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This article deals with the legendary Swedish king Ingvar. For a treatment of the name, see Ingvar (name).Ingvar or
Yngvar Harra,
Proto-Norse *
Ingu-Hariz (d. early 7th century) was the son of
Östen and reclaimed the Swedish throne for the
House of Yngling after the Swedes had rebelled against
Sölvi.
Snorri Sturluson relates in his
Ynglinga saga that King Ingvar, Östen's son, was a great warrior who often spent time patrolling the shores of his kingdom fighting Danes and pirates from the east. King Ingvar finally came to a peace agreement with the Danes and could take care of the
Estonian pirates.
He consequently started pillaging in
Estonia in retribution, and one summer he arrived at a place called Stein (see also
Sveigder). The Estonians (
sýslu kind) assembled a great army in the interior and attacked King Ingvar in a great battle. The Estonian forces were too powerful and Ingvar fell and the Swedish forces retreated. Ingvar was buried in a mound at a place called
Stone or
Hill fort (
at Steini) on the shores of Estonia (
Aðalsýsla).
Snorri then quotes a stanza from
Þjóðólfr of Hvinir's
Ynglingatal:
The
Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of
Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing after
Eysteinn):
Ynglingatal only mentions the location
Sysla (area paying tribute),
Historia Norwegiae only mentions that he died during a campaign on the island
Eycilla, i.e.
Eysysla (
Ösel). In addition to his son
Anund (Broutonund), it also adds second son named Sigvard.
Thorsteins saga Víkingssonar skips Ingvar's generation and makes his father
Östen the father of
Anund and grandfather of
Ingjald. It adds a second son to Östen named Olaf, who was the king of
Fjordane in
Norway.