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- Fjölnir Yngvifreysson, King of the Swedes was the son of Yngvi-Frey, the ruler of Peace and Fertility, Rain, and Sunshine and Gerðr, the Giantess.1 Fjölnir Yngvifreysson, King of the Swedes was powerful, and lucky in seasons and in holding the peace. King of the Swedes at Uppsala, Sweden. He died at "In Frode's Hall", Hleithra, Sealand, Denmark. He was attending a great feast hosted by his friend, Frode of Leidre, at the latter's hall in Sealand. In this large house there was a vessel many ells high. This vessel stood in a lower room, and from above it, in a hole in the floor of the loft, one poured the mead, exceedingly strong. "In the evening Fjolne, with his attendants, was taken into the adjoining loft to sleep. In the night he went out to the gallery to seek a certain place, and he was very sleepy and exceedingly drunk. As he came back to his room he went along the gallery to the door of another left, went into it, and his foot slipping, he fell into the vessel of mead and was drowned."
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