- Halsten Stenkilsson
Halsten Stenkilsson (
Old Icelandic : "Hallstein" [http://www.heimskringla.no/original/fornaldersagaene/hervararsaga.php "Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks", Guðni Jónsson's og Bjarni Vilhjálmsson's edition at «Norrøne Tekster og Kvad».] ] ) wasking of Sweden after his fatherStenkil 's death (1066 ), and he ruled together with his brother Inge the Elder. [http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/%7Ekyamazak/myth/norse/kershaw/Kershaw1s-hervor-and-heithrek.htm The "Saga of Hervör and Heithrek", in "Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese)", by N. Kershaw.Cambridge at the University Press, 1921.] ] citation |contribution=Halsten |title=Nationalencyklopedin |url=http://databas.bib.vxu.se:2057/jsp/search/article.jsp?i_art_id=197854] The date of his death is not known.Little is known of his time as king. In a "scholia" in the work of
Adam of Bremen , he is reported to have been elected king after the death of two pretenders, [http://runeberg.org/nfbj/0636.html The article "Halsten" in "Nordisk familjebok" (1909).] ] but deposed after a short while. The information that he ruled together with his brother Inge comes from a papal letter from1081 , byPope Gregory VII , where Halsten and his brother are named with the initials "A" and "I", and where they are called kings ofVästergötland ("rege wisigothorum" [Kaliff, A. (2001) "Gothic Connections, Contacts between eastern Scandinavia and the southern Baltic coast 1000BC-500AD". Occasional Papers in Archaeology 26. Uppsala. p. 16.] ). His co-rulership with his brother Inge is also mentioned in the "Hervarar saga " [http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/%7Ekyamazak/myth/norse/kershaw/Kershaw1s-hervor-and-heithrek.htm The "Saga of Hervör and Heithrek", in "Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese)", by N. Kershaw.Cambridge at the University Press, 1921.] ] . In the regnal list of the "Westrogothic law ", he is said to have been courteous and cheerful, and whenever a case was submitted to him, he judged fairly, and this was why Sweden mourned his death.He was the father of the co-rulers Philip and Inge the Younger. [http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/%7Ekyamazak/myth/norse/kershaw/Kershaw1s-hervor-and-heithrek.htm The "Saga of Hervör and Heithrek", in "Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese)", by N. Kershaw.Cambridge at the University Press, 1921.] ]The "
Hervarar saga ", which is one of the few sources about the kings of this time, has the following to tell:Notes and references
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