Stanza 18 of the
Hyndluljóð reads: In the later
Hversu Noregr byggðist, it is reported that Dag married a woman named
Þóra drengjamóður and they had nine sons. Among them were Óli, Ámr, Jöfurr and
Arngrim the berserker who married
Eyfura. This makes this Dag roughly contemporary with the Dag of
Ynglinga saga,
Hervarar saga and ''
Orvar-Odd's saga'', as Arngrim's sons Angantyr and his brother Hjörvard would have been the cousins of the Swedish king Yngvi, whose daughter Hjörvard wanted to marry. This proposal would lead to both
Angantyr and his brothers being killed in battle against the Swedish hero
Hjalmar and his Norwegian friend Orvar-Odd. The "Hversu Noregr Byggðist" tells that Dag's father,
Halfdan the Old, received a promise from the gods that there would be no woman and no man who was not of great repute among his descendants for three hundred years. Another one of Dag the Great's sons according to
Hversu Noregr Byggðist was Óli, who was the father of Dag, the father of Óleif the father of Hring (the old king Ring of ''
Frithiof's Saga''), the father of Olaf, the father of Helgi, the father of
Sigurd Hjort, the father of Ragnhild, who was the mother of
Harald Fairhair. This line partially agrees with the one found in
Ragnarssona þáttr, where it is told instead that Dag the Great and his wife Þóra drengjamóður were the parents of Hring, the father of Ingi, the father of Ingjald, the father of Olaf, the father of Gudröd and
Helgi the Sharp. Helgi married the daughter of
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye and had the son
Sigurd Hjort, the father of Ragnhild, the mother of Harald Fairhair. ==References==