Editing Ragnar Lodbrok (section)

=== Later continental accounts ===
Among the oldest texts to mention the name Lodbrok is the Norman history of [[William of Jumièges]] from c. 1070. According to William, the Danish kings of old had the custom to expel the younger sons from the kingdom to have them out of the way. It was during the time this practice was in fashion that King Lodbrok succeeded his unnamed father on the Danish throne. After gaining power, he honoured the said custom and ordered his junior son Björn Ironside to leave his realm. Björn thus left Denmark with a considerable fleet and started to ravage in West Francia and later the [[Mediterranean]].<ref>{{cite book| url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013753564;view=1up;seq=23| title = Guillaume de Jumièges, ''Histoire des ducs de Normandie'', p. 11-3| year = 1826| publisher = Chez Mancel| access-date = 20 October 2019| archive-date = 27 October 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201027042105/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013753564;view=1up;seq=23| url-status = live}}</ref> Roughly contemporary with William is [[Adam of Bremen]] whose history of the [[Archbishopric of Hamburg|Archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen]] contains many traditions about Viking Age Scandinavia. In a passage referring to the Viking raids of the late 9th century, he mentions the Danish or Norse pirates Horich, Orwig, Gotafrid, Rudolf, and Inguar (Ivar). This Ivar is, in particular, seen as a cruel persecutor of Christians, and a son of Lodbrok (Inguar, filius Lodparchi).<ref>{{cite web| url = https://archive.org/stream/adamvonbremenham00adam#page/40/mode/2up| title = Adam von Bremen, ''Hamburgische Kirchengeschichte'', p. 39-40| year = 1917| publisher = Hannover, Hahn}}</ref>