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    Styrbjörn the Strong (Old Norse: Styrbjǫrn Sterki [ˈstyrˌbjɔrn ˈsterke]; died about 985) according to late Norse sagas was a son of the Swedish king Olof...
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    which Styrbjörn terrorized the seas. The Knýtlinga saga agrees by giving Harald as the founder of the Jomsvikings, but the story of Styrbjörn is not...
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    support its historicity. Styrbjörn the Strong was the son of the Swedish king Olof Björnsson, who had died by poisoning; Styrbjörn suspected his uncle Eric...
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  • leader Styrbjörn the Strong (Styrbjörn Starke), depicted by sagas as the son of Olaf Björnsson, king of Sweden. The sagas relate that Styrbjörn was the first...
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    submit to the renegade Swedish prince Styrbjörn the Strong of the Jomsvikings- first by giving Styrbjörn a fleet and his daughter Thyra, the second time...
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    time. The sons of Björn, Eric the Victorious, and Olaf succeeded to the kingdom after their father. Olaf was the father of Styrbjörn the Strong.(Hervarar...
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    to the Swedish prince and throne claimant Styrbjörn Starke (Styrbjörn the Strong), son of King Olof Björnsson. However Styrbjörn Starke died in the Battle...
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    was to be appointed, but the Swedes allegedly refused to accept Eric's rowdy nephew Styrbjörn as such. Eric granted Styrbjörn 60 longships in which he...
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    Fyrisvellir (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Nordisk familjebok)
    of the Battle of the Fýrisvellir between Eric the Victorious and his nephew Styrbjörn the Strong, in the 980s. According to a story about Hrólf Kraki found...
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    that the disc has no known analogue, and that the chronicle contains several anachronisms. Harald Bluetooth died at Jomsborg in 985/86. Styrbjörn the Strong...
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