Anund from Russia
Template:Short description Anund from Russia (Template:Langx) was King of Sweden around 1070 according to Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.<ref name=Nationalanund>The article Anund in Nationalencyklopedin.</ref> According to this source, Anund came from Kievan Rus',<ref name="Nationalanund"/> presumably from Aldeigjuborg. Gårdske means that he came from Gardariki which was one of the Scandinavian names for Kievan Rus'.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
As a Christian he refused to carry out the public sacrifice to the Norse gods, presumably at the Temple at Uppsala, and was consequently deposed.<ref name="Nationalanund"/> He "left the Thing in joy, for having been found worthy to suffer disgrace for the name of Jesus". This happened shortly before the completion of Adam of Bremen's chronicle in the mid-1070s.<ref>Adam av Bremen (1984), Historien om Hamburgstiftet och dess biskopar. Stockholm: Proprius, p. 252 (Book IV, Scholion 140).</ref>
A hypothesis suggests that Anund and Inge the Elder were the same person, as several sources mention Inge as a fervent Christian, and the Hervarar saga describes how Inge also was rejected for refusing to administer the blóts and that he was exiled in Västergötland.<ref name=Ingenordisk>The article Inge in Nordisk familjebok (1910).</ref>
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