Ráðbarðr
Legendary king of Garðaríki
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Ráðbarðr, sometimes Anglicised as Radbard or Rathbarth, was a legendary king of Garðaríki, who appears in Sögubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum and the Lay of Hyndla.
Attestations
Sögubrot
Sögubrot tells that he married the fugitive princess Auðr the Deep-Minded, the daughter of Ivar Vidfamne, without the consent of her father king Ivar Vidfamne, who soon departed to punish his daughter. He died en route, however, and so Ráðbarðr helped Auð's son Harald Wartooth claim his maternal grandfather's possessions in Sweden and Denmark.[1]
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Kings of the Danes are marked with a crown (♕).
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Lay of Hyndla
The twenty-eighth stanza of the Lay of Hyndla describes the family of Harald Wartooth. It says that Ráðbarðr was the father (presumably by Auðr, given the context) of Randver.
Gesta Danorum
A possibly unrelated character named Rathbarthus is mentioned in the Latin Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, in Book 8 during Saxo's version of the Battle of Brávellir, where Harald Wartooth died. He is described as the grandfather of Regnaldus Rutenus (i.e. Regnald the Ruthenian or Russian), who was one of the kings who served in the bodyguard of Olo the Vigorous (who would later be made king of Denmark after the battle).[2]