Geira

Geira (ca. 965 – 985) was a Wendish princess attested by Old Norse sagas who allegedly ruled over territory near the border of Germania before marrying a young Óláfr Tryggvasonr.

Family According to Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar and Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, she was the daughter of the Wendish king Burislav and the sister of Gunnhild, who married Sveinn Forkbeard, and Ástríðr, who married jarl Sigvaldi Strut-Haraldsson. This account of her family presents several problems of chronology.

Óláfr Tryggvasonr Both sagas present Geira as sole ruler of her own territory, with a lieutenant named Dixin, at the time of Óláfr Tryggvasonr's arrival in Wendland, which would have been in the 980s. Oddr specifies that she was already widowed by that time.