Agne

Agne
Agne, English: Agni, Hogne or Agni Skjlfarbondi was a mythological king of Sweden, of the House of Yngling. Snorri Sturluson relates that he was the son of Dag the Wise, and he was mighty and famous. He was also skilled in many ways. One summer, he went to Finland with his army where he pillaged. The Finns gathered a vast host under a chief named Frosti.[1] A great battle ensued which Agne won and many Finns were killed together with Frosti. Agne then subdued all of Finland with his army, and captured not only great booty but also Frosti's daughter Skjalf and her kinsman Logi.[2] Agne returned to Sweden and they arrived at Stocksund (Stockholm) where they put up their tent on the side of the river where it is flat. Agne had a torc which had belonged to Agne's great-great-great-grandfather Visbur. Agne married Skjalf who became pregnant with two sons, Erik and Alrik. Skjalf asked Agne to honour her dead father Frosti with a great feast, which he granted. He invited a great many guests, who gladly arrived to the now even more famous Swedish king. They had a drinking competition in which Agne became very drunk. Skjalf saw her opportunity and asked Agne to take care of Visbur's torc which was around his neck. Agne bound it fast around his neck before he went to sleep. The king's tent was next to the woods and was under King Agni's Barrow just southeast of Sollentuna Station in Sweden the branches of a tall tree for shade. When Agne was (photo: Jacob Truedson Demitz) fast asleep, Skjalf took a rope which she attached to the torc. Then she had her men remove the tent, and she threw the rope over a bough. Then she told her men to pull the rope and they hanged Agne avenging Skjalf's father. Skjalf and her men ran to the ships and escaped to Finland, leaving her sons behind. Agne was buried at the place and it is presently called Agnafit, which is east of the Tauren (the Old Norse name for Sdertrn) and west of Stocksund.
Agne being hanged by his wife Skjalf. Artwork by Hugo Hamilton, 1830

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at tel ek undr, ef Agna her Skalfar r at skpum ttu, ar ging me gullmeni Loga ds at lopti hf svalan hest Signjar vers. [3][4]

How do ye like the high-souled maid, Who, with the grim Fate-goddess' aid, Avenged her sire? made Swithiod's king Through air in golden halter swing? How do ye like her, Agne's men? Think ye that any chief again Will court the fate your chief befell, [5][6] To ride on wooden horse to hell?.

Ynglingatal then gives Alrekr and Eirkr as Agne's successors. The Historia Norwegi presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation:
Qui [Dagr] genuit Alrik; hunc frater suus Erikr freno percussit ad mortem. Alricr autem genuit Hogna; istum uxor sua juxta locum Agnafit, qui nunc Stokholmr dicitur, propriis manibus interfecit suspendendo ad [7] arborem cum catena aurea. Cujus filius Ingialdr [...] This man [Dag] engendered Alrek, who was beaten to death with a bridle by his brother, Eirik. Alrek was father to Agne, whose wife dispatched him with her own hands by hanging him on a tree with a [8] golden chain near a place called Agnafit. His son, Ingjald, [...]

Agne is incorrectly called Hogne. Unlike Ynglingatal, Historia Norwegi does not give Dagr as Agne's predecessor, but Alrekr. Instead Alrekr is Agne's predecessor and Agne is succeeded by Yngvi (incorrectly called Ingialdr). The even earlier source slendingabk cites the line of descent in Ynglingatal and it gives the same line of succession as Historia Norwegi: xii Alrekr. xiii Agni. xiiii Yngvi.[9] The location indicated by Snorri Sturluson as the place of Agne's death has a barrow called Agnehgen (Agne's barrow) in Lillhersby. The barrow was excavated by Oxenstierna and dated to c. 400.[10]

Notes
[1] This chief has the same name as the Jotun Frosti who was the father of Snr the Old, and consequently Agne's great-great-great-great-grandfather. [2] In the older Ynglingatal only her kinsman, but in Heimskringla he was her brother, which seems to be a mistake by Snorri Sturluson. [3] Ynglinga saga at Norrne Tekster og Kvad (http:/ / www. heimskringla. no/ original/ heimskringla/ ynglingasaga. php) [4] A second online presentation of Ynglingatal (http:/ / www. home. no/ norron-mytologi/ sgndok/ kvad/ yngli. htm) [5] Laing's translation at the Internet Sacred Text Archive (http:/ / www. sacred-texts. com/ neu/ heim/ 02ynglga. htm) [6] Laing's translation at Northvegr (http:/ / www. northvegr. org/ lore/ heim/ 001_05. php) [7] Storm, Gustav (editor) (1880). Monumenta historica Norwegi: Latinske kildeskrifter til Norges historie i middelalderen, Monumenta Historica Norwegiae (Kristiania: Brgger), p. 99 [8] Ekrem, Inger (editor), Lars Boje Mortensen (editor) and Peter Fisher (translator) (2003). Historia Norwegie. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 8772898135, p. 77. [9] Guni Jnsson's edition of slendingabk (http:/ / www. heimskringla. no/ original/ islendingesagaene/ islendingabok. php) [10] The entry Agne in Ohlmarks, ke. (1982). Fornnordiskt lexikon. Tiden. ISBN 91-550-2511-0

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Primary sources
Ynglingatal Ynglinga saga (part of the Heimskringla) Historia Norwegiae

Secondary sources
Nerman, B. Det svenska rikets uppkomst. Stockholm, 1925.
Agne House of Yngling Precededby Mythological king of Sweden Succeededby Dag the Wise Alrek and Eirk

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Agne Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=580204817 Contributors: Alvestrand, Andreas Kaganov, Berig, CLW, Closedmouth, CommonsDelinker, DVdm, Drieakko, Fred J, Haukurth, Jalo, Kbh3rd, Koavf, KuatofKDY, Magioladitis, Megan1967, Mirv, Opera hat, Pearle, Sardanaphalus, Scine100, SergeWoodzing, Tabletop, Wiglaf, Woohookitty, Zerobutt, 7 anonymous edits

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