Ozur Toti was a 9th-century
Norwegian hersir who lived in
Halogaland. In the ''
Heimskringla'' and ''
Egil's Saga'', he is identified as the father of
Gunnhild Mother of Kings
Gunnhildr konungamóðir (''mother of kings'') or Gunnhildr Gormsdóttir, whose name is often Anglicised as Gunnhild (c. 910 – c. 980) is a quasi-historical figure who appears in the Icelandic Sagas, according to which she was ...
, the wife and queen of
Erik Bloodaxe, though elsewhere she is identified as a daughter of
Gorm the Old.
''Heimskringla'' and ''Egil's Saga'' both assert that Gunnhild was Ozur's daughter. Accounts of her early life vary between sources. ''Egil's Saga'' relates that "Eirik fought a great battle on the
Northern Dvina in
Bjarmaland, and was victorious as the poems about him record. On the same expedition he obtained Gunnhild, the daughter of Ozur Toti, and brought her home with him."
''Egil's Saga'' names two sons of Ozur, , and relates that they became
hirdmen of Erik's.
[''Egil's Saga.'' § 49 (Palsson 113).]
Notes
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*
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Magnusson, Magnus, and Hermann Palsson, trans. ''Njal's Saga''. Penguin Classics, 1960.
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*
Theodoricus monachus
Theodoric the Monk ( la, Theodoricus monachus; also ''Tjodrik munk''; in Old Norse his name was most likely ''Þórir'') was a 12th-century Norwegian Benedictine monk, perhaps at the Nidarholm Abbey. He may be identical with either Bishop Tore of ...
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9th-century Norwegian people