Gautrek Koning van Götland The Bounteous Gautsson

• Preferred Name: Gautrek Koning van Götland The Bounteous Gautsson
  
• Alternate Name: Gautrek Gautsson
  
• Alternate Name: Gautrek Gautreksson Legendary Geatish king
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: 605 in Vestergötland, Götland, Sweden at LATI: N8.0167 LONG: E3.05 with note: This makes no sense. He was born when his mother was 10 or 11. I seriously doubt it.
  
• FSID: GZY1-MJ3
  
• Sealing+to+Spouse: with note: Description: Completed
  
• Nickname:
  
• Sealing+to+Parents: 23 APR 2003 in Seattle Washington Temple
  
• Endowment: 14 SEP 2001 in Ogden Utah Temple
  
• Death: BET 639 AND 700 in Iceland at LATI: N4.89 LONG: E18.16 with note: https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-homs/I6000000005049061722.php
  
• Temple+Ordinances: 3 AUG 2001 in Ogden Utah Temple with note: Description: Baptism
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  From Wikipedia: "Gautrekr was a legendary Geatish king who appears in several sources, such as Gautreks saga, Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar, Bósa saga ok Herrauðs, Ynglinga saga, Nafnaþulur (part of the Prose Edda) and Af Upplendinga konungum.
  
  "He appears in different temporal settings, and he could represent different kings named Gautrekr, as the name simply means "Geatish ruler". In the various settings, he also has different offspring. However, all settings present him as the son of a Gaut or Gauti, and in one of the later settings, his father Gaut gave his name to Götaland (Geatland).
  
  "In Nafnaþulur, he is mentioned as one of the sea-kings, after his father Gauti."
  
  All the sources Kara Ishii has found so far (Sep 2022) have his birth year as AD 605; however, that would mean his mother gave birth to him when she was 10 or 11 years old.
  
  Wikipedia: "Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar is a Scandinavian legendary saga which was put to text in Iceland in the 13th century. It has a prequel in Gautreks saga.
  
  "Gautrekr was a Geatish king who descended from Odin himself." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrólfs_saga_Gautrekssonar
  
  More from Wikipedia:
  "GAUTREKR THE MILD
  In the late setting, Gautrekr the Mild is the father of Algautr, the last Geatish king, in Scandinavian legends.
  
  "Both Af Upplendinga konungum and Ynglinga saga describe him as the son of Gaut, after whom Götaland (Geatland) took its name. Af Upplendinga konungum tells that Gautrekr was married to Alof, the daughter of Olaf the Clear-Sighted, the king of Närke. Both sources tell that Gautrekr had a son named Algautr whose daughter Gauthildr married the pre-Swedish king Ingjald Ill-ruler.
  
  "The Ynglinga saga then continues by telling how the pre-Swedish king invited Algautr and several other petty kings to a banquet at Uppsala only to be burnt to death inside the hall where they had the banquet. Ingjald then proceeded to conquer the kingdoms of the dead kings.
  
  "GAUTREKR THE GENEROUS
  In Bósa saga ok Herrauðs, Gautrekr the Generous is shortly mentioned as the son of Gauti, the son of Odin. It adds that his brother Ring was the king of Östergötland and the father of Herrauðr. This Herrauðr is the same as the Geatish earl who gave his daughter Þóra Town-Hart to Ragnar Lodbrok, when he had saved her from the Lindworm in a number of other sagas."
  
  A shortened version of his story at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautreks_saga) is as follows:
  "The shorter version begins by relating how Gautrekr's father-to-be, King Gauti of West Götaland, becomes lost while hunting, and spends the night in an isolated homestead of strange, arguably insane, backwoods bumpkins: a stingy farmer named Skafnörtungr ('Skinflint'), his equally stingy wife Tötra ('Tatters'), and their three sons and three daughters. That night Gauti fathers Gautrekr on Snotra, the eldest of the farmer's daughters and supposedly the most intelligent of the family. The account bristles with grisly humor as it relates how one by one the members of the family go on to kill themselves over the most trivial losses, believing that they will go to Óðinn in Valhöll, until at last only Snotra and her child Gautrekr remain. At that point Snotra takes Gautrekr to Gauti's court; years later, on his deathbed, King Gauti makes Gautrekr his heir. This section is sometimes referred to as Dalafífla þáttr ("The Tale of the Fools in the Valley").
  
  "The saga then shifts to a folk-tale-like account of how Refr, the lazy son of a farmer, forces his father's stupendous ox as gift upon the stingy but extraordinarily intelligent Jarl Neri and requests only Neri's advice in return. Jarl Neri normally never accepts gifts because he is too stingy to repay them. But he takes the ox and gives Ref a whetstone in return, telling him how to employ it as a gift to King Gautrekr to get greater wealth. The saga has mentioned Gautrek's marriage to Álfhildr, daughter of King Haraldr of Wendland, and Álfhildr's subsequent death by illness years later, which has driven the grieving Gautrekr somewhat out of his mind: ignoring all matters of state, Gautrekr spends all his time on Álfhildr's burial mound, flying his hawk. On Neri's advice, Refr gives the whetstone to Gautrekr at the moment that the king needs something to throw at his hawk; Gautrekr promptly gives Refr a gold ring. Refr goes on to visit king after king, in each case giving part or all of that which he received from the previous king, and getting in return a greater gift, since none of the kings want to be outdone by Gautrekr, who "gives gold in exchange for pebbles." At last, through Neri's advice and trickery, Refr gains the hand of Gautrekr's daughter Helga and an earldom that Neri held from King Gautrekr. This is often known as Gjafa-Refs þáttr ('the story of Gift-Refr').
  
  "The shorter version of the saga ends with an account of King Gautrekr's remarriage to the fair Ingibjörg, daughter of a powerful hersir in the Sogn region of Norway. Ingibjörg chooses Gautrekr for his fame and generosity, despite his age, over the young prince Óláfr who has also asked for her hand. Gautrekr fights off an attack by the rejected and disappointed Óláfr, marries Ingibjörg, and fathers two sons named Keti'l and Hrólfr with her.
  
  "Snorri Sturluson introduces Gauti and Gautrek in his Ynglinga saga where Gauti "after whom Gautland (Götaland) is named" is mentioned as the father of Gautrek the Generous the father of King Algaut the father of Gauthild who married Ingjald the son of King Önund of Sweden. This should make Gautrek live in the early 7th century, approximately contemporary with Önund's father Yngvar or possibly Yngvar's father Eystein in whose days, according to Snorri, the Danish king Hrólf Kraki died. And indeed Hrólf Kraki is one of the kings whom Ref visits in the saga. Another king visited by Ref is Ælle of England and the historical King Ælle of Deira could well be contemporary to the legendary Hrólf Kraki of Denmark. However in the section concerning Starkad, the kings of Sweden are the brothers Alrek and Eirík which, if one trusts the order of kings in the Ynglinga saga, would put Gautrek generations earlier.
  
  "However in Bósa saga ok Herrauds (The saga of Herraud and Bósi), Gautrek's supposed half-brother Hring is a contemporary of King Harald Wartooth.
  
  "Gjafa-Refs þáttr has a close parallel in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum. The parallels are summarised by Michael Chesnutt as follows:[3]"
  
  3 = Michael Chesnutt. 2009. ‘The Content and Meaning of Gjafa-Refs saga’ in Fornaldarsagaerne. Myter og virkilighed. Studier i de oldislandske fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda. Eds. Agneta Ney, Ármann Jakobsson and Annette Lassen. 2009, 93-106 (p. 101).

• m. ABT 638 in Sweden

1. Algaut Gotaland Gautreksson, b. aproximadamente 0640 in Värmland, Värmland, Sweden     d. 716 in Uppsala, Sweden
2. Algaut Gautreksson, of Götaland, b. 639 in Värmland, Sweden     d. 664 in Uppsala, Sweden