Dag the Wise
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Dag the Wise or Dagr spaki was a mythological Swedish king of the House of Ynglings. He was the son of Dyggvi, the former king. According to legend, he could understand the speech of birds and had a s
Illustration by Gerhard Munthe (1899)
Thrall
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A thrall was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age. The status of slave contrasts with that of the freeman and the nobleman.
Dag the Wise
…these trips, Dag invaded Reidgotaland (considering the date and location, apparently Gothiscandza), in order to avenge it. There he was ambushed by a thrall and killed. The earliest two versions based on Ynglingatal, i.e. Historia Norwegiæ and Íslendingabók (see below) say that Dag was succeeded by his sons…
Erling Skjalgsson sets his thralls to day-work (Erik Werenskiold, 1899)
Beowulf's thrall steals the golden cup from the dragon (Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton, 1908)
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