Ragnvald Sigurdsson
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Ragnvald Sigurdsson (c. 750 – after 814) was a semi-legendary lord of Huseby, in
Lista Lista is a former municipality located in the old Vest-Agder county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The administrative centre was the village of Vanse where Vanse Church is located. Lista municipa ...
(modern Norway). He is best known for the marriage of his daughter, Gunnhild Ragnvaldsdatter, to Harald Granraude, king of Agder. Ragnvald also had a son, Olve Ragnvaldsson. Ragnvald is not mentioned in accounts of events after 814, when Harald Granraude was killed by
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("Harald Fair-hair"; c. 850 – c. 932), who has usually been regarded as the first
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, was a great-great-grandson of Ragnvald Sigurdsson, a great-grandson of Harald Granraude and a grandson of Gudrød the Hunter.


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* Heimskringla 750s births Year of death unknown People from Vest-Agder {{Norway-bio-stub