Swedish semi-legendary kings are the long line of Swedish kings who preceded Eric the Victorious, according to sources such as the Norse Sagas, Beowulf, Rimbert, Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, but who are of disputed historicity, due to the fact that many of them appear in more or less unreliable sources. This is especially true of the secondary sources who often either speculate or confuse the kings (see e.g. Erik Emundsson). They are called sagokungar in Swedish, a name that intentionally has the double meanings "fairy tale kings" and "Saga kings". Many belong to the House of Ynglings/Scylfings, others belong to the House of Ragnar Lodbrok and the house of Shieldings.
Few dates and kings in this list are uncontroversial.
House of Ynglings/Scylfings
- continued from Mythological kings of Sweden)
- Aun (late 5th c.)
- Egil(or Ongentheow) (late 5th c. - early 6th c.)
- Ottar (Ohthere) (early 6th c.)
- Ale (Onela) (early 6th c.)
- Adils (Eadgils) (ca 530-ca 575)
- Östen (late 6th c.)
- Sölve (late 6th c.)
- Ingvar (late 6th c.)
- Anund (early 7th c.)
- Ingjald (mid 7th c.)
House of Shieldings and of Ragnar Lodbrok
- Ivar Vidfamne (ca 655-ca 695)
- Harald Hildetand (ca 705-750)
- Randver (early 8th c.)
- Sigurd Ring (ca 750 (sole ruler)-ca 770)
- Ragnar Lodbrok (ca 770-ca 785)
- Östen Beli (late 8th c.)
Considering the fact that Erik (V) Björnsson is said to have ruled for 50 years, the number of kings during the 9th century may strike as odd. However, this may be accounted for by the fact that the Swedes had a system of elective co-rulership where two kings often ruled at the same time (e.g . Björn at Hauge /Anund Uppsale, Eric the Victorious/Olof (II) Björnsson and Haakon the Red/Ingold I) and that we usually don't have acces to that kind of information in the sparse sources. (The kings within parentheses are kings who may not appear in the recital of Swedish kings in the sagas, but who appear in other sources.)
- Björn Ironside (late 8th c. - early 9th c.)
- (Erik Weatherhat?)
- Refil (early 9th c.)
- Erik Björnsson (early 9th c.)
- Erik Refilsson (early 9th c.)
- Anund Uppsale (early 9th c.)
- Björn at Hauge or Björn på Håga (ca 829-ca 831)
- (Björn Björnsson, early 9th c.)
- (Olof Björnsson, mid 9th c.)
- Erik (V) Björnsson (late 9th c.)
- (Ring, ca 910- ca 940)
- (Erik Ringsson, ca 940- ca 950)
- (Emund Eriksson, mid 10th c.)
- (Erik Emundsson or Erik Weatherhat?, mid 10th c.)
- Björn (IV) Eriksson (second half of the 10th c.)
- Olof (II) Björnsson (second half of the 10th c.)
- Eric the Victorious (985 - 995)
- the line of Swedish kings is continued on List of Swedish monarchs