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Note to Þjóð Yt 25I

[11] Ôsu ‘of Ása’: Earlier scholars assumed that the name of the estate of Oseberg, near the site of the great ship burial, contained the name of this queen (Rygh et al. 1897-36, VI, 223; Brøgger 1916, 50-2; Nerman 1917b, 256-7). However, earlier attestations of the p. n. have raised doubts about this derivation (Korslund 2000, 1; for other interpretations see Nyman 2003). Recent dendrochronological tests dating the grave to the year 834 have also cast doubt on whether one of the two women interred there was Ása or Álfhildr, the first wife of Guðrøðr and mother of Óláfr Geirstaðaálfr (Myhre 1992c, 274).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Brøgger, Anton Wilhelm. 1916. Borrefundet og Vestfoldkongernes graver. Videnskaps-selskapets Skrifter. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1916/1. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  3. Korslund, Frode. 2000. ‘Gårdsnavnet Oseberg’. MM, 1-6.
  4. Myhre, Bjørn. 1992c. ‘Kronologispørsmålet og ynglingeættens gravplasser’. In Christensen et al. 1992, 272-7.
  5. Nerman, Birger. 1917b. ‘Ynglingasagan i arkeologisk belysning’. Fv 12, 226-61.
  6. Nyman, Eva. 2003. ‘Oseberg: §1. Namenkundliches’. In RGA, 22, 306.

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