Ottar Jarl
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Jarl Ottar or Ottar Jarl (?-970s) was a jarl of Götaland who appears in the Heimskringla (the Saga of Olaf Tryggvasson) and in the Jomsvikinga Saga.
The Jomsvikinga Saga tells that Ottar was the maternal grandfather of Palnetoke, the Jomsviking.
In the Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson relates that Haakon Sigurdsson killed Jarl Ottar during an attack on Götaland for Harald Bluetooth.
References
- Gobineau, Arthur de (1879). Histoire d'Ottar Jarl, pirate norvégien, conquérant du pays de Bray en Normandie, et de sa descendance. Paris: Didier.
- Hollander, Lee M. (1955). The Saga of the Jómsvíkings. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77623-4
- Sturluson, Snorri (1992). Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, tr. Lee M. Hollander. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73061-6
