Ragnar Lodbrok would have been a Danish Jarl at an indefinite period between 750 and 850.
It is a legendary king whose historical reality we are not sure that appears in the gesture of the Danes and whose exploits could be a kind of compilation of those of several Viking chiefs a kind of Viking King Arthur without the mystical side .
If the Historical Ragnar could not be identified, he would be the progenitor of sons who really existed and who hit the headlines in their time, Sigurd Ragnardson snake eye and Ivar Ragnarson said the boneless or boneless, Ubbe or Ubba Ragnarson, Halfdan Ragnarson mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
It would seem that at least part of Ragnar's story is based on historical fact. He would have carried out raids or even occupation campaigns on Anglo-Saxon and Frankish countries, perhaps even as far as Paris
legend says he was captured by King Aelle of Northumbria. He would have been put to death, thrown into a pit full of snakes (researchers doubt the veracity of this execution because there are relatively few poisonous snakes in Great Britain).
In 866 his sons Ubba Halfdan and Ivar without bones attacked Northumbria and put King Aelle to death to avenge their father according to legend by subjecting him to the blood eagle (unlikely version:this torture was probably an invention of the monks of the 9th century intended to demonize the Normans).
C.L.