Ragnar the Adventurer

Ragnar wishes to continue his adventures of pillaging and conquering new lands. Being a Viking, he is used to travelling by water. Please help him travel to new lands and keep him near bodies of water (big and small), anywhere and everywhere in the world!

Ragnar Lothbrok was a Danish Viking warlord and a renowned hero of Norse history who lived in 9th century. He was a fearless Viking warrior who raided France and England. He made a significant impact on the history of 9th century, and his sons carrying on his legacy.

According to the accounts of French historians, Ragnar ruled as a king in Denmark and he and his sons raided France ruthlessly. Ragnar Lothbrok became famous as a warlord and made his fortune by raiding the lands and kingdoms in the west. He was told to be a witty leader and ruin the well-organized and disciplined forces of France with his furious army sometimes using blitzkrieg (sudden charge) tactics to surprise the enemy.

Longing for getting revenge on Ragnar for a long time, King Aella of Northumbria captured and threw Ragnar into a pit of snakes, leaving him to a painful and gruesome death. Legend has it that, right before he died, Ragnar sang a Norse hymn and warned King Aella that his sons would come for vengeance. His most famous sons being Bjorn Ironside, Ubba (Ubbe/Hubba), Halfdan Ragnarsson and Ivar the Boneless (Inwaer).

The Great Heathen Army (the Great Viking Army, a combined army of Vikings from Denmark and Sweden) led by Ragnar Lothbrok’s sons invaded England and killed King Aella in 866.

Ragnar’s legacy continued and his descendants actually kept on making an impact on the structure of the region even long after he was dead. Around two centuries after Ragnar’s passing, some of the Vikings, who descended from his sons, settled in the west coast of France turning this area into “the land of Northmen”, Normandy as we know it in the present day.