The semi-legendary kings of Sweden are the long line of Swedish kings who preceded Eric the Victorious, according to sources such as the Norse Sagas, Beowulf, Rimbert, Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, but who are of disputed historicity because many of them appear in more or less unreliable sources.

and another is called Sardaukar Victorious ; the article goes on to say that he ended his life by suicide, unable to adjust to new realities.

The motobombas strike no targets, one of the flight-deck bombs is dropped onto the deck of HMS Victorious but breaks up and fails to explode, and the SM. 79 drone goes out of control and flies inland to crash in Algeria.

Victorious after the battle, the Ymir then goes on a rampage, smashing through buildings.

Phoedus, on his way back home, received the news that a daughter was born to him, and decided to name her Nicostrate (" Victorious Army ").

She also had a guest-starring role on the Disney show, Shake It Up, portraying a cranky, mean elderly woman in a retirement home ( once again as same character ), as well as a guest-starring role on the Nickelodeon show, Victorious as Robbie's cranky grandmother who needed Robbie's help with the internet.

1016 ), perhaps married firstly with Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden, and later wife of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, by whom she is said to have been mother of Canute the Great, King of Denmark, Norway and England.

1016 ), married first to Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden and later to Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark.

* Eric the Victorious, a king of Sweden whose dynasty is the first known to have ruled as kings of the nation.

* Upon the death of Eric the Victorious, he is succeeded by his son Olof Skötkonung as the first baptized king of Sweden.

According to Adam, Sweyn was sent into exile by his father's German friends and deposed in favour of king Eric the Victorious of Sweden, whom Adam wrote ruled Denmark until his death in 994 or 995.

Adam of Bremen in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum is unique in equating Cnut's mother ( for whom he also produces no name ) with the former queen of Sweden, wife of Eric the Victorious and by this marriage mother of Olof Skötkonung.

* Eric the Victorious becomes the first king of Sweden.

* probable – Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden 970 – 995

As early as the 1st century, Tacitus wrote that the Suiones had a king, but the order of succession to the later historic kings of Sweden, before King Eric the Victorious ( died 995 ), is only known by what is accounted for in the historically controversial Norse sagas ( see Mythical kings of Sweden and Semi-legendary kings of Sweden ).

The first undisputed king of Sweden was Eric the Victorious, who lived around 970 – 994.

Olof Skötkonung ( Old Swedish: Olawær Skotkonongær, Old Icelandic: Óláfr sænski ), also known as Olaf Eiríksson ( c. 980 – 1022 ) was King of Sweden, son of Eric the Victorious and, according to Icelandic sources, Sigrid the Haughty.

Sometimes Eric the Victorious is referred to as either King Eric V or VI, modern inventions based on counting backwards from Eric XIV ( 1560 – 68 ), who adopted his numeral according to a fictitious history of Sweden.

Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigríð Storråda, is a queen appearing in Norse sagas as wife, first of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, then Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark.

* Adam of Bremen writes almost a century later that a Polish princess-the sister or daughter of Boleslaw I of Poland-was the wife of Eric the Victorious and by this marriage the mother of Olof Skötkonung of Sweden, before she became mother of Canute the Great and Harold II of Denmark in her second marriage with Sweyn.

Rulers of history and legend before Eric the Victorious ( died 995 or 996 ) have been categorized under Mythological kings of Sweden or Semi-legendary kings of Sweden and some of their family members under People in Norse mythology and legends-see under Swedish monarchy.

Johannes Magnus invented a list of kings of Sweden with six Erics before Eric the Victorious, where he started counting from Jordanes ' Berig as Eric I.

Semi-legendary kings of Sweden contains people from before the reign of King Eric the Victorious ( died in 995 or 996 ).

Then he went to Sweden and struck a deal with Helgi a red-haired courtier of king Eric the Victorious.

Gesta Danorum ( book 10 ), Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa and Eyrbyggja saga relate that in the early 980s, the exiled Swedish prince Styrbjörn the Strong brought the Jomsvikings to a devastating defeat against Styrbjörn's uncle Eric the Victorious at the Battle of the Fýrisvellir, Uppsala, in 984 or 985, while trying to take the crown of Sweden by force of arms.

The Battle of Fýrisvellir was a battle for the throne of Sweden which was fought in the 980s on the plain called Fýrisvellir, where modern Uppsala is situated, by King Eric the Victorious and his nephew Styrbjörn the Strong.

It later appears prominently in the title of Joshua Barnes's The History of that Most Victorious Monarch, Edward IIId, King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, and First Founder of the Most Noble Order of the Garter: Being a Full and Exact Account Of the Life and Death of the said King: Together with That of his Most Renowned Son, Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquitain, Sirnamed the Black-Prince ( 1688 ).

* Þórvaldr Hjaltason ( later 10th century ), a skald of king Eric the Victorious

It is based on Davis ' 1961 play Purlie Victorious, which was later made into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days!

Eleven years later he was freed, and was sometimes seen in beggar's rags and wooden sandals ;— sad contrast to his high-sounding name, al-Qahir bi ’ llahi, " Victorious by the will of God.

The book portrays the political situation of Europe in the later Viking Age, Andalusia under Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, Denmark under Harold Bluetooth, followed by the struggle between Eric the Victorious and Sweyn Forkbeard, Ireland under Brian Boru, England under Ethelred the Unready, and the Battle of Maldon, all before the backdrop of the gradual Christianisation of Scandinavia, contrasting the pragmatic Norse pagan outlook with the exclusiveness of Islam and Christianity.

He was posted to the shore establishment HMS Dryad later that year and then served in the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious and then the frigate HMS Scarborough over the next two years.

Whereas Millat, despite his earlier womanizing and drinking, eventually becomes an angry fundamentalist and part of a Muslim brotherhood known as the Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation ( or KEVIN ).

Victorious, Edgar, the oldest of the three, became king in 1097.

Tiberius was forced to stop his campaign against Maroboduus and recognise him as king and to send his eight legions ( VIII Augustan, XV Apollonian, XX Victorious Valerian, XXI Predator, XIII Twin, XIV Twin, XVI Gallic and an unknown unit ) to crush the rebellion in the Balkans.

As widow of Eric the Victorious, she held many great estates, and was living with her son Olav the Swede, when her foster-brother Harald Grenske, a king in Vestfold sought her hand.

At that time, king Eric X married princess Richeza of Denmark, daughter of the late Valdemar I of Denmark, and sister of the then reigning Valdemar II the Victorious.

Agathocles issued a series of " pedigree " dynastic coins, probably with the intent to advertise his lineage and legitimize his rule, linking him to Alexander the Great, a king Antiochus Nikator ( Greek: " Νικάτωρ " " Victorious ", probably intended is Antiochus III ), the founder of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom Diodotus and his son Diodotus II, Euthydemus, Pantaleon, and Demetrius.

Styrbjörn the Strong ( Old Norse Styrbjörn Sterki ) ( died c. 985 ) was, according to late Norse sagas, the son of the Swedish king Olof, and the nephew of Olof's co-ruler and successor Eric the Victorious, who defeated and killed Styrbjörn at the Battle of Fyrisvellir.

The sagas, such as the Hervarar saga, contain extensive information on this dynasty for as many as 10 generations, but although, some of the 9th century kings are held to be historical, modern Swedish historiography begins it with the late 10th c. king Eric the Victorious.

The king Björn, who was the father of Eric the Victorious, according to the sagas, is not accepted as historical by critical historians, unlike another 10th century king named Emund Eriksson who appears in the work of Adam of Bremen.

Antialcidas Nikephoros " the Victorious " was a Western Indo-Greek king of the Eucratid Dynasty, who reigned from his capital at Taxila.

* Aud Haakonsdottir, married the Swedish king Eric the Victorious, according to Yngvars saga víðförla

Epander's silver drachms portray the king in diadem with a reverse of Athena fighting which was the type of Menander I. Epander probably claimed ancestry from this important king, but his epithet Nikephoros ( Victorious ) was unique to kings using this reverse: their title was usually Soter ( Saviour ).

Archebius Dikaios Nikephoros " The Just / Follower of the Dharma and Victorious " was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the area of Taxila.

According to one theory, prominently held by Otto von Friesen and Elena Mel ' nikova, Ingvar's saga has transmitted his origin correctly, and so he was the son of the Varangian Eymundr, who in turn was the son of a Swedish chieftain named Áki and the daughter of the Swedish king Eric the Victorious.

Antimachus II Nikephoros " The Victorious " was an Indo-Greek king.

* Eric the Victorious, king around 970