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[[Image:Skuttungeån (Skutå).JPG|thumb|right|200px|Vanlandi was burned by the river Skúta/Skytaa/Skutån ("shooting creek"). In the summer, the creek hardly merits the name, and today it is called ''Skuttungeån''.]]
{{short description|Legendary King of Sweden}}
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| predecessor = [[Sveigðir]]
| successor = [[Visbur]]
| spouse = Drífa
| issue = [[Visbur]]
| house = [[House of Yngling]]
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| father = [[Sveigðir]]
| mother = Vana
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| place of burial = By the Skúta river
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'''Vanlandi''' or '''Vanlande''' ([[Old Norse]]: "Man from the [[Vanaheimr|Land of the Vanir]]")<ref name=MCKINNELL70>McKinnell (2005:70).</ref> was, according to Norse mythology, a [[Sweden|Swedish]] king who ruled at [[Gamla Uppsala|Uppsala]] as part of the [[House of Yngling]]. He was the son of [[Sveigðir]], whom he succeeded as king.

Vanlandi married a woman named Drífa from ''Finnland'' but later abandoned her. In retaliation, Drífa sought revenge by enlisting a sorceress to curse him. As a result, Vanlandi was [[Sleep paralysis|hag-ridden]] to death. He was succeeded by his son, [[Visbur]].

==Attestations==
[[Snorri Sturluson]] wrote of Vanlandi in his ''[[Ynglinga saga]]'' (1225) (note that the translator has rendered ''Finnland'' as [[Finland]]):
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Vanlandi hét son Svegðis, er ríki tók eptir hann ok réð fyrir Uppsala auð; hann var hermaðr mikill, ok hann fór víða um lönd. Hann þá vetrvist á Finnlandi með Snjá hinum gamla, ok fékk þar dóttr hans Drífu. En at vári fór hann á brott, en Drífa var eptir, ok hét hann at koma aptr á þriggja vetra fresti; en hann kom eigi á 10 vetrum. Þá sendi Drífa eptir Huld seiðkonu, en sendi Vísbur, son þeirra Vanlanda, til Svíþjóðar. Drífa keypti at Huld seiðkonu, at hon skyldi síða Vanlanda til Finnlands, eða deyða hann at öðrum kosti. En er seiðr var framiðr, þá var Vanlandi at Uppsölum; þá gerði hann fúsan at fara til Finnlands, en vinir hans ok ráðamenn bönnuðu honum, ok sögðu at vera mundi fjölkyngi Finna í farfýsi hans. Þá gerðist honum svefnhöfugt, ok lagðist hann till svefns. En er hann hafði lítt sofnat, kallaði hann ok sagði, at mara trað hann. Menn hans fóru til ok vildu hjálpa honum; en er þeir tóku uppi til höfuðsins, þá trað hon fótleggina, svá at nær brotnuðu; þá tóku þeir til fótanna, þá kafði hon höfuðit, svá at þar dó hann. Svíar tóku lík hans, ok var hann brendr við á þá er Skúta heitir. Þar váru settir bautasteinar hans.<ref name="heimskringla.no">{{Cite web |url=http://www.heimskringla.no/original/heimskringla/ynglingasaga.php |title=''Ynglinga saga'' at ''Norrøne Tekster og Kvad'' |access-date=2006-11-03 |archive-date=2005-12-31 |archive-url=http://web.archive.bibalex.org/web/20051231070651/http://www.heimskringla.no/original/heimskringla/ynglingasaga.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Vanlande, Swegde's son, succeeded his father, and ruled over the
[[Uppsala öd|Upsal domain]]. He was a great warrior, and went far around in
different lands. Once he took up his winter abode in [[Finland]]
with [[Snær|Snae the Old]], and got his daughter Driva in marriage; but in
spring he set out leaving Driva behind, and although he had
promised to return within three years he did not come back for
ten.  Then Driva sent a message to the [[völva|witch]] [[Huld]]; and sent
[[Visbur]], her son by Vanlande, to [[Sweden]]. Driva bribed the witch-
wife Huld, either that she should bewitch Vanlande to return to
Finland, or kill him.  When this witch-work was going on Vanlande
was at [[Gamla Uppsala|Upsal]], and a great desire came over him to go to Finland;
but his friends and counsellors advised him against it, and said
the [[seiðr|witchcraft]] of the Finn people showed itself in this desire of
his to go there.  He then became very drowsy, and laid himself
down to sleep; but when he had slept but a little while he cried
out, saying that the [[Mara (folklore)|Mara]] was treading upon him.  His men
hastened to him to help him; but when they took hold of his head
she trod on his legs, and when they laid hold of his legs she
pressed upon his head; and it was his death.  The Swedes took his
body and burnt it at a river called Skytaa, where a [[standing stone]] was raised over him.<ref name="sacred-texts.com">[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_03.php Laing's translation at Northvegr] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312204129/http://www.northvegr.org/lore/heim/001_03.php |date=2007-03-12 }}</ref>
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Snorri also quoted some lines from ''[[Ynglingatal]]'' composed in the 9th century:

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:En á vit
:Vilja bróður
:vitta véttr
:Vanlanda kom,
:þá er trollkund
:of troða skyldi
:liðs grímhildr
:ljóna bága;
:ok sá brann á beði Skútu
:menglötuðr,
:er mara kvalði.<ref name="heimskringla.no"/><ref>[http://www.home.no/norron-mytologi/sgndok/kvad/yngli.htm A second online presentation of ''Ynglingatal'']</ref>
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:And Vanlande, in a fatal hour,
:Was dragg'd by Grimhild's daughter's power,
:The witch-wife's, to the dwelling-place
:Where men meet Odin face to face.
:Trampled to death, to Skytaa's shore
:The corpse his faithful followers bore;
:And there they burnt, with heavy hearts,
:The good chief killed by witchcraft's arts.<ref name="sacred-texts.com"/><ref>[http://www.northvegr.org/lore/heim/001_05.php Laing's translation at Northvegr] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311071027/http://www.northvegr.org/lore/heim/001_05.php |date=2007-03-11 }}</ref>
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The ''[[Historia Norwegiæ]]'' presents a Latin summary of ''Ynglingatal'', older than Snorri's quotation:
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Iste [Swegthir] genuit Wanlanda, qui in somno a dæmone suffocatus interiit, quod genus dæmoniorum norwegico sermone mara vocatur. Hic genuit Wisbur [...]<ref>Storm, Gustav (editor) (1880). ''Monumenta historica Norwegiæ: Latinske kildeskrifter til Norges historie i middelalderen'', Monumenta Historica Norwegiae (Kristiania: Brøgger), p. 98</ref>
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He [Sveigde] sired Vanlande, who died in his sleep, suffocated by a goblin, one of the demonic species known in Norwegian as '[[Mare_(folklore)|mare]]'. He was the father of Visbur, [...]<ref>Ekrem, Inger (editor), Lars Boje Mortensen (editor) and Peter Fisher
(translator) (2003). ''Historia Norwegie''. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN
8772898135, p. 75.</ref>
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The even earlier source ''[[Íslendingabók]]'' cites the line of descent in ''Ynglingatal'' and also gives Vanlandi as the successor of Svegðir and the predecessor of [[Visbur]]: ''v Svegðir. vi Vanlandi. vii Visburr. viii Dómaldr''.<ref>[http://www.heimskringla.no/original/islendingesagaene/islendingabok.php Guðni Jónsson's edition of Íslendingabók] {{webarchive|url=http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20070508145441/http://www.heimskringla.no/original/islendingesagaene/islendingabok.php |date=2007-05-08 }}</ref>

==Geography==
''Geographical note'': According to the article ''Skuttunge'' in ''[[Nationalencyklopedin]]'', the creek ''Skutá'' lent its name to the village of Skuttunge and the parish of ''[[Skuttunge]]'' (''[[:sv:Skuttunge_socken|sv]]''). The area contains not only raised stones but also 45 grave fields, most dating from the [[Iron Age]], including a [[dolmen]]. The creek is now named after the village.

The area has undergone significant [[post-glacial rebound]], rising approximately 0.5 meters every 100 years. This process has greatly altered the position of the coastline, lakes, rivers, and human settlements over time.

==Notes==
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==References==
*McKinnell, John (2005). ''Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend''. [[Boydell & Brewer|DS Brewer]]. {{ISBN|1-84384-042-1}}

==Sources==
*[[Ynglingatal]]
*[[Ynglinga saga]] (part of the [[Heimskringla]])
*[[Historia Norvegiæ|Historia Norwegiae]]
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