 Upon returning to Norway, she quarrelled with her husband, and slew him with a spearhead she concealed in her gown.Saxo concludes that she then "usurped the whole of his name and sovereignty; for this most presumptuous dame thought it pleasanter to rule without her husband than to share the throne with him".According to Judith Jesch, the rich variety of tales in the first nine books of Saxo's "Gesta", which include the tale of Lagertha, are "generally considered to be largely fictional".