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Yngwi Odinsson d. 175

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birth:

title: King of Sweden, King of the Swear (Swedes)

175 death: Old Upsal, Sweden

In Historia Norwegiæ, Ingvi is the first king of Sweden, and the father of Njord, the father of Freyr: "Rex itaque Ingui, quem primum Swethiæ monarchiam rexisse plurimi astruunt, genuit Neorth, qui vero genuit Froy; hos ambos tota illorum posteritas per longa sæcula ut deos venerati sunt. Froyr vero genuit Fiolni, qui in dolio medonis dimersus est, [...]".
In the introduction to Snorri Sturluson's Edda Snorri claims again that Odin reigned in Sweden and relates: "Odin had with him one of his sons called Yngvi, who was king in Sweden after him; and those houses come from him that are named Ynglings." Snorri here does not identify Yngvi and Frey though Frey occasionally appears elsewhere as a son of Odin instead of a son of Njörd. The "Sons of Odin" being a term applied not only to literal sons but to any his male posterity (grandsons) as well as was the custom of establishing an Att/Dynasty.