Signhildsberg

Signhildsberg (historically Fornsigtuna, where forn means ancient, Old Sigtuna, Sithun, Signesberg) is a manor that formerly was a royal estate (Uppsala öd), located in the parish of Håtuna approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of the modern town of Sigtuna, by Lake Mälaren in Sweden.

As a basis for this intpretation, a brook south of Signhildsberg has been mentioned, or the fact that the estate was surrounded by marshy terrain.

[3] In Chapter 5 of the Ynglinga saga section of his Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson relates that Odin and the Æsir first arrived at Old Sigtuna when they came to Sweden: Later the pirate Sölve arrived at Old Sigtuna to claim the Swedish throne: In the part called The Saga of St. Olaf, the Norwegian king Olaf Haraldsson makes shore at Old Sigtuna: In Orvar-Odd's saga, Hjalmar laments his dying: Sék hvar sitja Sigtúnum á fljóð þaus löttu farar mik þaðan ; gleðrat Hjálmar í höll konungs öl né rekkar of aldr síðan.

[7] I see where they sit at home in Sigtun, the girls who begged me not to go; no joy for Hjalmar in the hall after this, with ale and men, ever again.

[8] The location is also mentioned in other poems by the 11th-century skalds Þjóðólfr Arnórsson[9] Valgarðr á Velli[10] and Arnórr Þórðarson.