The Ynglings (Heimskringla), Scylfings (Beowulf and Ynglingatal) or Sons of Freyr (Gesta Danorum and Ynglingatal) were the oldest known Scandinavian dynasty. They make up a large part of the Mythological kings of Sweden as well as the Semi-legendary kings of Sweden surrounding the search for Odin.
From 900, Norsemen begin invading Northumbria from the north, coming from Ireland and King Cearbhall of Leinster takes Dublin back from the Viking “foreigners.” The Viking Rollo (Ganga-Hrolf of the Heimskringla and Roland of Le Chanson de Roland) establishes himself as Duke in Normandy. Normandy secedes from France and becomes a kingdom in its own right in 912. The Norwegian Rognvald captures York from the Danes in 918. In 920 he recognizes Edward as overlord. All of Scotland, Northumbria, and the northern Welsh/Pictish kingdom of Strathclyde come under Edward’s control and who is succeeded by his son Æthelstan who then marries his sister to the Norse successor to Rognvald, Siggtrygg- his son Olaf succeeds to the kingdom with his Norse uncle Guthfrith, king of Dublin as regent. Æthelstan drives them both out.
Iceland first occupied by Norwegian vikings in 930, after Athelstan establishes a Roman Christian diocese in Cornwall, marking final conversion of Welsh and Cornish church to Roman order. Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, and Lincoln were regained from Celtic Northumbria by Norwegian Olaf of Dublin-Merica,Wessex, and Dingwall (Danelaw).
From Thorvald Asvaldsson back in Norway to Leif the Lucky, the luck of the Westvikings was about to change. The Landnam Saga tells of the first settlements in Iceland, and the Greenlander Saga tells of the first voyages and settlements farther west. The sagas tell that Norse voyagers were blown off course and reached Iceland by mistake in the 850s. The first attempt at a Norse settlement there, led by a farmer, Floki Vilgerdason, took place in the 860s. Tthe Landnam Saga records the continual North Atlantic to Iceland, which as a story of the Viking voyagers, was then continental.
Bjarni Herjolfsson, following his father’s emigration to Greenland, is blown off course and sights Newfoundland and Labrador in 986. Soon Lawspeaker Thorgeir decides at the Althing that all Icelanders will be baptized as Christians. Later, Leif Eriksson of Greenland explores Newfoundland and winters in Vinland there. Beginning of attempt to settle North America. Æthelred was driven out of England to Normandy by Swein and his son Cnut the following decade and England divided between Cnut and Æthelred ’s son Edmund Ironside. Edward the Confessor, last son of Æthelred the Unready, becomes King of England after having grown up in Normandy. His Norman influence is challenged by Earl Godwin of Wessex and then by Godwin’s son Harold elected.
Eiríkur the Red told Thorkell Gellisson who is Ari's unlce. From the Book of the Icelanders by Ari the Learned (1067-1148), Wineland and whom the Greenlanders call Skrælingjar had much involvement with the Coligny Calendar and naming the newfound place. The first attempt at a Norse settlement there, led by a farmer in the 860s. The Landnam Saga records the continual North Atlantic to Iceland, which as a story of the Viking voyagers, was then continental. The runic and ogham sagas tell that Norse voyagers were blown off course and reached Iceland by mistake in the 850s. At one time, north of Germania, an island called Skane or the province of Scania was not an island but the southern tip of Sweden attributed to the Norway island named for Scandinavia.