Eirik I "Blood-Axe" Over-King of Norway: Adkins-Horton Family

895 - 954 (59 years)

Generation: 1

Eirik I "Blood-Axe" Over-King of Norway was born in 895 (son of Harald I "Fairhair" Halfdansson King of Norway and Queen Ragnhild "the Mighty" Eiriksdatter of Jutland); died in 954.

Eirik married Gunhild Gormsdatter of Denmark in 922. [Group Sheet]

Children:

Gamle Eiriksson died in 955.
Gottorm Eiriksson died in 953.
Harald II "Greyskin" Eiriksson King of Norway was born on Yes, date unknown; died in 965.
Ragnfredd Joint King in Norway died after 970.
Ragnhild Eiriksdatter
Erling Eiriksson Joint King in Norway
Gudrod Eiriksson Joint King in Norway died in 999.
Sigurd "Sleva" Eiriksson

Generation: 2

2.	Harald I "Fairhair" Halfdansson King of Norway (son of Halfdan "the Black" Gudrodsson King of Vestfold). Harald married Queen Ragnhild "the Mighty" Eiriksdatter of Jutland in 894. Ragnhild died in 897. [Group Sheet]

Queen Ragnhild "the Mighty" Eiriksdatter of Jutland died in 897.

Notes:

Snorre names "Ragnhild the Mighty, a daughter of King Eirik from Jutland" as one of the wives of King Harald, commenting that "it is said that he put away nine wives" when he married her.

Children:

1. Eirik I "Blood-Axe" Over-King of Norway was born in 895; died in 954.

Generation: 3

4.
Halfdan "the Black" Gudrodsson King of Vestfold
Children:

2. Harald I "Fairhair" Halfdansson King of Norway