Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigríð Storråda (Polish: Świętosława) is a queen appearing in Norse sagas as wife, first of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, then Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark. While given the Nordic ancestry in sagas, she has been hypothesized to be identical to historically attested Polish princesses, the daughter of Mieszko I of Poland and Dobrawa of Bohemia, sister of Bolesław I the Brave. Her authenticity is disputed by some modern scholars such as Birgitta Fritz.Sigrid appears in many sagas composed generations after the events they describe, but there is no reliable evidence as to her existence as they describe her. It is unclear if she was a real person, if the saga account of her is an amalgamation of the lives and deeds of several women, or if she is a completely fictional character.. }
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- Sigrid_the_Haughty abstract "Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigríð Storråda (Polish: Świętosława) is a queen appearing in Norse sagas as wife, first of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, then Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark. While given the Nordic ancestry in sagas, she has been hypothesized to be identical to historically attested Polish princesses, the daughter of Mieszko I of Poland and Dobrawa of Bohemia, sister of Bolesław I the Brave. Her authenticity is disputed by some modern scholars such as Birgitta Fritz.Sigrid appears in many sagas composed generations after the events they describe, but there is no reliable evidence as to her existence as they describe her. It is unclear if she was a real person, if the saga account of her is an amalgamation of the lives and deeds of several women, or if she is a completely fictional character.".