Þóra Borgarhjǫrtr (Old Norse, which literally means "Þóra Town-Hart") is a mythical character in the Norse sagas – the wife of Ragnarr Loðbrók, who kills an wyrm to win her hand in marriage. Þóra was the daughter of Herrauðr, the Earl of Gautland (Götland).
In the sagas[]
According to the sagas, Þóra lived in a bower in Vestrgautland (Västergötland). Her father gave her a small lindworm that grew into a large serpent and encircled the bower. Her father promised Þóra's hand in marriage to any man who could slay the serpent.
After divorcing his first wife, the shield-maiden Lagertha, Ragnarr wanted to make Þóra his wife. He went to the bower, wearing breeches that he had treated with tar and sand to protect his legs from the serpent's poison. It was from these that he gained the epithet Loðbrók (which literally means "Hairy-Britches"). Wielding a spear, Ragnarr approached the serpent. It spat poison at him, but the poison could not penetrate Ragnarr's shield or breeches. He stuck his spear through the serpent's heart and cut off its head. Þóra and Ragnarr were then married.
According to the Tale of Ragnar's Sons (Ragnarssona þáttr), Þóra and Ragnarr had two sons, Eiríkr and Agnarr.
Þóra died of an illness, while Eiríkr and Agnar died in or following a battle with Eysteinn Beli, an Earl of Sweden appointed by Ragnarr.
Ragnarr later married Áslaug (Aslög), the daughter of Sigurðr and Brynhildr.[1]
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