King Egill AUNSSON, Of Uppsala

Abt 530 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Egill AUNSSON
  Prefix	King
  Suffix	Of Uppsala
  Birth	Abt 530	Sweden
  Gender	Male
  _HASHTAG	KING
  	Designated Royal King
  _UID	8C6FD327DBCC4BDC8C1B914E3916E735B4AA
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I28767	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	King Aun Gamli JÖRUNDSSON, Of The Swedes   d. Abt 509
  Family ID	F12549	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. King Ottarr EGILSSON, Of Uppsala,   b. Abt 551, Sweden d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F12548	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  ·King Egil was a great hunter, and often rode into the forest to chase wild animals. Once he rode out with his men to hunt in the forest. The king had traced an animal a long while, and followed it in the forest, separated from all his men. He observed at last that it was the bull, and rode up to it to kill it. The bull turned round suddenly, and the king struck him with his spear; but it tore itself out of the wound. The bull now struck his horn in the side of the horse, so that he instantly fell flat on the earth with the king. The king sprang up, and was drawing his sword, when the bull struck his horns right into the king's breast. The king's men then came up and killed the bull. The king lived but a short time, and was buried in a mound at Upsal. Thjodolf sings of it thus: -- "The fair-haired son of Odin's race, Who fled before fierce Tunne's face, Has perished by the demon-beast Who roams the forests of the East. The hero's breast met the full brunt Of the wild bull's shaggy front; The hero's heart's asunder torn By the fell Jotun's spear-like horn." event·succeeded as king in Sweden after his father's death event ·no warrior, but sat quietly at home event ·rebelled against by a slave of his late father's named Tunne, who'd taken Aunn's treasure and buried it, and when Egil withheld the respect he felt he'd deserved, he unearthed the treasure and used it to gather about him men to pillage and maraud King Egil's lands, and Tunne won every battle they fought and eventually forced Egil to flee to Denmark event ·assisted against the usurper Tunne by King Frode the Bold of Denmark, who provided men, in exchange for the promise of a tax from Egil, and Egil therewith recovered Uppsala event ·did not fulfill his promise of paying tax to Frode, but managed to remain friends with the king anyway