Ragnvald Knaphövde
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Ragnvald Knaphövde was a King of Sweden whose reign is estimated to have occurred in the mid-1120s[1] or c. 1130.[2][3] His cognomen Knaphövde is explained as referring to a drinking vessel, the size of a man's head[2] or meaning "round head" and referring to his being foolish.[1] Ragnvald is mentioned in the regnal list of the Westrogothic law as the successor of King Inge the Younger.[3]
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His parentage is uncertain: King Inge the Elder of Sweden had a son named Ragnvald,[6] and historian Sven Tunberg has suggested him as identical with Ragnvald Knaphövde.[7] However, another tradition presents King Ragnvald as the son of an Olof Näskonung[2] (Neskonungr meant "king of a ness"[2] or "petty king", in Old Norse), and the regnal list of the Westrogothic law does not mention that Ragnvald had any connection with the old line of kings.