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- Alrekr Agnason, King of the Swedes was the son of Agni Dagsson, King of the Swedes and N. N. (?).1 Alrekr Agnason, King of the Swedes succeeded his father, and was king together with his brother, Eric.1 He was a powerful man, a great warrior, and expert at all feats of arms.1 King of the Swedes at Uppsala.1 He married Dageiðr Dagsdóttir, daughter of King Dagr "the Great" (?). Alrekr Agnason, King of the Swedes died. It was the custom of he and his brother Eric to ride and break in horses both to walk and to gallop, which nobody understood so well as they; and they vied with each other who could ride best, and keep the best horses. It happened one day that both the brothers rode out together alone, and at a distance from their followers, with their best horses, and rode on to a field; but never came back. The people at last went out to look after them, and they were both found dead with their heads crushed. As they had no weapons, except it might be their horses' bridles, people believed that they had killed each other with these.
- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p278.htm#i9477
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