Editing Vikings (section)

====Intermixing with the Slavs====
Slavic and Viking tribes were "closely linked, fighting one another, intermixing and trading".<ref name="Smithsonian mag"/>{{sfn|Barford|2001|pp=89–90}}<ref name="University of Nottingham">{{cite web|last1=Radziwillowicz|first1=Natalia|title=Considering the connections between Scandinavia and the southern Baltic coast in the 10th −11th Centuries|url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/documents/innervate/16-17/3.-radziwillowicz-n-q33408-dissertation.pdf|date=2007|publisher=[[University of Nottingham]]|location=Nottingham, England, UK|page=|isbn=|access-date=17 January 2021|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122052625/https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/documents/innervate/16-17/3.-radziwillowicz-n-q33408-dissertation.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In the Middle Ages, goods were transferred from Slavic areas to Scandinavia, and Denmark could be considered "a melting pot of Slavic and Scandinavian elements".<ref name="Smithsonian mag"/> Leszek Gardeła, of the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures at the University of Bonn, posits that the presence of Slavs in Scandinavia is "more significant than previously thought",<ref name="Smithsonian mag"/> while Mats Roslund states that "the  Slavs and their interaction with Scandinavia have not been adequately investigated".<ref name="Roslund2007">{{cite book |last1=Roslund |first1=Mats |title=Guests in the House: Cultural Transmission between Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 AD |year=2007 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-474-2185-6 |page=469 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1POvCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA469 |access-date=12 February 2023 |archive-date=12 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212154738/https://books.google.com/books?id=1POvCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA469 |url-status=live }}</ref>

A 10th-century grave of a female warrior in Denmark was long thought to belong to a Viking. A 2019 analysis suggested the woman may have been a Slav from present-day Poland.<ref name="Smithsonian mag">{{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/viking-woman-warrior-was-actually-poland-180972739/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117132710/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/viking-woman-warrior-was-actually-poland-180972739/|archive-date=17 January 2021|url-status=live|title=Viking Woman Warrior May Have Been Slavic |publisher= [[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |access-date=17 January 2021}}</ref> The first king of the Swedes, [[Eric the Victorious|Eric]], was married to [[Gunhild of Wenden|Gunhild]], of the Polish [[House of Piast]].<ref name="Olaf Britannica">{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Olaf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117140527/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Olaf|archive-date=17 January 2021|url-status=dead|title=Olaf|publisher=[[Britannica]]|access-date=17 January 2021}}</ref> Likewise, his son, [[Olof Skötkonung|Olof]], fell in love with [[Edla]], a Slavic woman, and took her as his ''[[:sv:Frilla|frilla]]'' (concubine).<ref name="Lindqvist">{{cite book|last1=Lindqvist|first1=Herman|title=Historien om alla Sveriges drottningar: från myt och helgon till drottning i tiden|url=https://brill.com/view/book/9789047421856/Bej.9789004161894.i-557_006.xml|date=2006|publisher=[[Norstedts förlag|Norstedt]]; [[University of Wisconsin]]|location=|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=eesnAQAAMAAJ&q=Edla 24; 35; 536]|isbn=9113015249|access-date=17 January 2021|archive-date=2 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602012418/https://brill.com/view/book/9789047421856/Bej.9789004161894.i-557_006.xml|url-status=live}}</ref> They had a son and a daughter: [[Emund the Old]], King of Sweden, and [[Astrid Olofsdotter of Sweden|Astrid]], Queen of Norway. [[Cnut the Great]], King of Denmark, England and Norway, was the son of a daughter of [[Mieszko I of Poland]],<ref name="Cnut Britannica">{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Canute-I|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117155542/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Canute-I|archive-date=17 January 2021|url-status=dead|title=Canute (I) king of England, Denmark, and Norway|publisher=[[Britannica]]|access-date=17 January 2021}}</ref> possibly the former Polish queen of Sweden, wife of Eric.