Sorle
Family: Swedes · Role: king chosen in Ragnar's stead · First appears: Book Nine · Part 4
Life events
- Sorle's slander led to Ragnar's sons being robbed of their inheritance.(Book Nine · Part 4 · 📍 Sweden)
- With: Ragnar Lodbrog
- “and also heard that his own sons, owing to the slander of Sorle, the king chosen in his stead, had been robbed of their inheritance.”
- Ragnar and his allies defeated Sorle and Starkad in combat.(Book Nine · Part 4 · 📍 Sweden)
- With: Ragnar Lodbrog Biorn Ironsides Fridleif (son of Ragnar) Radbard (son of Ragnar) Starkad (champion of Sorle)
- “Sorle met him with his army, and offered him the choice between a public conflict and a duel; and when Ragnar chose personal combat, he sent against him Starkad, a champion of approved daring, with his band of seven sons, to challenge and fight with him. Ragnar took his three sons to share the battle with him, engaged in the sight of both armies, and came out of the combat triumphant.”
- Ragnar attacked and slew Sorle.(Book Nine · Part 5)
- With: Ragnar Lodbrog
- “he attacked and slew Sorle with the entire forces he was leading.”
Book Nine · Part 4
- enemies with Ragnar Lodbrog “Sorle met him with his army, and offered him the choice between a public conflict and a duel; and when Ragnar chose personal combat, he sent against him Starkad, a champion of approved daring, with his band of seven sons, to challenge and fight with him.”
Book Nine · Part 5
- enemies with Ragnar Lodbrog “This victory emboldened Ragnar to hope that he could overcome any peril, and he attacked and slew Sorle with the entire forces he was leading.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.