in the snake pit - the fate ascribed by tradition to the early Burgundian king Gunnar, as recounted in the Icelandic sagas. In spite of all his praise for Ragnar Lodbrok, Saxo also considers his fate as God's rightful vengeance for the contempt he had shown the Christian religion.

Poetic and epigraphic sources

While the narrative Norse sources date from the 12th and 13th centuries, there are also many older poems that mention him and his kin.

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