page_title: Aun
hierarchical_section_title: Aun
caption_attribution_description: English: The eastern of the three large royal tumuli at Old Upsala, this one popularly called Odin’s Mound Odenshögen and through the disputed findings of archaeologist Birger Nerman identified as the grave of a 5th century King Edwin the Old (Aun den gamle), though the identities of the three buried kings also have been interchanged by some writers and completely refuted by othersPlace: Upsala, Sweden
context_page_description: Aun the Old is a mythical Swedish king of the House of Yngling in the Heimskringla.
  Aun was the son of Jorund, and had ten sons, nine of which he was said to have sacrificed in order to prolong his own life. Based on the internal chronology of the House of Yngling, Aun would have died late in the 5th century.
  He was succeeded by his son Egil Vendelcrow
  identified with Ongentheow of the Beowulf narrative and placed in the early 6th century.
context_section_description: Aun the Old (Aun inn gamli, Latinized Auchun, English: "Edwin the Old") is a mythical Swedish king of the House of Yngling in the Heimskringla.
  Aun was the son of Jorund, and had ten sons, nine of which he was said to have sacrificed in order to prolong his own life. Based on the internal chronology of the House of Yngling, Aun would have died late in the 5th century.
  He was succeeded by his son Egil Vendelcrow (Íslendingabók: Egill Vendilkráka)
  identified with Ongentheow of the Beowulf narrative and placed in the early 6th century.
caption: East royal tumulus at Old Upsala, suggested grave of King Edwin the Old
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