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From: Stewart Baldwin< >
Subject: Tostig [was: Edgar the Atheling]
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 04:19:15 GMT


On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 18:52:52 -0700, "Chris Bennett"
< > wrote:

>Stewart Baldwin < > wrote in message
>news: ...
>> On 24 Sep 2000 07:17:26 -0700, wrote:
><snip>
>Furthermore, king Ingi II of Norway (d. 1217) was a
>> direct male-line descendant of Tostig, brother of Harold II,
><snip>
>
>That's a new one on me, can you provide a reference or the outline descent?
>Thanks.

This was discussed in this newsgroup in 1996. Check the newsgroup
archives for that year using "Tostig" as a keyword. By the way, the
main primary source for this, Morkinskinna, is now (finally!)
available in English translation, published earlier this year by
Cornell University Press. As Morkinskinna (ca. 1220, based mainly on
one of the sources of Heimskringla) states the relationship
unambiguously, and members of this line were important men at the time
Morkinskinna was written, I am now inclined to accept the line from
Tostig as valid, compared to the more ambiguous position I had in 1996
(when I didn't have access to Morkinskinna, and knew little about it).

Here is a brief table of the descent. See the archives for more
details.

Tostig
|
Skli
|
slfr
|
Guthormr
|
Brr
______________|_____________
| |
Ingi II Skli jarl
king of |
Norway modern
descents

Stewart Baldwin

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