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It is consequently said that in the Norse sagas, he was identified with a Swedish king Ragnar ( 770-785 ), the son of Sigurd Ring.
Among the more notable adaptations of this text are Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen, Ernest Reyer's opera Sigurd, William Morris's epic poem The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.
One of the sons of Dag the Great according to Hversu Noregr Byggðist was Óli, who was the father of Dag, the father of Óleif the father of Hring ( the old king Ring of Frithiof's Saga ), the father of Olaf, the father of Helgi, the father of Sigurd Hjort, the father of Ragnhild, who was the mother of Harald Fairhair.
Ingi ( Yngwe ) also, and Oly, Alver, Folki, all sons of Elrik ( Alrek ), embraced the service of Ring ( Sigurd Ring ); they were men ready of hand, quick in counsel, and very close friends of Ring.
Moreover, both in Icelandic sources and in the Gesta Danorum, king Sigurd Ring would become the ancestor of the houses of Ragnar Lodbrok and would thus be the semi-legendary ancestor of the House of Munsö through Björn Ironside, and the Danish royal house through Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye.
Norna-Gests þáttr has a brief mention about the king of both Denmark and Sweden, Sigurd Ring ( ruling in the mid-8th century ), fighting against invading Curonians and Kvens:
Sigurd Ring ( Sigurðr ) was not there, since he had to defend his land, Sweden ( Svíþjóð ), since Curonians ( Kúrir ) and Kvens ( Kvænir ) were raiding there.
Sigurd is based on the Scandinavian legends of the Edda Volsunga saga ( Nibelungenlied ), the same source which Richard Wagner drew upon for the libretto for his Ring cycle.
In c. 750, according to Norna-Gests þáttr from c. 1157, the king of Denmark and Sweden, Sigurd Ring, fought against the invading Curonians and Kvens in the southern part of what today is Sweden:
:" Sigurd Ring ( Sigurðr ) was not there, since he had to defend his land, Sweden ( Svíþjóð ), since Curonians ( Kúrir ) and Kvens ( Kvænir ) were raiding there.
Sigurd Hring ( Old Norse: Sigurðr hringr ( Hringr meaning ' Ring ')) ( ca 750 ) was a legendary Swedish and Danish king mentioned in many old Scandinavian sagas.
Sigurd Ring and Harald fought the Battle of the Brávellir on the plains of Östergötland where Harald and many of his men died.
The Skjöldunga saga tells that Sigurd Ring was married to Alfhild, the daughter of king Alf of Alfheim, and their son was Ragnar Lodbrok.
In the part of the Heimskringla called the Saga of Harald Fairhair, Harald Fairhair learns that the Swedish king Erik Eymundsson had enlarged Sweden westwards, until it reached the same extent as it had during king Sigurd Ring and his son Ragnar Lodbrok.
In Ragnar Lodbrok's saga, it is mentioned that Sigurd Ring and Harald Wartooth fought in the Battle of the Brávellir and that Harald fell.
In Bósa saga ok Herrauds, it is only said that Sigurd Ring, the father of Ragnar Lodbrok fought with Harald Wartooth at the Battle of the Brávellir where Harald died.
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