Published on March 21, 2020

Gyda of Dublin

Life	Gyda (?-?).
Family	House of Dublin. Father is Olaf ‘Cuaran’ Sihtricsson. Mother is unknown. Husband: (1) Jarl ? (2) Olaf Tryggvason (988). Child: Tryggve (Trygvi) Olafsson (?).
Events	After the death of her first husband, rules his property herself.

Sources: FMG, Woman Rulers throughout the Ages.

Note: Gyda is only known from the sagas about Olaf Tryggvason’s life.