# Sigrid Storråde — Short Fiction character guide

> Sigrid Storråde in Short Fiction by Selma Lagerlöf.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sigrid the beautiful, Sigrid, the Swedish Queen Sigrid Storräde, Queen Sigrid, Storräde

**First appearance:** 0034-sigrid-storr-de

## Snapshot

The beautiful, imperious Swedish queen who laughs through grace, boasts of burning her suitors, and makes King Olaf forget the church bells.

## Who they are

Sigrid Storråde arrives at Kungahälla to consider marrying King Olaf, and she sizes up the harbor's herring, salt, oak, and hides with a merchant's delight. At table she talks over the Bishop's prayers and tells how she had two minor kings burnt for daring to woo her, while Olaf sits at her feet and listens. Her bard sings of Brynhild, and Olaf sees in her radiant eyes and black brows a woman who would ride to Valhalla with him or kill him if forsaken.

## In the story

### [Queens at Kungahälla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_50_se/chapters/queens-at-kungah-lla)

The Swedish Queen who visits Kungahälla and engages with King Olaf.

### [Sigrid Storräde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_50_se/chapters/sigrid-storr-de)

The Swedish Queen, a beautiful but wicked heathen, who travels to Kungahälla to marry King Olaf, but is rejected.

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