Aun 723036 207527018 2008-04-23T03:53:35Z Canglesea 4789991 disambig Auburn Muni {{For|the airport with this [[IATA location identifier]]|Auburn Municipal Airport (California)}} '''Ane''', '''On''', '''One''', '''Auchun''' or '''Aun the Old''' (''Audhun'', the same name as the A-S name ''Edwin'') was the son of [[Jorund]] and one of the [[Sweden|Swedish]] kings of the [[House of Yngling]], the ancestors of [[Norway]]'s first king, [[Harald Fairhair]]. Aun was a wise king who sacrificed greatly to the gods, but he was not a warlike king and preferred to live in peace. Consequently, he was attacked by the Danish prince [[Halfdan]] (the son of [[Fróði]], the son of [[Dan the Arrogant]], the founder of Denmark). Aun lost the battles and fled to the [[Geats]] in [[Västergötland]], where he stayed for 25 years until Halfdan died in his bed in [[Gamla Uppsala|Uppsala]] and was buried in a [[mound]]. King Aun could return to Uppsala, but he was 60 years old. In order to live longer he sacrificed his own son to [[Odin]] who promised him that he could live for another 60 years. However, after 25 years, Aun was attacked by [[Halfdan]]'s cousin [[Ale the Strong]]. Aun lost several battles and had to flee a second time to [[Västergötland]]. Ale the Strong ruled in Uppsala for 25 years until he was killed by [[Starkad]] the old. After Ale the Strong's death, Aun could return to Uppsala. Once again, Aun sacrificed a son to Odin, but this time Odin said that he would live as long as he sacrificed a son every ten years and that he had to name one of the Swedish provinces after the number of sons he sacrificed. When Aun had sacrificed a son for the seventh time, he was so old that he could not walk but had to be carried on a chair. When he had sacrificed a son for the eighth time, he could no longer get out of his bed. When he had sacrificed his ninth son, he was so old that he had to feed by suckling a horn like a little child. After ten years he wanted to sacrifice his tenth and last son and name the province of Uppsala ''the ten lands''. However, the Swedes refused to allow him this sacrifice and so he died. He was buried in a mound at Uppsala and succeeded by his last son [[Egil]]. From that day, dying in bed of old age was called ''Aun's sickness'' among the [[Scandinavia]]ns. {| | :Knátti endr :at Upsölum :ána-sótt :Aun of standa, :ok þrálífr :þiggja skyldi :jóðs alað :öðru sinni. :Ok sveiðurs :at sér hverfði :mækis hlut :enn mjávara, :es okhreins :óttunga hrjóðr :lögðis odd :liggjandi drakk; :máttit hárr :hjarðar mæki :austrkonungr :upp of halda.<ref>[http://www.heimskringla.no/original/heimskringla/ynglingasaga.php ''Ynglinga saga'' at ''Norrøne Tekster og Kvad'']</ref><ref>[http://www.home.no/norron-mytologi/sgndok/kvad/yngli.htm A second online presentation of ''Ynglingatal'']</ref> | :In Upsal's town the cruel king :Slaughtered his sons at Odin's shrine -- :Slaughtered his sons with cruel knife, :To get from Odin length of life. :He lived until he had to turn :His toothless mouth to the deer's horn; :And he who shed his children's blood :Sucked through the ox's horn his food. :At length fell Death has tracked him down, :Slowly, but sure, in Upsal's town.<ref>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/heim/02ynglga.htm Laing's translation at the Internet Sacred Text Archive]</ref><ref>[http://www.northvegr.org/lore/heim/001_05.php Laing's translation at Northvegr]</ref> | |} The ''[[Historia Norwegiæ]]'' presents a Latin summary of ''Ynglingatal'', older than Snorri's quotation (continuing after [[Jorund]]): {| | Iste genuit Auchun, qui longo vetustatis senio IX annis ante obitum suum densæ usum alimoniæ postponens lac tantum de cornu ut infans suxisse fertur. Auchun vero genuit Eigil cognomento Vendilcraco [...]<ref>Storm, Gustav (editor) (1880). ''Monumenta historica Norwegiæ: Latinske kildeskrifter til Norges historie i middelalderen'', Monumenta Historica Norwegiae (Kristiania: Brøgger), p. 100.</ref> | He became the father of Aukun, who, in the feebleness of a protracted old age, during the nine years before his death is said to have abandoned the consumption of solid food and only sucked milk from a horn, like a babe-in-arms. Aukun's son was Egil Vendelkråke, [...]<ref>Ekrem, Inger (editor), Lars Boje Mortensen (editor) and Peter Fisher (translator) (2003). ''Historia Norwegie''. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 8772898135, p. 77.</ref> | |} The even earlier source ''[[Íslendingabók]]'' also cites the line of descent in ''Ynglingatal'' and it also gives Aun as the successor of Jörundr and the predecessor of [[Ongenþeow|Egil Vendelcrow]]: ''xv Jörundr. xvi Aun inn gamli. xvii Egill Vendilkráka''<ref>[http://www.heimskringla.no/original/islendingesagaene/islendingabok.php Guðni Jónsson's edition of Íslendingabók]</ref>. ==Notes== <references/> ==Primary sources== *[[Ynglingatal]] *[[Ynglinga saga]] (part of the [[Heimskringla]]) *[[Historia Norvegiæ|Historia Norwegiae]] ==Secondary sources== Nerman, B. ''Det svenska rikets uppkomst''. Stockholm, 1925. {{start box}} {{s-hou|[[Yngling|House of Yngling]]||||}} {{succession box|title=[[Mythological king of Sweden]]'''<br>''First reign'''''&nbsp;|years=|before=[[Jorund]]|after=[[Halfdan (Old Norse)|Halfdan]]}} {{succession box|title=[[Mythological king of Sweden]]'''<br>''Second reign'''''&nbsp;|years=|before=[[Halfdan (Old Norse)|Halfdan]]|after=[[Ale the Strong]]}} {{succession box|title=[[Mythological king of Sweden]]'''<br>''Third reign'''''&nbsp;|years=|before=[[Ale the Strong]]|after=[[Ongenþeow|Egil Ongenþeow]]}} {{end box}} {{NorseMythology}} [[Category:Mythological kings of Sweden]] <!-- The below are interlanguage links. --> [[es:Aun]] [[sv:Ane]]