Fjolnir’s Family Tree

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Family

• Freyr(parent),Gerd(parent)— Marriage

  Freyr married the jötunn maiden Gerðr after sending his servant Skírnir to woo her in the Skírnismál. Their son Fjölnir became the legendary ancestor of the Yngling dynasty.

• Sveigdir(child)

  Sveigðir succeeded his father Fjölnir as king of the Yngling dynasty in Sweden, according to the Ynglinga saga and the skaldic poem Ynglingatal.

Member of

• Ynglings

  The Yngling dynasty traces its descent from Freyr through the legendary Swedish kings Fjölnir, Sveigðir, Vanlandi, Vísburr, and Domaldi, as catalogued in Ynglingatal and Ynglinga saga.

Associated with

• Fridfrodi

  Fjölnir drowned in a vat of mead while a guest at Friðfróði's great feast in Denmark. Þjóðólfr's Ynglingatal commemorates the Yngling king's death in Fróði's hall.