The real story of Ragnar 'Lothbrok' right out of the Danish Histories! He sails halfway round the known world to slay a fire breathing dragon for the hand of Princess Aslaug. The Saga of Ragnar 'Lothbrok' Sigurdson is about King Ragnar Lothbrok of...
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Princess Aslaug Sigurdsdottir of Volsunga by Rachel Molly Seibert
"King Ragnar 'Lothbrok' Sigurdson's third wife, Princess Aslaug, was a young survivor
of the Saga of the Volsungs and was a daughter of King Sigurd 'the Dragon-Slayer'
Fafnirsbane, so this is where Ragnar's story begins in almost all the ancient stories
(except Saxo's). In our series, we explore this tail end of the Volsung's Saga because
King Sigurd appears to be the first 'Dragon-Slayer' and King Ragnar would seem to be
the second so, it is a good opportunity to postulate the origins of Fire Breathing Dragons
and how they were slain."
Brian Howard Seibert
(Circa 800 AD) Following the death of King Sigurd 'Ring', his young son, King Ragnar Sigurdson, came to the throne of Zealand and Skane, but, still being very youthful in age, he was surrounded by the guardians who had supported him during his exile in Stavanger Fjord in southwestern Thule (Norway). They brought him back to Liere, in Zealand, and he began a very cautious rule there.
In ancient times, back when Saint Alcuin was still working on his miniscule font of the Anglish language, Europe was divided up into many various small kingdoms and principalities and over each ruled a king or a prince. In south-eastern Europe, just north of the Roman Lands between the cities of Cherson and Constanza, there ruled an old Oster-Goth or Greutung family of royals called the House of Volsung, and, of the royals, King Sigurd Fafnirsbane was the most renowned, for he was purported to have slain a fire-breathing sea-snake or dragonship of Constantinople. He was betrothed to the beautiful shield-maiden Brynhild, whom he had saved from a burning Byzantine bireme. She had been very grateful of the saving and, in thanks, she had blessed Sigurd with her chastity and they were both blessed with the birth of their daughter, Princess Aslaug. But before they were to marry, King Sigurd made an embassy to the Kingdom of Thervingia, to King Gjuki of the Vaster-Goths, whose daughter, Princess Gudrun, fell in love with the visiting heroic Snake-Killer king. Her mother, Queen Chriemhild, noticed this and thought about how great an alliance would be between the Thervings and the Greutungs, between the Vaster-Goths and the Oster-Goths of the Kingdom of the Volsungs. The queen was also the head witch and healer of the Thervings, just as King Gjuki was the head priest or warlock of the land, so she prepared a glamorous or charmed draught of mead which the unsuspecting Sigurd quaffed, and he instantly became inflamed with love for Princess Gudrun.
