The ''Swedish Chronicle'' (''Vetus chronicon sveciae prosaicum'' or ''Prosaiska krönikan'') is a mid-15th century chronicle on a nation called

Getae The Getae ( ) or Gets ( ; grc, Γέται, singular ) were a Thracian-related tribe that once inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube, in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania. Both the singular form ''Get'' an ...

(''gethe''),

Goths The Goths ( got, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰, translit=''Gutþiuda''; la, Gothi, grc-gre, Γότθοι, Gótthoi) were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe ...

(''gotha''),

Geat The Geats ( ; ang, gēatas ; non, gautar ; sv, götar ), sometimes called ''Goths'', were a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the late Middle Ages. They are one of th ...

s (''götha'') and eventually Swedes (''swenske''). It says that it is compiled from ancient chronicles. It includes a line of kings from the House of

Yngling The Ynglings were a dynasty of kings, first in Sweden and later in Norway, primarily attested through the poem ''Ynglingatal''. The dynasty also appears as Scylfings (Old Norse ''Skilfingar'') in ''Beowulf''. When ''Beowulf'' and ''Ynglingatal'' ...

which appears to be based on the Norwegian ''

Historia Norwegiæ ''Historia Norwegiæ'' is a short history of Norway written in Latin by an anonymous monk. The only extant manuscript is in the private possession of the Earl of Dalhousie, and is now kept in the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh. The manu ...

'' and the Danish ''

Chronicon Lethrense ''Chronicon Lethrense'' (Danish: ''Lejrekrøniken'' English: ''Chronicle of Lejre/Leire'') is a small Danish medieval work from the 12th century, written in Latin. Themes Unlike ''Chronicon Roskildense'', which deals primarily with information ...

'', but the compiler seems to have ''corrected'' the information.

Line of kings

The first part of its line of Swedish kings: *Inge (

Yngvi Old Norse Yngvi , Old High German Ing/Ingwi and Old English Ingƿine are names that relate to a theonym which appears to have been the older name for the god Freyr. Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz was the legendary ancestor of the Ingaevones, or more acc ...

, here the son of

Filimer Filimer was an early Gothic king, according to Jordanes. He was the son of Gadareiks and the fifth generation since Berig settled with his people in Gothiscandza. When the Gothic nation had multiplied Filimer decided to move his people to Scythia ...

) *Neorch and Froe ( Njord and

Freyr Freyr (Old Norse: 'Lord'), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with kingship, fertility, peace, and weather. Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden an ...

) *Urbar (made his son

Dan Dan or DAN may refer to: People * Dan (name), including a list of people with the name ** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark * Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa **Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoir ...

king of Denmark and his son Nore the king of Norway) *Östen *Solen (was drowned in a vat of mead like

Fjölnir Fjölnir ( non, Fjǫlnir ) is a legendary king in Norse mythology said to have been the son of Freyr (Frey) and his consort Gerðr (Gertha). The name appears in a variety of forms, including Fiolnir, Fjölner, Fjolner, and Fjolne. He was claime ...

) *Swerker * Valand *Wisbur *Domalde (was sacrificed to a troll named Ceres) *Domar *Attila (made the Danes accept the

dog king The dog (''Canis familiaris'' or ''Canis lupus familiaris'') is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from the extinct Pleistocene wolf, and the modern wolf is the dog's nearest living relative. Do ...

as their king) *Dyguer *Dager *Alrik (was killed by his brother Erik with a rein) *Ingemar (was hanged by his wife in

Agnafit Agnafit (Old Norse: ) or ''Agnefit'' was the name of a location where Lake Mälaren met the Baltic Sea. In the 14th century, an addition to the ''Historia Norwegiae'' described Agnafit as being where Stockholm had been founded. Some say that it was ...

) *Ingeller (was killed by his own brother) *Järunder *Hakon (killed

Harald Wartooth Harald Wartooth or ''Harold Hiltertooth'' (Old Norse: Haraldr hilditǫnn; Modern Swedish and Danish: Harald Hildetand; Modern Norwegian: ''Harald Hildetann''; flourished 8th century) was a legendary king of Denmark who is mentioned in several trad ...

at the

Battle of Brávellir The Battle of Brávellir or the Battle of Bråvalla was a legendary battle, said to have taken place c.770, that is described in the sagas as taking place on the Brávellir between Sigurd Hring, king of Sweden and the Geats of Västergötland, and ...

and became so old that he had to feed by suckling a horn) *Eghil *Oktar (killed by his brother Faste) *Adhel (died when he fell off his horse during the sacrifices) *Östen (was arsoned to death) *Ingemar *Bräntemundher (was killed by his own brother Sigurd in Närke) *Ingeller (was so afraid of Ivar the far-travelled that he arsoned himself to death) *Olaffver trätelge *Inge (died in battle) *

Erik Weatherhat Eric Weatherhat () was a legendary king of Sweden. According to the '' Swedish Chronicle'', the cognomen ''Weatherhat'' refers to the accommodating wind he enjoyed whilst pillaging in the Baltic Sea region. His place in the Swedish line of kin ...

Eric the Victorious Eric the Victorious (Old Norse: ''Eiríkr inn sigrsæli'', Modern Swedish: ''Erik Segersäll''; c. 945 – c. 995) was a Swedish monarch as of around 970. Although there were earlier Swedish kings, he is the first Swedish king in a consecutive reg ...

*Stenkil of Good Harvests (the first Christian king) *

Olof Skötkonung Olof Skötkonung, (Old Norse: ''Óláfr skautkonungr'') sometimes stylized as ''Olaf the Swede'' (c. 980–1022), was King of Sweden, son of Eric the Victorious and, according to Icelandic sources, Sigrid the Haughty. He succeeded his father in ...

Sources and external links

The Swedish Chronicle, in the original language (rtf)

Anderson, Carl Edlund. ''Formation and Resolution of Ideological Contrast in the Early History of Scandinavia''. Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic (Faculty of English)
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