Thyra (874-8 January 935) was the wife of King Gorm the Old of Denmark and the mother of Harald Bluetooth. Unlike many other women of the period, Thyra was known to have led an army into battle against the Germans, and she was known as a woman of great prudence. According to myth, she had a daughter who was carried off to Halogaland by trolls. Thyra died in 935.
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