Predecessors
According to clergyman Adam of Bremen who came from Germany to record the history of the Archbishops of Bremen, in the 890s king Helghe was deposed and Denmark was conquered by Swedes led by Olof the Brash. Along with two of his sons, Gyrd and Gnupa, he took the realm "by force of arms," and they ruled it together, thus founding the House of Olaf in Denmark. Adam reports that they were followed by a Sigtrygg. That he was son of Gnupa by a Danish noblewoman Asfrid, is shown by on two runestones near Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein erected by his mother after his death.
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