Yngvarr

Yngvarr is a made-up Viking name used in the chansonnier and the second volume of the Ashborn manuscript. The name is modern and is not found in the Poetic Edda or the Prose Edda. The story of Yngvarr is about a Viking who arrives in Spain and fights his way up to becoming king there, dying in 840. However, this story is not included in the Heimskringla, a collection of sagas about the kings of Norway.

In the Ashborn manuscript, the story of Yngvarr appears in the Yngvars saga víðförla, which is comparable to the Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, a work by Olaus Magnus. The Historia was printed much earlier than the Yngvars saga víðförla, however, it's said that the saga uses the narrative from the Historia as a basis but modifies it significantly and uniquely displays Norwegian manuscripts

The story of Yngvarr differs heavily from presently known real Scandinavian myths, analyses including real Viking expeditions have found that several etiological claims is added to support the medieval myth making of Scandinavians.