Editing Yrsa (section)

===''Gesta Danorum''===
The ''[[Gesta Danorum]]'' (Book 2) reports that Helgo was the brother of the Danish King Ro, but whereas Ro was king of the Danish lands, Helgo had inherited the sea. One day during his sea roving, arrived at [[Thurø]], where he found and raped the young girl Thora, who became pregnant with '''Urse'''. When Helgo, after many years, returned to Thurø, Thora avenged her lost virginity by sending Urse to Helgo who, unknowingly, raped his own daughter. This resulted in Roluo Kraki.

During a Swedish invasion, Ro was killed by [[Hothbrodd]], the King of Sweden. Helgo avenged his brother's death and made the Swedes pay tribute. However, he then chose to commit suicide due to his shame for his [[Uppsala, Sweden|incestuous]] relationship with Urse, and their son Roluo Kraki succeeded him. Athislus, the new King of Sweden, thought that the tribute to the [[Daner]] might be smaller if he married the Danish king's mother, and so took Urse for his queen. However, after some time, Urse was so upset with the Swedish king's greediness that she thought out a ruse to run away from the king and at the same time liberate him of his wealth. She incited Athislus to rebel against Roluo, and arranged so that Roluo would be invited and promised a wealth in gifts.

When the banquet had lasted for three days, Urse and Roluo escaped from [[Uppsala, Sweden|Uppsala]], early in the morning in carriages where they had put all the Swedish king's treasure. In order to lessen their burden, and to occupy any pursuing warriors they spread gold in their path, although there was a rumour that she only spread gilded copper. When Athislus, who was pursuing the escapers saw that a precious ring was lying on the ground, he bent down to pick it up. Roluo was pleased to see the King of Sweden bent down, and escaped in the ships with his mother.

This account is more elaborate than that of ''[[Chronicon Lethrense]]'' and ''[[Annales Lundenses]]''. Helgo is the same personage as [[Halga|Helghe/Halga]]. His brother the Danish King Ro is the same as [[Hroðgar]], Roluo is the same as [[Hroðulf]]/Rolf Krage, and the Swedish King Athislus is the same as [[Eadgils]], the Swedish king of ''Beowulf''. Yrse is here called Urse, and the story of her son fleeing the Swedish king with all his treasure is also found in the following accounts. It is noteworthy that all the Danish sources, ''Chronicon Lethrense'', ''Annales Lundenses'' and ''[[Gesta Danorum]]'' differ on where Halga found Yrsa, but make her Danish. The [[Iceland]]ic sources that follow make her a [[Saxons|Saxon]], on the other hand, and not Danish.
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