ABSTRACT
I must not neglect to mention here Saxo's account in Bk IX of the cunning ruses associated with King Ragnar. He relates that when Dian, king of the Hellespont, had been cut down after various hostile clashes, Ragnar fought harsh battles with the dead man's two sons, Dian and Daxon. When these two sons, who had earlier embraced in marriage the daughters of the Russian king, had requested and obtained troops from their father-in-law, they seized upon the business of avenging their father with blazing energy.
