Dog king

The dog king is a Scandinavian tradition which appears in several Scandinavian sources: Chronicon Lethrense, Gesta Danorum (book 7), Gesta Danorum på danskæ, Heimskringla (Hákonar saga góða), Hversu Noregr byggðist and probably also in Skáldatal. The tale relates that a dog was made a king of a certain medieval Scandinavian land (although which land varies according to the telling) by a conquering foreign power.

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