The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki

• King Helgi Attempts to Marry Queen Olof
• Queen Olof: "beautiful in looks, yet cruel and arrogant in temperament" - 50; ruler of Saxland (in Germany)
• Helgi tries to force Olof to marry him. She goes along with it until he falls drunk into her bed
• Olof sticks Helgi with a sleep thorn, shaves and tars him, sticks him in a clothes sack, and sends him and his drunk followers to their ship. They flee at the sounds of Olof's gathering army.
• King Helgi's Vengeance
• He tricks her into coming into the woods in the middle of the night to collect treasure he buried and told one of her slaves about
• Helgi takes Olof captive, sleeps with (rapes) her many nights, without wedding her
• The Girl Yrsa
• Daughter of Helgi and Olof, named after a dog of Olof's, showing her contempt for the offspring
• Helgi marries her after locating her after 12 years
• The Ring
• King Hroar, brother of King Helgi, wants a ring owned by Helgi, along with their sister Signy
• Hroar said to Helgi, "I will make this agreement [to grant Northumberland to him] if you will share with me some of our treasured possessions. I want the ring" - 56
• The Elfin Woman and the Birth of Skuld
• King Adils, ruler of Sweden from Uppsala, wants to marry Queen Yrsa
• Helgi has a one night stand with an elfin woman and 3 years later 3 people bring a daughter to him named Skuld and "she showed a vicious temperament." - 59
• King Hring of Norway Marries Hvit (daughter of the mistress of the King of Lappland)
• The Love of Bera and Bjorn (son of Hring)
• Bjorn Rejects Queen Hvit's Advances: The Curse
• Hvit, Bjorn's step-mother, said "while the king was away, they had an opportunity to share one bed." - 63
• Bjorn slaps the queen hard, and she hits him with her "wolfskin gloves, telling him to become a cave bear" and feed on King Hring's livestock - 63
• Bjorn's Transformation into a Bear and the Birth of Bodvar
• Bjorn and Bera reunite, she seeing him in the Bear's eyes and following him back to a cave where he turned back into his human form, as he does every night
• Bjorn predicts his death and the birth of 3 boys to Bera: Elk-Frodi, Thorir, and Bodvar
• The Queen eventually persuades Bera to eat a piece of roasted bear meat, against Bjorn's warning. Elk-Frodi develops the lower half of an elk, Thorir the feet of a dog, and Bodvar is of normal human appearance
• Thorir Becomes King of the Gauts
• after reuniting, "Elk-Frodi showed him [Thorir] the path to Gautland (southern province of Sweden), advising him that the king of the Gauts had just died and that Thorir should go to the kingdom." - 70
• Thorir attends the assembly of Gauts and, being a great size, fits a large throne used to determine who would be king, and he is called King Thorir Hound's Foot
• Bodvar's Vengeance
• "Bodvar entered the [queen's] chamber and turned to Queen Hvit. He placed the rough leather bag over her head. Then he pulled it down and tied it around her throat. He knocked her off her feet and with beatings and torments sent her to Hel, dragging her through every street." - 73
• King Hring became sick and died, and Bodvar succeeded him but was not long in that position
• Bodvar and His Brothers
• Queen Skuld Incites King Hjorvard (to rebel against paying tribute to King Hrolf of Denmark)
• Queen Skuld Attacks King Hrolf at Yule
• "It is not mentioned that King Hrolf and his champions worshipped the old gods at any time. Rather, they put their trust in their own might and main." - 88
• The Great Battle
• The Death of King Hrolf Kraki