After that he went into the north, until he was stopped by the sea, which men thought lay around all the lands of the earth; and there he set his son over this kingdom, which is now called Norway. This king was Sæmingr; the kings of Norway trace their lineage from him, and so do also the
jarls and the other mighty men, as is said in the Háleygjatal.
Njord took a wife called Skade; but she would not live with him and married afterwards Odin, and had many sons by him, of whom one was called Saeming; and about him
Eyvind Skaldaspiller sings thus:[1] --
Sæmingr is also listed among the sons of Odin in the þulur.
But in the prologue of the Heimskringla Snorri mentions that according to a lost stanza of Eyvindr skáldaspillir's Háleygjatal, Sæmingr was the son of Yngvi-Freyr.
The late
Saga of Hálfdan Eysteinsson also reports that Sæmingr was Odin's son. The saga adds that he reigned over
Hålogaland. He married Nauma and had a son called Þrándr.
A Swedish king by the name Semingr (likely the very same name as the Norwegian king of Folklore in an alternate rendering) becomes victim to a
draugr who wields a legendary sword in
The Saga of Hromund Gripsson. A similar name, "Sámr", appears related to characters in both
Hrafnkels saga &
Njáls saga.
Laing, Samuel (trans.),
Anderson, Rasmus B. (rev., notes). 1907. Snorre Sturlason: The Heimskringla: a history of the Norse kings. London: Norrœna society. First published: 1844.