| Sigrid the Haughty | |
|---|---|
 Sigrid with Olaf Tryggvason as imagined by Erik Werenskiold | |
| Queen consort of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and England | |
| Spouses | Eric the Victorious Sweyn Forkbeard |
| Issue | Olof Skötkonung Emund Estrid Svendsdatter |
| Father | Skoglar Toste |
Sigrid the Haughty (Old Norse:Sigríðr (hin) stórráða), also known as Sigrid Storråda (Swedish), is a Scandinavian queen appearing in Norse sagas. Sigrid is named in several late and sometimes contradictory Icelandic sagas composed generations after the events the stories describe, but there is no reliable, historical evidence attesting to the veracity of her depiction in those tales. She is reported by Heimskringla to have been the wife of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, as being sought after by Olaf Tryggvasson, and then married to Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark. In other writings, however, author Snorri Sturluson says that Sweyn the Dane was married not to Sigrid but some other woman.
It is unclear if the figure of Sigrid was a real person. Some recent scholars identify her with a documented Polish wife of Eric and perhaps Sweyn mentioned by medieval chroniclers and referred to as 'Świętosława' by some modern historians, but the potential husbands attributed to Sigrid lived over a wide date range and other modern scholars believe Sigrid may be an amalgamation of several historical women.[1]
- ^ Birgitta Fritz (2004), "Sigrid Storråda", Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon, vol. 32