KING RING’S BURIAL MOUND
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It was around here that the mighty Viking King, King Ring was buried around 1200 years ago. - Who was King Ring you might be asking? - Well, we will tell you - King Sigurd Ring was the King of Denmark, but also of Svitjord – modern day Sweden. The Skjoldungesaga tells us that Sigurd Ring was married to Alvhild, the daughter of King Alv of Alvheim, and that they had a son Ragnar Lodbrok. When Sigurd Ring was an old man and after Alvhild’s death, he came to Skiringssal to take part in the great blóts. There he encountered an exceptionally beautiful young women named Alvsol. She was the daughter of King Alv of Vendel. Sigurd Ring wanted to marry Alvsol, but her two brothers would not allow it. Sigurd battled with the two brothers and killed them, but he lost Alvsol anyway. She took the poison that her brothers had given her, to ensure that she would never belong to Sigurd Ring. When she died, her body was presented to him, he carried it aboard a large ship and laid her brothers next to her, he gave them a sea burial, letting the ship sail out as it burned. Sigurd Ring himself was said to have been fatally wounded after the fight with the brothers, and he was buried in a burial mound on Ringshaug beach.