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Note to Anon Krm 10VIII

[3] Freyr: The mention of a King Freyr here recalls the Frø of Saxo (Saxo 2015, I, ix. 4. 1, pp. 632-3). This Frø is a king of Sweden (rex Suetie) upon whom Regnerus takes revenge for the slaying of his paternal grandfather Sywardus, ruler of Norway (Noruagie dux), and acquires his first wife, Lathgertha, as a result of her joining forces with him against Frø. This appears to be the only instance of the name Freyr being applied to a king rather than a god (LP: Freyr 1, 2).

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  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. Saxo 2015 = Friis-Jensen, Karsten, ed. 2015. Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes. Trans. Peter Fisher. Oxford Medieval Texts. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon.

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