Erik Björnsson was supposedly one of the sons of

Björn Ironside according to Norse legends, was a Norse Viking chief and Swedish king. According to the 12th- and 13th-century Scandinavian histories, he was the son of notorious Viking king Ragnar Lodbrok and lived in the 9th century, between 855 and 858. Björ ...

and a

legendary king of Sweden The legendary kings of Sweden () according to legends were rulers of Sweden and the Swedes who preceded Eric the Victorious and Olof Skötkonung, the earliest reliably attested Swedish kings. Though the stories of some of the kings may be embel ...

of the

House of Munsö The House of Munsö (), also called the House of Björn Ironside (Swedish: ), the House of Uppsala (Swedish: ) or simply the Old dynasty (Swedish: ), is the earliest reliably attested royal dynasty of Sweden, ruling during the Viking Age. None of ...

, who would have lived in the late 9th century. One of the few surviving Scandinavian sources that deal with Swedish kings from this time is '' Hervarar saga''. The saga is from the 12th or 13th century and is thus not considered a reliable historical source for the 9th century. It says:

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