 On the other hand, there is no evidence that the tradition of sending the eldest son of Kievan monarch to Novgorod existed at such an early date.Those scholars who believe that this early Norse wife was not fictitious, suppose that Vladimir could have married her during his famous exile in Scandinavia in the late 970s.They usually refer an account in Ingvars saga (in a part called "Eymund's saga") which tells that Eric VI of Sweden married his daughter to a 'konung of fjord lying to the East from Holmgard'.