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SlveSlve was a sea-king who conquered Sweden by burning the Swedish king sten to death inside his hall. The Heimskringla relates that he was the son Hgne of Njardey, and that he had his home in Jutland (however, according to the older source Historia Norwegiae, he was Geatish). He pillaged in the Baltic Sea and at night they made shore in the hundred of Lofond/Lovund (perhaps Lovn or the Lagunda Hundred) where they sourrounded a house and set it on fire killing everybody inside. In the house there was a feast where the Swedish king sten was invited. Then Slve and his men arrived in Sigtuna (Old Sigtuna) and declared that the Swedes had to accept him as king. The Swedes refused and fought Slve for eleven days until they lost. Slve then ruled Sweden until the Swedes rebelled and killed him. Historia Norwegiae only relates that the Geats burnt sten and his people to death inside his house. Slvi also appears in Half's saga, of which there is a version from the year 1300. This saga relates that Slvi was the son of Hgne the rich of Njardey fyrir Naumundalsminni in Norway and that he was the brother of Hild the Slender. Slvi's brother-in-law, Hjorleiv, was the king of Hordaland and Rogaland and Hjorleiv killed Hreidar, the king of Zealand. Then Hjorleiv put Slvi as the jarl of Zealand. Later in the saga, Slvi is no longer the jarl of Zealand, but the king of Sweden. Hjorleiv had a son named Half (after whom the saga is named), and after the Norwegian king Asmund had killed Half, a couple of his champions go to Sweden and king Slvi (til svjar ; fru eir ... fund Slva konungs) (see also Gard Agdi). Slvi is also mentioned in a few other sources, but none of them relate of his Danish and Swedish dominions. He was succeded by Ingvar of the Swedish royal dynasty, the House of Yngling. Primary sources Secondary sources Nerman, B. Det svenska rikets uppkomst. Stockholm, 1925.
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