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Furby pronounced: Furabua, was incorporated into present-day Badelunda parish a few centuries ago. Furby was previously a parish of its own also in Västerås, which is the western edge of Roslagen in Svealand, Sweden. Furby is a few miles north of the Mälaren Sea upstream in Mälardalen and situated east-near Anundshögen, the ship burial mound of legendary Swedish King Anund. Here is the story:

Braut-Oenundr Yngvarsson, was the son of Yngvarr Eysteinsson, King of the Swedes. He succeeded his father Ingvar to the kingdom at Uppsala and reigned between 545-565. He bestowed great diligence and expense on opening the woods and cultivating the cleared land. He made roads through the desert forests; and thus cleared land is found all through the forest country, and great districts are settled. In this way extensive tracts of land were brought into cultivation, for there were country people enough to cultivate the land. Onund had roads made through all Sweden, both through forests and morasses, and also over mountains; and he was therefore called Onund Roadmaker. He went with his army to Estland to avenge his father, and landed and ravaged the country round far and wide, and returned with a great booty in autumn to Sweden. Braut-Önundr Yngvarsson, King of the Swedes also went by the name of Anund "the Cultivator." He applied for his son, Ingjald, to King Algaut, of Gotland, for his daughter Gauthild. He died. King Onund one autumn, travelling between his mansion-houses, came over a road called Himmenheath, where there are some narrow mountain valleyss, with high mountains on both sides. There was heavy rain at the time, and before there had been snow on the mountains. A landslip of clay and stones came down upon King Onund and his people, and there he met his death, and many with him.

So says Thjodolf, namely:

"We all have heard how Jonkur's sons,

Whom weapons could not touch, with stones
Were stoned to death in open day,
King Onund died in the same way.
Or else perhaps the wood-grown land,
Which long had felt his conquering hand,
Uprose at length in deadly strife,
And pressed out Onund's hated life."

(Ynglinga saga)

See also: Firby in Yorkshire, inheriting this placename.

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For Furby the toy, see Furby_toy.
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