Editing Swerting (section)

===''Gesta Danorum''===
[[Image:Martial Exercises of Starkater - Olaus Magnus 1555.jpg|380px|thumb|right|Starkad meets Ingellus with a mistress (probably Swerting's daughter), from Olaus Magnus' ''Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus'' (1555).]]

There is also a second version in ''[[Gesta Danorum]]'', concerning the adventures of [[Starkad]], and which is based on the old warrior who restarted the conflict between the Heaðobards and the Danes.<ref name="nordisk"/> The Danish king [[Frotho IV|Frotho]] (Froda) was killed through treachery by a Saxon named Swerting (Swertingus) (cf. the Swedish earl, above). Frotho's son Ingellus (Ingeld) lived a wanton life and married one of Swerting's daughters. This angered Starkad so much that he enlisted at the Swedish king [[Halfdan]]'s (Haldanus) court instead. As Ingellus continued his sinful life and did not do his duty to avenge his father, Starkad appeared during a banquet that Ingellus had with the sons of Swerting, his father's slayer. Starkad strongly admonished Ingellus and humiliated his queen who tried to calm Starkad with kindness and her costly ribbon. Starkad succeeded in exciting Ingellus to kill Swerting's sons and to divorce his Saxon bride.
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