Olof

Queen of Saxland, and mother of Yrsa. Although she is not a really a Valkyrie, the Olof in Hrolfs saga did like dressing in armour and carrying weapons around.

According to the saga of Hrolf Kraki, she was unmarried. She was raped by Helgi, king of Denmark, after she rejected his marriage proposal. She had Yrsa, but she neglected her daughter, and knowing that Helgi would marry her daughter, Olof did not say anything, letting them commit incest. Some time after Hrolf was born, Olof revealed the secret to what seemed to be a happy couple. Both were devastated by the truth, and Yrsa left her father-husband and returned to Olof, only to be married off to Adils, king of Sweden, whom Yrsa despised.

Olof got her revenge on Helgi for raping her, and getting her pregnant with a child whom she never loved.

In the Ynglinga (part of Heimskringla), however, Snorri Sturluson says that Alof (Olof) the Great was married to Geirthjof, the king of Saxland, and that Geirthjof was Yrsa's father, not Helgi of Denmark. Though the saga and the Ynglinga are both Icelandic literature, their traditions seemed to be different in regards to Yrsa's father. Alof's part in the Ynglinga as well as Yrsa's marriage to both Adils and Helgi were different than in the saga. (See Yrsa, Helgi and Adils.)

In Snorri's Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, Olof is not mentioned at all. However, Yrsa and Hrolf are, but neither Eddaic works revealed much about them.

In the Old English epic, Beowulf, Olof is not mentioned at all, and the father of Yrse (Yrsa) is neither Halga (Helgi) nor Geirthjof; her father was Healfdene (Halfdan), which would make Yrse sister to Heorogar, Hrothgar and Halga (Helgi). Also she was not the mother of Hrothulf or Hrolf in this Old English epic.

Queen of Saxland. Olof was both a warrior-queen and sorceress, and she could very well be a Valkyrie. Not only was she beautiful, she was very strong. But her beauty was not matched by her temperament, because she was cruel and arrogant. She wanted no husband, least of all Helgi, king of Denmark.

When Olof rebuffed Helgi by humiliating him – she got him drunk, drugged him to sleep, then shaved off all of his hair and stuck tar all over his body before sticking him a bag and sending him back to his ship. Helgi was powerless against Olof, since she managed to gather her army.