by sea to Denmark.
By Book Five · Part 14, Kraka has married Brak.
Relationship record
Life events
- Kraka asked Erik to help Roller and told him he could summon her for help in extreme need.(Book Five · Part 6)
- With: Erik Shrewd-spoken Roller
- “Soon she began to sigh, and entreat Eric that he should never fail to help his brother, whose mother had heaped on him fortune so rich and strange: for by tasting a single savoury meal he had clearly attained sovereign wit and eloquence, besides the promise of success in combat.”
- Kraka and her husband took the brothers on their sea journey, and their party reached Denmark.(Book Five · Part 6 · 📍 Denmark)
- With: Ragnar (father of Erik) Erik Shrewd-spoken Roller
- “Then Kraka, accompanied by her husband, took away the brothers on their journey to the sea. They embarked in a single ship, but soon attached two others. They had already reached the coast of Denmark, when, reconnoitering, they learned that seven ships had come up at no great distance.”
- Kraka had married Brak.(Book Five · Part 14 · 📍 Norway)
- With: Brak
- “Kraka had already married one Brak.”
Book Five · Part 5
- child: Roller “Roller's mother and Erik's stepmother was named Kraka.”
- with Erik Shrewd-spoken (Kraka is Erik's stepmother.) “Roller's mother and Erik's stepmother was named Kraka.”
Book Five · Part 6
- married with Ragnar (father of Erik) “Then Kraka, accompanied by her husband, took away the brothers on their journey to the sea.”
- child: Roller “Soon she began to sigh, and entreat Eric that he should never fail to help his brother, whose mother had heaped on him fortune so rich and strange:”
Book Five · Part 14
- married with Brak “They found that Ragnar was dead, and that Kraka had already married one Brak.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.