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===''Skjöldunga saga''=== The ''[[Skjöldunga saga]]''<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14878 ''The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf'' by Olson, 1916, at Project Gutenberg]</ref><ref name="Nerman 1925:150">Nerman (1925:150)</ref> relates that Helgo ([[Halga]]) was the king of Denmark together with his brother Roas ([[Hroðgar]]). Helgo raped Olava, the queen of the [[Saxons]], and she bore a daughter named Yrsa. The girl later married king Adillus ([[Eadgils]]), the king of Sweden. Yrsa and Adillus had the daughter [[Skuld (princess)|Scullda]]. Some years later, Helgo attacked Sweden and captured Yrsa. He raped Yrsa, his own daughter, and took her back to Denmark, where she bore the son Rolfo ([[Hroðulf]]). After a few years, Yrsa's mother, Queen Olava, came to visit her and told her that Helgo was her own father. In horror, Yrsa returned to Adillus, leaving her son behind. Helgo died when Rolfo was eight years old, and Rolfo succeeded him, and ruled together with his uncle Roas. Not much later, Roas was killed by his half-brothers Rærecus and Frodo ([[Froda]]), whereupon Rolfo became the sole king of Denmark. In Sweden, Yrsa and Adillus married their [[Skuld (princess)|Scullda]] to the king of [[Öland]], Hiørvardus (also called ''Hiorvardus'' and ''Hevardus'', and who corresponds to [[Heoroweard]] in ''[[Beowulf]]''). As her half-brother Rolfo was not consulted about this marriage, he was infuriated and he attacked Öland and made Hiørvardus and his kingdom tributary to Denmark. Adillus requested Rolfo's aid against the Norwegian king Ale ([[Onela]]). Rolfo sent his berserkers, but when the war had been won, Adillus refused to pay. Rolfo came to Uppsala and after some adventures he could flee with Adillus' gold, helped by his mother Yrsa, and he "sowed" it on the [[Fyrisvellir]]. This account differs from ''Hrólf Kraki's saga'' in the respect that Yrsa was first peacefully married to Eadgils, and later captured by Halga, who raped her and made her pregnant with Hroðulf. In ''Hrólfr Kraki's saga'', she was first captured by Halga who had Hroðulf with him. Learning that Halga was her father, she returned to Saxland from where Eadgils kidnapped her. In ''Hrólfr Kraki's saga'', Helgi dies when more or less trying to save her from Eagdils, while the ''Skjöldunga saga'' presents her marriage with Eadgils as a happier one, and Halga died in a different war expedition.
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