 Section 28 of Hymes Kringle by Snorri Storrelson, translated by George Pope Morris and Iraker Magnusson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The story of Olaf Triggvissen, Chapter 12, Chapter 111 through 122, Chapter 111 of King Olaf's Host. When Earl Sigvaldi and his folk rode in under the home, that saw Thorkall Lydryl from the Crane and the other captains who went with him, how the Earl turned his ships under the home, so they struck sail and rode after them, inhaling them, asked why they feared so. The Earl said that he would lie to for King Olaf, for it looked like that war awaiteth us. So they let their ships drift till Thorkall Nosy came up in the short worm, and the three ships that went with her, the same tale were they told, so they too struck sail and lay to abiding King Olaf. But now when the King sailed in toward the home, then rode the whole host out into the sound to meet them. But when men saw that, they bade the King sail on his way, and not joined battle with so great an host. Then the King answered with a high voice as he stood up in the poop, strike sails, let no men of mine think of flight, never have I fled from battle, let God look to my life, for never will I turn to flight. And so was it done as the King bade, even as Halfred saith, still must the word be told of, which said the men foe gripping. The King, deed mighty, spake there to his lads at fray of weapons, the bower down of sweet ranks for bad his trusty war host to think of flight. The stout word of the people's leader liveth. Chapter 112, King Olaf ordereth his folk. So King Olaf let blow up for the gathering together of all his ships, and the King's ship was in the midst of his battle, but on one board lay the short worm and the crane on the other. But when they set about lashing together the stems of the long worm and the short, and the King saw them at it, he cried out on high, bidding them lay the big ship that are forward and not let it hang back behind all ships in the host. Then answered Wolf the Red, if the worm shall lie as far forward as she is longer than other ships, then there will be windy weather today in the bowels. Sayeth the King, I wanted not that I had a forecastle man, both red and a dread, quote Wolf, void thou the poop with thy back no more than I the bowels with mine. Then the King caught hold of his bow and laid an arrow on the string and turned it on Wolf, said Wolf, shoot another way, King, whereas it will avail thee more for the work I that I work. Chapter 113 of King Olaf. King Olaf stood on the poop of the worm and showed high up aloft a four-guilded shield he had, and a gold-wrought helm, and was easy to know from other men. The short red curdle had he over his burning. Now when King Olaf saw that the hosts were drifting about, and the banners set up before the captains, he asked, who is captain of the host over against us? So it was told him that there was King Spine twybeard with the Dane host. Answered the King, we fear not those blanchers. In Dane's there is no heart, for what captain is behind the banners out there on the right hand. It was told him that there was King Olaf with the sweet host. Sayeth King Olaf better were the Swedes to sit at home licking their blood bowls than sitting on the worm under your weapons. But who is Lord of the big ships that lie out there on the larbord of the Danes? There is Earl Eric Heikensen, said they. Then answered King Olaf, he will deem us well met today, and we may look for full fierce fight from that folk, for they are Northmen as we be. Chapter 114, the beginning of the battle, then fell the kings to the onset, and King Spine laid his ship against the long worm, and King Olaf the sweet lay outward from him, and grappled from the prow the outermost ship of King Olaf Trigvescent, but on the other side lay Earl Eric, and then befell a hard fight. Earl Sigbaldi let hang a back with his ships, nor thrust into the battle, so sayeth Schooley Thor Stunson, who was with Earl Eric that day. The Frisians foe I followed and Sigbaldi. Young got I, life gained, where spears were singing, O now do people find me, where I bore reddened wound leak to the moat against the meter of male thing in the Helmden off's fold mouth in the Southland. And moreover of these tidings, sayeth Halfred, misseems the king fight-framer that tied or much was missing. The following of the Thrand lads much folk do fleeing turn them. The mighty folk would fought their soul against two kings, full dowdy, and an Earl for third foe had he famed want such things to tell of. Chapter 115 The Flight of King Spine and of Olaf the Sweet King. This battle was of the sharpest and great was the fall of men, the forecastlemen of the long worm and the short worm, and the crane cast anchors and grapplings on to the ships of King Spine, and had to bring their weapons to bear it right down under their feet. So clear they all, those ships they grappled, but King Spine and such of his folk as escaped, fled into other ships and therewith drew a back out of shot. So went it with this host, as King Olaf Trigvison had guessed. Then in the place of them fell on Olaf the Sweet King, but so soon as they came not to the big ships, it fared with them as with the others, that they lost much folk and some of their ships, and in such flight drew a back. But Earl Eric laid iron beak aboard the outermost ship of King Olaf and cleared it and cut it adrift from its lashings and then laid aboard that one which was next and fought till that too was cleared, then fell the folk of fling from the lesser ships up onto the bigger, but Earl Eric cut each one adrift from her lashings as he cleared it. Then drew the Danes and Swedes into bow shot again and beset King Olaf's ships all round about, but ever Earl Eric laid aboard the ships and dealt them fight of handy strokes, and ever as men fell aboard his ships came other in the stead of them Swedes and Danes, so saith Halldor. front of sharp swords be tided all round about the long worm lads sheared peace long asunder where golden spears were singing. Tis told that men of Sweden and Dane groves of white legbiders him followed forth in the Southland at wartide of his foemen. Then waxed the battle of the sharpest and much folk fell, but in the end it came about that all the ships of King Olaf Trigvison were cleared saving the long worm and all the folk would come aboard it, who were yet fit for fight of his men. Then Earl Eric laid iron beaker board the long worm and there befell fight of handy strokes, so saith Halldor. midst of hard furth was gotten the long worm. There were cloven the moons of the gallows prowled forth where blood reeds clashed together, where the burning witchwife's wagon laid the board mighty beardling against Thothneer's side and the Earl wrought the helmgale off the island. Chapter 116 of Earl Eric Earl Eric was in the forehold of his ship and a shield berg was arrayed about him. There was both handy stroke and thrusting of spears and all things cast that might make a weapon while some shot with the bow or cast with the hand but such brunt of weapons was born against the worm that scarce might any shield in, so thick flew spears and arrows for the warships lay on the worm all round about. But now were King Olaf's men waxing so wood that they leaped up on the bulwark to the end that they might get stroke of sword to smite folk, but many lay not the worm so nigh aboard that they would come to handy strokes and Olaf's men went most of them overboard and took no more heed than if they fought on the plain mead and so sunk they down with their weapons, so saith Halfred. Smiders of ringwatt war sark sank wounded down from the adder in the fray of arrows peril and know wise there they spared them the worm shall long be lacking such lads as these though glorious the king may be who steers her as neath war host she glided. Chapter 117 of Einar Thambar Skelver. Now Einar Thambar Skelver was aboard the worm aft in the main hold and he shot with the bow and was the hardest shooting of all men. Einar shot at Earl Eric and the arrow smote the tiller head above the head of the Earl and went in up to the shaft binding. The Earl looked there on and asked if they wished to shot and even there with came another arrow so nigh that it flew betwixt the Earl's side and his arm and so on into the staying board of the steersman and the point stood out far beyond. Then spake the Earl to a man whom some named Ben but others some say that he was a Finnish kin and he was the greatest of bowmen and he said shoot me under big man in the straight hold. So Finn shot and the arrow came on Einar's bow even as he drew the third time and the bow burst asunder in the midst then spake King Olaf what break there so loud? As with Einar Norway King from thine hands no such crash as that so the king take my bow and shoot therewith and he cast the bow to him so Einar took the bow and drew it straight way right over the arrow head and said two week two week all wielders bow and cast the bow back then took he his shield and sword and fought manfully. Chapter 118 King Olaf bringeth his men sharp swords King Olaf Trigvissen stood on the poop of the worm and shot full off that day whilst with the bow and whilst with javelins and ever twain at once now looked he forward on the ship and saw his men heave up sword and smite full fast but saw with all that they bit but ill so he cried out loud is it because ye raise your sword so dully that I see that none of ye bite so a man answered our swords are dull and all too sharded then went the king down into the forehold and unlocked the chest of the high seat and took that many sharp swords and gave them to his men but as he stretched down his right hand men saw that the blood ran down from under his burning sleeve but none whisked where he was wounded. Chapter 119 they go up on to the long worm now the most defense on the worm and the most murders to men was of those of the forehold and the forecastle for neither place was the most chosen folk and the bull work highest but the folk began to fall first amid ships but now when as but few men were on their feet about the mast Earl Eric fell to boarding and came up on to the worm with 14 men then came against him herning brother-in-law of King Olaf with a company of men and there befell the hardest battle but such was the end of it that the Earl drew a back on to iron beak and of those men who followed him some fell and some were wounded here of telleth thord coal bind some there was upraised the warden around the gory harrowed walls of the king's hosts and there herning who turned the blue swords edges got good word erot dithe shall the high fells haul be fallen and yet again was the battle of the sharpest and many men fell aboard the worm but when the crew of the worm waxed then for the warden then Earl Eric fell on again to come up on to her and yet again was his meeting hard but when the forecastle men of the worm saw this they went after and turned against the earl to defend them and dealt him a hard meeting nevertheless whereas there was so much folk fallen aboard the worm that the bull works were widely wasted men the earl's men came aboard on every side and all the folk that yet stood upon their feet for the warding of the worm fell aback where as the king was so sayeth hauled her the unchristened telling how Earl Eric cheered on his men back shrank the folk with Olaf across the thwarts when glad heart the earl cheered on his war lads the dowdy in the battle when they had locked the shipboards around the king of howland bounteous of seaplane tidied sort of round that wind slayer chapter 120 the clearing of the long worm now Cole Bjorn the marshal went up on to the poop to the king and much alike were the enraiment and weapons and Cole Bjorn also was the fairest and biggest of men and now once more in the forehold was the battle full fierce but because so much folk of the earl was gotten aboard the worm as the ship might well hold and his ships also lay close all round about the worm and but a few folk were left for warding her against so great and host now albeit those men were both strong and stout of heart yet there in short space felt the more part of them but king Olaf himself and Cole Bjorn leaped overboard either on his own board but the earl's men had put forth small boats and slew such as leaped into the deep so when the king himself leaped into the sea they would have laid hands on him and brought him to earl Eric but king Olaf threw up his shield over him and sank down into the deep sea but Cole Bjorn the marshal thrust his shield under him to guard him from the weapons thrust up at him from the boats that lay below and in such wise he came into the sea that his shield was under him so that he sank not so speedily but that they laid hand on him and drew him up into a boat and they deemed of him that he was the king so he was led before the earl and when the earl was where that it was Cole Bjorn and not king Olaf then was peace given to Cole Bjorn but even at this point of time leaped overboard from the worm all king Olaf's men that were yet alive and half would say if that thork or nosy the king's brother leaped overboard the last of all the raster of the arm stone saw the crane floating empty and either out of glass some he read in spear in the battle ere the fight during bold heart thorn kettle deft at swimming fled from huge point of battle off board the wolf of tackle chapter 121 of the wendland cutter now as is a for rid earl Sigvaldi had fallen into fellowship with king Olaf in wendland and had 10 ships with him but an 11th there was where on were the men of astrid the king's daughter wife of earl Sigvaldi but when as king Olaf leaped overboard then all the hosts cried the cry of victory and they were with Earl Sigvaldi and his men dashed their oars into the water and rode into the battle here of telethhalder the uncristened from wide away the wend ships drew or the sea together and thriddy's lands lean monsters on the folk yawned iron throated swords then at sea betided wolf's fair the urn was tearing there fought the lads dear leader and fled for many a war host but the wendland cutter where on were astrid's men rode away and back under wendland and the talk of many it was then and there that king Olaf will have done off his burning underwater and so dived out under the long ships and swum for the wendland cutter and that astrid's men brought him to land and many of the tales told thereafter by some men about king Olaf's fairings nevertheless in this wise sith hall fred i what not one or the other to call him dead or living the soother of muse of clatter of the sheen of leifie's sea deer since either tale folk tell me for true and this is certain that wounded must the king be and tidings of him fail us and how so ever it may have been never more thans forward came olaf trigmason back to his realm of norway but thus seith hall fred the troubless called the man who said that living was the folks king all his life long was the point shaking servant of the guile shy son of trigby and so folks say that olaf got him from out the steel stone are wide from truth their words are row worth that all is worser and again when veins fell on with folk host on the king the hearty hearted ian as i learned then would not such luck befall his land's folk as that the swear of hands ice of worser manifolded from such an host should get him and yet folk deem it likely still will some tell the wealth wise of the king and battle wounded or of his coming safely forth from the clash of metal but soothed from the south land cometh of the great play and his slaying nor many things now may I with the wavering word of min folk chapter 122 of earl eric so had earl eric gotten the long worm and the victory and a great prey as seith halter did the long worm bore him the lord with helm be quaffed to the thing of swords full mighty and the folk adorned their shipboard right glad the earl took over the adder south in the warden but hemming's highborn brother ere that must fredden edges now spine the son of earl hey con had wedded home for the daughter of olaf the sweet king but when they shared the realm of norway between them the dame king the sweet king and earl eric then had olaf the sweet king for a folklands in thrand time both the mirrors and romsdale and realm realm from the gout delft to swine sound this dominion king olaf delivered into the hands of earl spine on such covenant as the scat paying kings or earls had held it before time of the over kings but earl eric had four counties in thrand time ologaland and namdale and first and fulire sogon and horde land rogueland north agder out to lid dan disness so seith thord coal bison what i that save for earling most hercers earths were friendly unto the earls here sing i the tire of the flame of shipland fight done and all the land lay at peace north all from veiga to agder south or further maybe i chose words rightly now folk well pleased of their ruler to love their lot well like them and he gave out he was bound into whole land over norway but spine the king the tale goes is dead now in the southland and his towns with all are wasted but fewer folk will fail it spine the dane king had still the wick even as he had a foretime but he gave earl eric realm realm and heathmark spine haykinson took heraldom from olaf the swede earl spine was the goodliest man ever seen earl eric and earl spine both let themselves be christened and took the right troth but whilst they ruled over norway they let every man do as he would about the holding of the faith but the ancient laws they held well and all customs of the land and were men of upright rule and well-beloved earl eric was by far the foremost of the brethren in all authority end of the story of olaf trigvison part 12 chapter 111 through 122 section 29 of hymes gringla by snorrie stirrelson translated by george pope morris and iraq or magnuson this liver vox recording is in the public domain the story of olaf the holy part 1 chapter 1 through 15 chapter 1 the bringing up of olaf the holy son of herald olaf the son of herald of greenland who was brought up with his stepfather sigurd sal and his mother asta ronnie the white fairing was with asta and he gave fostering to king olaf heraldson olaf was early a well-food man goodly to look at of middle height and wise and deft of speech he was at an early age sigurd sal was a great husbandman and kept his full card at work and himself fared often to look after acres and meadows or livestock or to the smithing or wheresoever his men were busy at other things chapter two of olaf and king sigurd sal on a time it befell that king sigurd would ride away from his house and no man was home at the stead so he bet olaf his steps on to saddle him a horse olaf went to the goat house and took there the biggest buck goat and led it home and laid there on the saddle of the king and then went and told him he had harnessed him the nag then went king sigurd didder and saw what olaf had done then said heat is clearly now that thou art minded to wash thine hands of all my bidding be like that mother deemeth it seemly that i have no biddings to thee that are not to thy mind and it is easily seen that we are not like in temper for thou art of mickel higher metal than i olaf answered little and went away laughing chapter three of the prowess of king olaf olaf heraldson as he grew up was a man of scarce high middle stature but very thick set and stark with hue light red of hair broad faced bright and ruddy of countenance of eyes wonders good fair eyed and swift eyed so that it was awful to look him in the face if he were wroth olaf was a man of mickel skill in many matters he knew well the craft of the bow and of all men was the best in shooting of hand shot a good swimmer deft and skillful in all smith's work his own no less than other men's he was called olaf the thick he was bold of speech and clear spoken early fulfilled of all right miss both as to pith and wisdom beloved was he of all his kindred and acquaintance masterful in games and would be at the head of all others as was but due because of his dignity and birth chapter four the beginning of the wars of king olaf son of herald was 12 winters old when he stepped on board a warship for the first time asked to his mother got rani who was called king's foster to be leader of the host and to be with olaf in his sparing whereas rani had often been on viking before when olaf took over host and ships the host gave him the name of king as the want was for such war kings as became by kings bore forthwith the name of a king if they were king born although they had no lands to rule over rani sat at the tiller and therefore some men say that olaf was but a full man yet he was king over the host not withstanding they made east along the land and first done to danmark so says otter the sport when he sang about king olaf king fight strong yet a youngling the steed of the blood of meadows didst thou thrust out toward denmark thou to dear valor wanted most gainful was thy going oh king now art thou mighty through such like prowess learned i clear of thy fair from north land but when it was harvest he sailed east round the swede realm and then fell to harry and burned the land for he deemed he had to requite the swede's with full enmity for taking the life of his father herald otter the sport says in plain words that he went then east out of denmark landward ye thrust with ore blades the brave ships into the east salt and bore the shields of lime tree down from the land a shipboard ye used your sail and shipped ye your water the sea caster wiles rent your oars the many much road great seas beneath you beater of swans of fight ale two folk was fear abounding because of thy fairing sithence thou wasted sweden's nesses chapter five the first battle that autumn olaf fought the first battle of satisker which is within the skirries of sweden there he fought with vikings and he is named soti who was their captain and olaf had much less company but bigger ships he laid his ships between some sea rocks and for the vikings it was unhandy to lay them aboard they olaf and his folk brought grappling hooks aboard the ships that lay nice to them and drew them in and then cleared them the vikings made off and had lost a great host of men scald sigbot tells of this fight in the song in which he told the tale of the fights of king olaf the long sea log was bearing the young king's kindred seaward and so it was that all folk sithenced the king's wrath dreaded but he admit the noblest the first time wolf's foot reddened at soti's skiri east there of many a thing i mined me chapter six warfare in sweden king olaf next went on east by sweden and put into the low and harried on either land he went all the way up to sigton and lay off ancient sigton so say the swedes that there be still there the stone heaps which olaf let be made under his gang way ends but when autumn set in olaf heraldson got to know that olaf the sweet king drew together a great host and also that he had done chains a fort stock sound and set guard there over but the sweet king was of mind that king olaf would there by the frosts and he held olaf's host of little worth for he had but a small company so king olaf went out to stock sound and might not get through there for a castle was on the west side of the sound and a host of men on the south but when they heard that the sweet king was gone aboard ship and had a great host and a multitude of ships king olaf let dig a dike through agnese threat into the sea at this time great rains prevailed now from all sweden every running water falls into the low and out to sea there is one voice from the low so narrow that many rivers be wider but when great rains or snow thaws prevailed the waters fall with such a rush that through stock sound the water runs in a force and the low goes so much upon the lands that wide about be floods now when the dike got to the sea then leaped out the water and the stream then king olaf let take inboard all the rudders of his ships and hoist all sails top mast high and there was a high wind at wheel blowing they steered with the oars and the ships went a pace out over the shoal and came all whole into the sea then the Swedes went to see olaf the sweet king and told him that by then olaf the thick had got him away out into the sea so the sweet king raided soundly those who should have watched that olaf got not away that is now called king's sound and there is no passing with big ships there saved when the water swell to their utmost but some men will have it that the Swedes got aware when as olaf and his folk had dug the dike through the thwaite and the water rushed through and with all that the Swedes went there with a host of men being minded to balk olaf from passing through but as the water dug out either side then fell in the banks and with them the people and a multitude of men was lost there but the Swedes gained save this and reckoned it vain that any men were lost there king olaf sailed in autumn for godland and arrayed him for harrying there but there the godlanders had a gathering and sent men to the king and bat him tribute for the land to this the king agreed and took tribute of the land and sat there the winter through so says otter the sword thou one is a warrior wager tribute from folk of godland and there's not men against thee with brand toward their island so ran the isle sislings or host i heard that the wolf kinds hunger thought east away that youngling calls many lesser hearted chapter seven the second battle here tells the tale that king olaf went in spring tide east to isle sisla and harried he made a land raid there and the isle sislings came down and held battle with him there king olaf had the victory drove the route and harried and wasted the land so it is said that first when king olaf and his came into isle sisla the bonders offered him pay and when the pay came down he went to meet them with and host all weapons and then things went otherwise then the bonders were minded for they came down with no pay at all but with war weapons rather and gave the king battle as was said before so says skull sigbot again it was that olaf went to wage a second point thing down in the ravaged isle land nor hidden was the treason all wielder there the yeoman who ran to their feet were owing the ransom for dear life's sake for wounds a field few waited chapter eight the third fight so then sees sail back to finland and harried there and made land raids but all the folk fled into the woods and emptied the dwelling places of all chattels the king fared far up into the land and through certain woods there they came upon some dale dwellings where the country's sides are called herdales they got but few chattels and no men then the day war and the king turned back to his ships but as they came into the wood and host wronged on them from every side and shouted them and set on hard and fast the king bad his men shield themselves and smite again as occasions served but that was unhandy for the fins let the wood ward them but or ever the king came out of the wood he lost a many men and many got wounded and so reached his ships in the evening the fins made in the night wild weather and storm at sea with their sorcery but the king let way anchors and hoist sail and so they beat through the night about the land so that time as often are the kings good luck prevailed against the wizardry of the fins that night they got clear of balagar side and thence out into the open sea but the host of the fins went along up on land as the king sailed outside so says sigbat the third one of the steel reeds of the king's son waxed hard now when was the fin folks meeting in the stark raid on herdales the sea waves there were smiting the galleys of the vikings in the low where balagar side laid neath the boughs of the surf skates chapter nine the fourth battle in southwick then king olav sailed to danmark and there happened on thorkle the high the brother of url sigvaldi and thorkle betook himself to journeying with him for he was already arrayed to fare out to the wars so they sailed south along jutland side and to where it was called southwick and there one many viking ships the vikings who lay out ever and ruled over a great host let them be called kings though they had no lands to rule over here king olav gave battle and a great fight befell and king olav got the victory and much wealth so says sigbat the king wants more as folks say wielded uprise of guns song the fourth time i've heard how the warrior white one glory there whereas peace unlittle was cleft betwixt the king's hosts down there in slender southwick well known unto the dane folk chapter 10 the fifth battle off frieze land then king olav sailed south to frieze land and lay off kinlim side in heavy weather so the king went to land with his host but the folk of the land rode down to meet them and fought with them so says sigbat the scald oh cower of evil doers the fifth of fights thou oneest helm grim the bows fold tempest by high kinlima side then whereas rode down the war host against the lord king's galleys but stately strode the king's host against the warriors in the battle chapter 11 the death of spine why beard then sailed king olav west to england this was the tidings there that spine twybeard the dane king was that time in england with the dane host and had been sat there for a while and harry the land of king ethyl red at that time the danes had gone white over england and things had come to such a past that king ethyl red had fled from the land and fared south into val land the same autumn that king olav came to england it betid there that king's vine the son of herald died suddenly a night in his bed and it is the say of englishmen that adam and the holy did slay him after the manner in which the holy mercury slew julian the apostate now when king ethyl red learned these tidings in flanders he turned straightway back to england and when he came back into the land he sent word to all men who would take fee here too to it for conquering the land with him then drifted to him a great multitude of folk and with all the other came to his aid king olav with a great following of north men now first they made for london and went up the tims with the host of the ships but the danes held the city on the other side of the river there is a great cheaping town called south work there the danes had great a rail they had dug great dykes on the inner side where of they had built a wall of wood and turf and stone and there within they had a great host king ethyl red let make a hard onset but the danes warded them and king ethyl red might do not against them a bridge was there across the river betwixt the city and south work so broad that wagons might be driven past each other there over on the bridge were made strong holds both castles and bulwarks looking downstream so high that they reached a man above his waist but under the bridge were pales stuck into the bottom of the river and when an onset was made the host stood on the bridge all along it and warded it king ethyl red was michael mind sick how he was to win the bridge he called together for a parley all the captains of the host seeking counsel of them how they should bring the bridge down then king olav said he would risk laying his men on to it if other captains were willing to set on also at this meeting it was settled that they should lay their host up under the bridge then each one set about arraying his men and ships chapter 12 the sixth battle king olav had great flake hurdles made of willow twigs and greenwood and let sheds of wicker work be taken to pieces and all these he let lay over his ship so widely that they went right outboard there under he let set staves so thick together and so high that it was both handy to fight from under and it was full stout enough against stones if they were cast down there on now when the host was arrayed they fell on a rowing up the river and when they came near to the bridge there was cast down on them both shot and stone so great that not might hold neither helms nor shields and the ships themselves were wondrous broken thereby and many with all backed out but king olav and the host of the north men rode right up under the bridge and lashed cables around the pales that upheld the bridge and then they fell to their oars and rode all the ships downstream as hard as they might the pales dragged along the ground even until they were loosened under the bridge but in as much as an host under weapons stood thickly arrayed on the bridge there were on it both on many stones and many war weapons and the pales having broken from under the bridge broke down by reason thereof and many of the folk fell into the river and all the rest thereof fled from the bridge some into the city some into south work and after this they made an onset on south work and won it and when the town's folk saw that the river tims was won so that they might not hinder the ships from faring up into the land they were afraid and gave up the town and took king athelred in so says otter the sword oh battle bold the cunning of igs storm yet thou breakest down london bridge it happed thee to win the land of snakes there hard shields be craved had roar there there too they sprang asunder hard iron rings of the war coats therewith the battle waxed and still he sang this thou broughtst to land and landest king athelred oh landward strengthened by might that folk friend such wise of thee availed hard was the meeting soothly when edmund's son thou brought us back to his land made peaceful which arse that kin stem ruled yet again thus says sigvat true is it that the sixth fight was whereas fell on Olaf at london bridge the swift king bad igs brought to the english there were the welsh swords biting there dyke the vikings warded but some deal of the warhost held booths in level south work chapter 13 the seventh battle king olaf was with king athelred through the winter then they had a great fight on ring marheeth in wolf cal's land that dominion belonged then to wolf cal snilling there the kings won the victory so says sigvat the scald yet once again let olaf be held a seventh sword thing it was in wolf cal's country ian as my song here saith there stood the ellis kindred the ring marheeth all over the host fell wrought the toil there the ward of herald's airship yet again otter tells of this fight thus oh king i heard that thy warhost piled up a dead heap heavy far from the ships and reddened all ring marheeth in blood there they're thick and fast before the in shield roar land folk lauded and many a band of english in fight fell ere the end was then the land was yet wider laid under the sway of king athelred but the thing meant and the dain still held many bergs in any many places the dain's yet held the land chapter 14 battles the eighth and ninth king olaf was captain of the host when they held on to canterbury and fought there right on until they won the town killing and host of folk there and burning the town so says otter the sport thou roddest king great onset on the king's kin canterbury the broad upon a morning of thou blithe king thou tookest full fiercely or the dwellings played fire and reek fair kin's son thou winnest the fight there heard i thou smotest down men's life days sigbat counts this the eighth fight of king olaf i watt that the battle's meter peril of wends here wrought him the eighth of stowers the stark ward of war folk set on the work there port reeves might not ban olaf of their town of canterbury to the valiant of the port folk was many a thing brought sorrow there upon king olaf had in hand the guarding of the land in england and went with warships about off the coast and hove into new mouth there was before him and host of the thing men and they had battle and king olaf won the victory so says sigbat the skull the young king all unlagged wrought red poles for the english brown blood came on the brands there once more in fight at new mouth there fell the host of dane folk where drave most spears on olaf fight wielder from the east land now have i rhymed nine battles there upon king olaf fared wide about the land and took tribute from the folk or else harried them so says otter oh far famed king in no wise the folk of the can of england might ought prevail against thee when scat thou tookest relentless unsell them were folk yielding go to their leaf lord rightful whilst her die things full pressures fared down unto the sea strand there king olaf tarry this time for three winters chapter 15 the 10th battle in ring furth but in the third spring king of the red died and then his sons edmund and edward took kingdom then king olaf went south over sea and he fought with all in ring furth and won a castle on the nose wherein the viking sat and he broke down the castle so says sigbat the skull the tenth was all fulfilled with the drift of the wall of battle in ring furth there the war host held thither as the king bad there let the king be broken the nose high house of the vikings thereafter prayed they never forced speeding such as that was end of the story of olaf the holy part one chapter one through 15 section 30 of heim's cringla by snorrie stirrelson translated by george pope morris and iraqur magnuson this the bivouac's recording is in the public domain the story of olaf the holy part two chapter 16 through 30 chapter 16 battle the 11th and the 13th then king olaf went with his host west to grisly pool and fought there with vikings off williams by and their king olaf won the victory as sigbat says 11th stour oh olaf thou roddest where the lords fell in grisly pool oh pine stem young from that war thing came stow heard i that yawn brisk battled fought off the town of the trusty url william harmed the war helms the tale to tell is little next thereafter he fought west in fetal furth as says sigbat the fair fames follower reddened the wolf's tooth for the 12th time in fetal furth was faded there at life ban of many then so lot fared south right away to sell you pool and had a fight there and there he won the town called gun volzberg a great and an ancient one and there he laid hands on the url who ruled over the town and height gear thin then king olaf held parlay with the men of the town and he laid a fine upon it and claimed in ransom for the url 12 000 gold shillings and the money he laid on the town was paid him so says sigbat oh bright lord of the fran folk the 13th stour thou roddest at sell you pool in southlands where slain was very fleeing dowdy the king let march into gun volzberg the ancient and on the url lay hand there who had to name ian gear thin chapter 17 fight the 14th and king olaf's dream after that king olaf went with his host west to charles water and harry there and there had a battle that while king olaf lay in charles water and waited for fair wind being minded to sail on to north his sound and thence out into jerusalem world he dreamt a noteworthy dream that there came to him a man noble looking and well favored yet awful to behold and spoke to him bidding him give up his mind of faring out into far off lands there back to the lands of thy birth right for thou shalt be a king of norway for a time everlasting he deemed the dream to be token that he should be king over the land and his kinsmen after him for a long time chapter 18 battle the 15th from this vision he turned back his ways and laid him against pita land plow two and harry there and burnt there the cheaping stead called warrand so says otter oh young king battle mary pita thou let's be wasted thou tried shields bestainted in tescal and oh lord king and still further sigbat says thus the lord above the mere folk reddener of mouths of metal when from the south he wended made way along lower water before those new words of battle was warned burned so called they a town far off the seaboard in dwelt in pita country chapter 19 of the urls of ruam king olaf had been a warring west in the land for two summers and one winter at that time there had worn from the fall of olaf trig vison 13 winters that while urls had ruled over norway first eric and spine the sons of hay con and afterwards the sons of eric spine and hay con and hay con was the son of a sister of king canute spineson in the land that while were two urls william and robert whose father was richard url of ruam and they ruled over normandy their sister was queen emma whom et al red king of the english had had for wife their sons were edmund and edward the good edwy and edgar richard url of ruam was the son of richard the son of william long spear he was the son of roth wendafoot the url who won normandy who was the son of rognavall the mighty url of mir as is written of four from roth wendafoot are come the urls of ruam who long thereafter claimed kinship with lords in norway and set store thereby for a long while after and were at all times the greatest friends of all northmen and all northmen had peace land in normandy if they cared to take it in the autumn king olav came into normandy and tarried there through the winter in sign sin water and had there a land of peace chapter 20 of inar tham bar skelfer after the fall of king olav trigvescent url eric gave truce to inar tham bar skelfer the son of eindred the son of star scar inar went with the url north into norway and it is said that inar was of all men the strongest and best bowmen in norway and the hardness of his shooting beyond all other men he shot with a blunt shack through an ox hide raw wet which hung on a pole he was skilled at snow shooing better than any other man and was a man of the greatest prowess and valor of great kin he was and wealthy with all url xerric and spine gave to inar their sister burglue the daughter of hay con she was a woman most high meddled their son was called eindred the urls gave to inar great grants in orc dale and he became the mightiest and noblest man within the laws of frantheim and the greatest stay and the dearest friend through the urls was he chapter 21 of urlings georgson when as olav trigvescent ruled over norway he gave his brother-in-law urling half the land dues along with him and therewith a moiety of the king's revenues between lid dan disness and sagun king olav wedded another sister of his to url rogden nevald the son of wolf who for a long time ruled over west goutland wolf the father of rogden nevald was brother to sigrid the haughty the mother of olav the swede king url eric was not well pleased at urlings having so michael dominion and he took to himself all the king's revenues which king olav had made over to urling but urling took just as before all land dues throughout rogaland so that the dwellers of the land paid off in two fold land dues for otherwise he wasted the dwelt land of fines and forfeitures the url gap but little for bailiffs might not hold out long bear and even the url himself went to banquet in there only if he had a throng of men about him so says sigbot the brother-in-law of olav that trustiest son of trigvi ian erling awed the url's kin as the king's own self availed not the nimble lord of the yeoman gave also unto rogden nevald another of his sister's life luck unto wolf's father url eric did not venture upon fighting with urling for this cause that he had many and great kinsmen a mighty man and well love moreover he sat all the way with many folk about him even as if there were a king's court erling was often a warring in summer tide and got wealth to himself thereby whereas he kept up his wanted state and lordliness although now he had lesser revenue and of less surety than in the days of king olav his brother-in-law erling was of all men the goodliest the biggest and strongest skilled at arms better than any man and in all feats of prowess most like unto king olav trigvi ian he was a wise man and eager minded in all things and the greatest warrior with all whereof sigbot telleth none was there of the landed of those that lacked of lordship who more of fights had fought in than had the mighty erling the bounteous man was bearing his pith into the onset first entering many a battle and last for the most part leaving it has always been the say of men that erling was the noblest of all landed lords in norway these were the children of erling and astrid aslak skeog sigurd loden thorir and ragnahill whom thorberg son of arney had to wife erling had ever about him ninety freed men or more and the want there was winter and summer to have drinking by measure at day meal board but at night meal board the drink was not measured but at those times when the urls were an eye he had about him two hundred men or more never went he about with fewer men than a twenty banked yield full man erling had a large cutter of two and thirty banks and large of haul at that in her he went to viking warfare and to the folk levy and aboard her were two hundred men or more chapter twenty two of erling the her sir erling had ever thirty thralls at home besides other serving folk to his thralls he allotted each day's work which being done he gave them leave and leisure each one who wished to work for himself in the desk or at night he gave them acre land where into so corn for themselves and to get them money by the increase thereof he set a price and ransom on each of them and many redeemed themselves the first or the second year but all in whom was any thrift redeemed themselves in three years with that money erling bought himself other thralls but as for his freedmen some he set to herring fishing some about other in gatherings while some cleared woods and in the clearing setup house all of them he made folk of some substance chapter twenty three of earl eric when as earl eric had had sway over norway for twelve renters there came to him word from canute the dain king his brother-in-law that eric should go with him on warfare to england with his host for eric was much famed for his wars in that he had gained the day in two battles of those which had been the most fiercely fought in the northlands one wherein earl hay con and eric fought the jams vikings the other wherein eric fought with olav trigvison as telleth thord coal bison praise have i where as heard i how that the lord be praised it sent word to the lord the helm want the lord of lords be landed that without fail should eric yet once again be take him to dear and love some meeting well what i the king's pleasure the earl would not lay the king's message under his head he fared out of the land but he left behind earl hay con his son to heed the land and gave him into the hand of inar thambark skelfer his brother-in-law that he should be the earl's counselor in the ruling of the land for he was as yet not older than seventeen winters eric came to england and met king canute and was with him when he won london earl eric fought to the west of london where he felled wolf cal snilling so say a thord coal bison the gold wise let join battle unto the west of london the well-praised grove of the seahorse held battle for the land's sake therein it was that wolf cal all daring in the field rain got sore strokes of the thingmen where shook warfolk's blue edges earl eric was in england one winter and had certain battles but the next autumn he was minded to go on a pilgrimage to rome but therewith he died of a bloodletting there in england chapter of twenty four the slaying of edmund king canute had many battles in england with the sons of ethel red king of the english and now one now the other got the victory he came to england the same summer wherein ethel red died then canute gap for wife emma the queen and their children were herald for the canute goon hilled king canute made such peace with king edmund that each of them should have one half of england in the same month edrick striona slew king edmund whereupon king canute drove out of england all the sons of king ethel red so says sigrat canute slew therewith all sons together of ethel red or drove forth each one chapter 25 of olof and the sons of ethel red that summer came the sons of ethel red the king of ron in valand to the brothers of their mother when as olof herald son came from his western biking fair and were all together that winter in normandy and made fellowship between them on such terms that king olof should have northumberland if they should get for themselves england from the danes then sent olof to england that autumn ronnie his foster father to gather folk there and the sons of ethel red sent him with tokens to their friends and kinsmen but olof handed to him much money to the end that he should lure folk to them and so ronnie abode in england through the winter and got the faith and troth of many mighty men for to the folk of the land it was more to their will to have a homeborn king yet by then was the might of the danes wax and so great that all the folk of the land were broken under their dominion chapter 26 a battle of king olof in the spring they went from the west all together king olof to wit and the sons of ethel red and came to england at the place called young ford and there went a land with their company and made for the town therein were awaiting them many folks such as had promised them their aid the town they took and slew of many men but when the men of king canute were aware there of they gathered together and host and soon waxed so many that the sons of ethel red had not strength against them and saw that the best they might do was to get them gone and away west back to ronnie again then king olof sundered him from them and would not go to val land he sailed north along england all the way to north umberland and hoved to in the haven which is called walled and fought there with the town's folk and chapman and got the victory there and much wealth chapter 27 the journey of king olof to norway king olof left the long ships behind there but fitted out thence to round ships and had been 260 men all burnied and well chosen he sailed north into the main in harvest tide and had right heavy weather at sea so that there was peril of life but whereas they had a dowdy company and the good luck of the king they got safely through so says otter oh bounteous of the tempest of corpse fire thou arraised toward two westland keels in peril oft thrusts thou king's thought mate strong stream of sea waves welter the cheaping ships had mangled if at that while less worthy had been the crew within board and again thus not had ye fear of eye gear all or the wide seafaring no folk lord found him ever crew doubtier than your sea lads oh son of herald often the craft was strained full sorely but the ship cast off the high seas or air he made mid norway here it is said that king olof came from the west upon the midmost of norway and the island where they landed is called seal and lies off stod then king olof that he was minded to think it was a happy day on which they had landed at seal in norway and said it would be a good token that so it had come to pass then they went up on the island and the king stepped with one foot into mire steadying him with the other knee then spake ye lo now i fell says the king then answers ronnie thou false not king but set as thy feet fast in the land the king laughed there at and said so may it be if god will then they went down to the ships and sailed south to wolf sounds there they heard of url hay con that he was south in sogon but was looked for to come north so soon as a fair wind befell and but one ship he had chapter 28 url hay con taken in sound sound king olof steered his ships inward out of the high waterway when he came south past but julier and turned into sound and lay there each ship they laid near either shore of the sound and had between them a thick cable at the very hour rode into the sound url hay con ericsson with a fully manned cutter he and his men thinking that but two Chapman ships were in the sound so into the sound they rode forth between the ships now king olof and his men hauled the cable up under mid keel of the cutter winding it with wind losses and forth with when the cutter was fast it rose apt and sank forward so that the sea fell in over the prowl filling the cutter which presently turned over king olof took their url hay con swimming and all such it as many as they might lay hand on but some they slew and other some sank to the bottom so says atar beater of blood seas blue chests fulfilled of wealth bout turkish the brave found hay cons cutter and then with all aboard it feeder of mu of throts thing a youngling sought style hither thy birth lands rightly craving nor might the url withstand it url hay con was led on board the king's ship he was the goodliest man that men had set eyes on nickel hair he had and fair as silk and a golden band done about his head he took his seat in the forehold then said king olof no lie is it that is told of you kinsman how well favored you are to look on but gone now is the luck of you then spake hay con this is no ill luck which we had fallen on it has long been that now one now the other is overcome so has it fair betwixt my kinsman and thine that now one now the other has come to his above i'm come but a little away from the age of childhood nor were we now in a good way to defend ourselves we wanted not any unpeace at hand maybe some other time we shall come off better than now then answers king olof does thou not missed out the url that now a thing hath befallen thee whereby henceforth thou wilt never gain or lose the day the url says as at this time thou oh king must be master then says king olof what wealth thou do url that i let thee fair for this time whether so ever thou willest hold and unscathed the url asks what he bideth him the king answers not else than that thou fare from the land and give up thy dominion and swear oath to this that thou wilt hold no battle against me from henceforth the url answered and gave out that so would he do now the url wenteth oath to king olof that never henceforth shall he fight against him nor defend nor wait with unpeace against king olof nor fall on him then king olof gave life to him and his men with all and the url got back the ship which he had had so wrote men now their ways dense here i've tell us about the scald the mighty king the fame fame quote he had need be seeking a meeting with url hay con in saud dung sound the ancient the stern young lord there met he the url of urls the second and born of highest kindred of all men of the dane tongue chapter 29 url hay con's journey from norway thereafter the url got him ready at his speediest to leave the land and sailed west to england where he fell in with king canute his mother's brother and tells him how all had gone between him and king olof king canute gave him a wondrous good welcome he set hay con at his side within his court and gave him great dominion in his realm and so url hay con tarried there along while with canute when spine and hay con ruled over norway they made peace with urling skeog son with this covenant that ours like the son of urling got four wife goon hilled the daughter of url spine and they settled that father and son urling and asslack should have all those grants which olof trigveson had bestowed on urling so urling became four friend of the urls and here too they bound themselves with oaths to each other chapter 30 asta makes ready king olof the thick now turns east away along the land and had in many places moats with the bonders and many became his liegemen while some gain said it such to wit as were kinsmen or friends of url spine therefore king olof went with all speed east to wick and hoeved with his host into the bay and beaches his ships and then turns his ways up into the land and when he came to west fold many men greeted him well of them who had been acquaintance or friends of his father and there were a many of his kindred there about the fold in the harvest tide he went upland to king sigurd his stepfather and came there early on a day but when king olof came near to the homestead certain serving lads ran before to the house and into the chamber there within sat asta the mother of king olof and some women with her then the lads told her of king olof's journey and this with all that his speedy coming was to be looked for asta stands up forthwith and called upon carls and queens to dite the place at their best she let four women take the array of the guest chamber and adorn it speedily with hangings and bankers two men bore in home onto the floor to set up the trapeza and the great bowl to set out the boards and served up the widow to she sent away from the stead to bore in the ale but all the rest men and women alike went out into the guard those sent away went to king sigurd where he was and brought him his robes of a state and a horse with a foregilded saddle and the bit beset with smalts and all done with gold four men she sent away into all four corners of the countryside and bad to her all the great people there for a banquet whereas she was making a welcome ale for the coming of her son all other men who were there at home she bad dawn the best ramus they had and lent good clothes to those who own none sucked themselves end of the story of olah the holy part two chapter 16 through 30 section 31 of heims gringlet by snorri sterlson translated by george port morris and our recurr magnuson this librivox recording is in the public domain the story of olah the holy part three chapter 31 through 45 chapter 31 the array of king sigurd king sigurd sow happened to be out in the fields when the messengers came to him and told him of these tidings and of all the to-do that aster was at in the house at home he had a many men there some of whom cut corn some bound it some carted it home while others some stacked it or stored it into barns but the king and two men with him would whilst be going into the acres whilst there whereas the corn was being stored of his array it is told that he had on a blue curdle blue hose and high shoes laced to the lake a gray cape he had on and a wide brimmed gray hat and an oral round the face a staff in his hand with four gilded silver knob and a silver ring therein so as it told about king sigurd's manner of mind that he was a man of michael business and a great husband of his stock and store and looked himself after his own household no man of show was he and rather few spoken with all he was the wisest of all men who were then in norway and wealthiest in chattels peaceful with all was he not griping asked his wife was open-handed and high-medaled these were their children guthorn was the oldest then goon hill then half dan then ingerid then herald now spoke the messengers such words aster bad us bear thee as that she deemed she would set great store by thy now doing after the manner of a great man and she prayed that thou shouldest rather take after the kindred of herald hair fair in thy courage than after ronnie then neb thy mother's father or url nary the old though men of michael wisdom they were the king answers great tidings do ye tell and verily ye put them forth to me eagerly much has asked the earth's maid of such men as it was lesser duty so to do by them than now and well i see that she has still the same temper as a foretime and with michael eagerness she takes this matter in hand if she will so lead her son out as that it be done in as stately a fashion as now she leadeth him in but so me seemeth if this shall be so they that pledge themselves to this cause will be giving to he neither to their wealth nor their life this man king olaf is fighting against exceeding odds and upon him and his reeds lieth the wrath of the dane king and the swede king if he hold on the way wherein he now is chapter 32 the banquet now when the king had thus spoken he sat down and let draw off his foot gear and did on his feet a pair of quarter then hose where to he bound gilded spurs there upon he cast off cape and curdle and arrayed himself in costly raiment and over all a cloak of scarlet and gird himself with a sword adorned and set upon his head a foregilded helm and then mounts his horse he sent workmen about into the country side and chose for himself 30 men in goodly raiment who rode home with him but when they rode up into the garth before the house then saw he wear on the other side of the garth forth flew the banner of king olaf he himself following it and a hundred men with him all well dyke all about between the houses with all stood men in array straightway king seger greeted his stepson king olaf and his company from on horseback and bat him in for a drinking with him but asked to went up and kissed her son and bat him terry with her saying that all was welcome to him that she might give him both lands and folk king olaf thanked her well for her words she took him by the hand and let him after her into the guest chamber and up to the high seat king segerd got men to give heed to their garments and give corn to their horses but he went to his high seat and with all bravery was that banquet done chapter 33 parlay between king olaf and king segerd but when king olaf had been there no long while he befell one day that he called to him for talk and counsel king segerd his stepfather and asked to his mother and ronnie his fosterer then king olaf took up the word so it is as he as you know that i have come hither to this land after having been for a long while in the outlands all this while i and my men have had for our maintenance but such as we have sought us in war and in many places have we had to run the risk of body and soul therefore many a man as cyclist as he were hath had to forfeit his wealth at our hand yay some their life into the bargain well outland men sit on the wealth which first my father owned and his father and each after the other of our kinsmen and where unto i am lawfully born nor are they content with this but they have taken to them more over all that we kinsmen owned who are come down from king herald hair fair in a straight line to some they allow a little thereof to other some nothing at all now shall that be unlocked to you which for a long while has abided in my mind to it that i minded to claim my father's heritage and that i shall go see neither the dame king nor the sweet king nor pray for audited from them although they have now for a while called their own that which was the heritage left by herald hair fair nay sooth to say i'm rather minded to seek mine heritage at point and edge and for that and to crave the avail of all my kindred and friends and of all such as may be willing to turn them to me in this matter and in such wise am i minded to set afoot this claim that one of two things shall be either that i shall own and rule over all that dominion from which they felt king olav trigvescent my kinsmen or else that i shall fall here on my own kin heritage now i look for this from the stepfather sigurd and from such other folk in the land as art right born to kingdom here according to the laws which herald hair fair set up that ye will not be lacking so much that ye will not rise up to thrust away from you this shame of our kindred in such wise that ye will put forth all your might to strengthen him who is willing to take the lead in raising up our kindred but whether or no thou art willing to show manliness in this matter yet know i the mind of the common naughty that all folk would be feign to rid themselves of the throldom of outland lord so soon as they may have a man to trust him now for this reason have i broached this matter to none before thee that i know thou art a wise man and know as well how to look to it in what way this enterprise should be set afoot at the outset whether by privately talking it over to certain people or by setting it forth in open speech to all folk i've now somewhat reddened tooth on them in that i laid hands on url hay con who now has fled out of the land and given over to me with sworn oaths that part of the realm which heretofore was his now i am minded to think that i shall have an easier task on hand in dealing with url spine alone than it would have been if they had been both together in the warding of the land now king sigurd answered no little matter abideth in thy mind king oloth and me seameth as i accounted this matter is rather one of high metal than a foresight and foresooth it is to be looked for that long asunder is my little mindedness from the high heart which is in thee for then when as thou work but a little way from thy childhood thou west already filled with mastery and overbearing in all things whereas thou mightest moreover now thou art much tried in battle and has shaped thyself after the fashions of outland chieftains now i walk well that when thou hast once made up thy mind to this it will be of no avail to let thee moreover it is but meat that matters of this kind should weigh heavily in the mind of men who are somewhat of champions when as the whole kindred of herald hair fair and their kingdom falleth down but to no pledges will i bind me until i know the mind or the undertakings of other kings of the uplands however thou hast done well and that thou didst make known to me this purpose before thou spakest it out loud to the folk i will promise thee my furtherance with kings and other lords and the rest of the folk of the land with all and therewith king Olaf art thou welcome to my wealth for thy furtherance but on this one condition i will that we bear this before the commonality that i see first how far it is likely that there should be any furtherance thereof or any avail forthcoming for so great a matter for make thy mind up to this that thou hast taken much on thine hands if thou shalt deal in mass trees with Olaf the sweet king and with canute who is now king both in England and Denmark and with strong props must thine affairs be stayed if they are too prosper but not unlike do i deem it that thou wilt speed well with folk raising for the whole folk is vain of new things so fared it urged when king Olaf triglicin came into the land for thereof all folk were feign yet for no long while did he enjoy his kingdom when the reeds had gotten so far aster took up the word so is it with me son that i am feign of thee and of this feignest to wit of that much might and pith to that end will i spare not that i have to give but there is but little of profitable counsel to be looked for whereas i am but this would i rather if there were such a bargain to be made to it that thou should be over king of norway though thou livest no longer in the kingdom than did Olaf triglicin rather than thou should speed no greater a king than sigurd south and should die of old age after these words they broke up the meeting there tarried Olaf a while with all his company and king sigurd entertained them at table one day with fish and milk one day with flesh meat and ale turn and turn about chapter 34 concerning the kings of the uplands at this time there were many kings in the uplands who ruled over folk lands and were mostly come of the kin of herald hair fair over heath mark there ruled two brothers rarek and ring and in good brand's dale good rod in realm realm also was a king and one king there was who had thought and hatheland involved us there ruled a king likewise now king sigurd south had a meeting with these folk kings up in hatheland where it was also Olaf herald some then sigurd laid before the folk kings with whom he had bespoken the meeting the business of Olaf his stepson and prayed them for help both as to men council and alliance he told up how needful it was for them to put from their hands the oppression where under the danes and swedes had laid them and said that now would be forthcoming the man who would lead in this adventure there with all he told up many deeds of prowess which king Olaf had done in his journeys and warfare then spoke king warwick true it is that greatly has come down the might of king herald since not one of his kinsmen isn't over king in norway now the folk of this land have tried it diversely king hay con ethos stands foster son was king here and all folk liked it well but when the sons of goon hill ruled over the land all men wearied of their tyranny and wrongdoing so that men would leave or have outlandish kings to rule over them and be freer to do as they would seeing that the outlandish lords were ever far away and meddled but little with the ways of men so that they had of the land subscat as they have settled for themselves but when herald the dame king and earl hay con fell out the jams vikings harried in norway and the whole throng in multitude of the people but took them to withstanding the vikings and thrust from off them that unpeace so folk egged earl hay con on to hold the land in the dame kings despite and to ward it with point and edge but when he deemed that he was fully come into dominion through the furtherance of the people of the land he became so hard and so overbearing to the land folk that men fold him not and the frantheimers themselves slew him and had into dominion olav trigleson who was law born to the kingdom and in every way had the makings of a ruler in him the whole throng of the land thrust in to have him for a king to rule them and to rear up anew the realm which herald hair fair had made his own but when king olav deemed himself fully established in his dominion no man was free before him to do his own will and in overbearing fashion he went at us small kings claiming for himself all the dues which king herald had gathered in here yay and in some things going still further than he did but so far from them being free to do as they would no one might so much as have his way as to what god should be trod but since he was taken from the land we have till now held to the friendship of the dame king and in him have we had great avail in all things which we needed to crave for ourselves self-freedom therewithal and easy life in the land and no overbearing now is this to be said as to my mind that I am well content with things as they are I want not though a kinsman of mine rule in the land whether my right shall be bettered in ought thereby and but I know it I shall have no share in this adventure then spake ring his brother I shall uncover my mind me thinks it is better even though I have but the same lands and dominion that a kinsman of mine should be king in Norway than outlandish lords for then might our kindred be uplifted again here in the land now my mind forbodes me as concerning this man Olaf that his fate and fetch will rule it whether he shall get the kingdom or not but if he become over king of all Norway then me thinks he will be deemed to be in better case who can tell up more matters for his friendship as now he is in no way better often any one of us they so far worse that we have some land and dominion we're over to rule but he has none at all and we know less than he are rightly born to the kingdom now shall we make us men of such avail to him as to win him the highest dignity here in the land and back him up with all our might why then should he not reward it us well and remember it long for good if he be of such great manhood as I think and as all men say now shall we risk the venture to bind friendship with him if I may have my will thereupon stood up one after the other and spoke and the upshot was that most were rather more willing to bind fellowship with King Olaf he promised them his full friendship and right booting if he should be so king over Norway so this covenant they bind with sworn oaths chapter 35 the king's name given to Olaf thereupon the kings called together a thing and then Olaf set forth to the folk this council and the title he has to the kingdom there he craved of the bonders that they take him for king over the land and promised it in return the ancient laws to them and therewithal to ward the land against outland war hosts and lords to this end he spoke long and deathly and got good word for his speech then stood up the kings one after the other and all further this cause and errand before the folk and at last it came to this that Olaf was given the king's name over all the land and the land was doomed to him according to upland law chapter 36 king Olaf's journey about the uplands then king Olaf set out on his journey and let banquets be arrayed for him wherever there were kingly manners and first he fared about half the land and then sought north into gut brand's dales then matters went as king Sigurd had guessed in that folk drew to him so Mikkel that he deemed he was not in need of the half thereof and had by then well night three hundred men by reason of this the banquets as settled beforehand served him not for it had heretofore been the want that kings fared about the uplands with a following of 60 or 70 men but never more than a hundred so the king fared swiftly over the land staying but one night in each place but when he came north through the mountains then doubt he his ways and came north over the mountain and fared on till he came down north from the mountains king Olaf came down to updale and tarried there for a night then he fared through updale wood and came down in middledale where he craved for a thing and summoned to him the bonders then spoke the king at the thing and craved that the bonders should take him for king offering them in return right in law even as Olaf Trigvison had done the bonders had no might to hold strife against the king and so it ended that the bonders took him for king and bound themselves there too with sworn oaths but they had before sent news down to Orkdale and also to scorn and let tell of the goings of king Olaf all that they wanted chapter 37 and hosting in Thrandheim Einar Thambark Skelfer had a manner at house speed and scorn but when came to him the news of the fairings of king Olaf he straightway let share the war arrow sent it to all four quarters and summoned Thane and Thrall with all weapons and this went with the bidding that they were to ward the land against king Olaf the arrow bidding went to Orkdale and even to Galdale and from all there about and host was drawn together chapter 38 king Olaf's fearing to Thrandheim king Olaf fared with his host down to Orkdale and fared all quietly and with peace but when he came down to Griotar he met there the gathering of the bonders and they had more than 700 men so king Olaf arrayed his company for he deemed the bonders would be minded to fight and when the bonders saw this they fell to arraign them but that went all the less smoothly whereas beforehand nothing had been settled as to who should be captain over them now when king Olaf saw how unhandily matters went with the bonders he sent to them Thor Rear son of good brand and when he came he said that king Olaf had no mind to fight them and named 12 men who were the noblest of their flock and bad them come to meet king Olaf the bonders took that and went forth over a certain edge hill which was there whereas stood the battle of the king then spake king Olaf he bonders have now done well in that I have now the choice of speaking with you for that will I tell you concerning my Aaron hither to Thrandheim and this in the beginning that I what you have heard or is that I and Earl Hayekon met last summer and so ended our dealings that he gave to me all the dominion which he had here in Thrandheim which is as you want the Orkdale folk the Gaul Dale folk the Strenfolk and the Isle folk with all and I've here the witnesses who were there and saw the hansel between me and the Earl and heard the words and oaths and all the covenant which the Earl made with me now I will bid you law and peace even according to that which king Olaf trig viscent bad you before me he spoke long and bravely and it came to this at last that he bad the bonders two choices one to come under his hand and to yield him obedience and the other to have a battle with him then and there there upon the twelve bonders went back to their band and told them how they had sped and sought read from all the company as to which to take now although they wrangled over this between themselves for a while yet they chose in the end to come under the king's hand and this was bound with oaths on the bonders behalf then the king arrayed his journey and the bonders made banquets of welcome for him thereafter the king journeyed down to the sea and betook himself a shipboard he had a 20 benched launch ship from Gunnar of Gelman another 20 bench keel had he from loading the big a third 20 bench craft he had from and roar on the nest which homestead earl hay count had owned and the steward thereover was he who was named barred the white the king had besides some four or five cutters and speedily he fared and held in up the fur chapter 39 the journey of earl spine earl spine was then up thrantime at steinker and that arrayed there a yule feast there was a cheaping sted einer than bar scale fur heard that the men of ordeal had come under the hand of king ola and so sent earl spine men with the news who first went down to nadoes and took their a rowing cutter which einer owned there upon they sped up the fur thing came late on a day up to steinker and bought these tidings to the earl all about the journey of king ola the earl had a long ship which floated tilted before his homestead so forthwith the same evening he let fit aboard his loose money and the raiment of his men and drinking vittles as much as the ship would hold and they rode down furth straightway that same night and came at dawn of day to scorn sound thence they saw where king ola came up the furth with his host and so the earl turned towards land inward of maswick a thick wood was there and they lay so close to the cliffs that leaves and limbs reached out over the ship then they cut large trees and set them outboard right down to the seat and the ship might not be seen because of the leafy nor was it full daylight when the king rode out past them the weather was calm and the king rode up past the island and when they were hidden out of each other's sight the earl rode out into the furth and all the way down to frosta where they made land for there was the earl's dominion chapter 40 the council of earl spine and inar earl spine set men out into gall dale for inar his brother-in-law and when inar came to the earl the earl told him how all things had gone between him and king ola and this therewith that he was minded to gather and host together and go to meet king olof and fight with him inar answers thus take we our council heedfully and let us keep spying thereafter as to what king olof may be minded for that this alone be heard of us that we are keeping quiet for then if he heareth not of our hosting maybe that he will sit down and quiet at stein ker over you whereas now there are all things well arrayed but if he hear that we have on hand and hosting he will make out of the furth forthwith and we shall have nothing of him so was it done as inar spoke in the earl winter feasting among the bonders of steordale now king olof when he came to stein ker took all the goods for the banquet and had them born aboard his ships and got also ships of burden therefore and took with him all vitals and drink and got him gone at his speediest and held out to the doys where king olof trigleson had let set a cheaping stead and reared a king's house but before that there was only one house in nidness as is writ of four but when king eric became ruler of the land he favored la dear where his father had had his chief abode but he left unheeded the houses which king olof had let build on the nid and some were now tumbled down while others some though standing were scarce meat for dwelling in king olof steered his ships up into the nid and forthwith he let dite for dwelling the houses yet standing and rear those up again which were fallen down and had there at a throng of men and he let fit into the houses both the drink and the vitals being minded to sit there you'll tide over but when url swine and einar heard this they laid their plan on their side chapter 41 of sigvat the scald thord sigvaldi scald was the name of a man of iceland he had been for a long time with url sigvaldi and later with thork held the high the brother of the url but after the fall of the url thord termed chapman he happened on king olof when he was on his western biking fair and became his man and fathered him ever after and when these tidings befell he was with the king sigvat was the son of thord and was fostered with thork held of ape water but when he was well not a full grown man he fared out from the land with certain chapman and the ship came to thrandheim in the harvest tide and the shipmates took quarters in the country side this same winter came king olof to thrandheim as have been written in now but when sigvat heard that his father was there with the king he went to the king and met thord his father and abode there a while sigvat was early uh good scald he had made a song on king olof and bade the king give ear to it but the king said he would have no songs made on him and says he knows not how to listen to songcraft then sigvat answers all noble skater of merc blue steed of the tilt now hear me for well can i in songcraft and sure one scald thou mayest have though holy thou mayest thrust off the praising of all other for thee all wielder surely shall i get good might of singing king olof gave to sigvat for song reward a golden ring which wade half a mark sigvat became one of king olof's bodyguard then he sang oh battle new yord feign took i thy sword to me that would i nor blame the deed thereafter yate was a thing praiseworthy oh stem of the lair of the brother of the serpent well we bargained a true house carl thou gettest and i a right good master url spine had let take half sailing fees for the iceland ship as had been the want of four time for url eric and url haycon had one half of that revenue just as of all others in thrandheim but when king olof was come there he appointed his men to gather in half sailing fees from iceland ships but those of this ship went to see the king and prayed sigvat for his help so he went before the king and sang prayer wearing shall they call me the gladdeners of fight vulture if now for the cloaks i pray the first seas fire have we taken waster of lair of mead worm half sailing dues yet grant thou to go back to the round ship design myself have craved it chapter 42 of url spine url spine e and inar thambar skelfer drew together a great host and went out to gall dale by the upland ways and make out for the doys having well-nigh twenty hundred men king olof's men were out on gall ridge keeping guard on horseback and got to spy how the host went down gall dale and brought the king the news by midnight so forthwith king olof stood up and let wake the host and straightway they went aboard ship and bore out all their raiment and weapons and everything they might get away with and thereupon rode out of the river even at that nick of time came the host of the url into the town and they took all the yule vitals and burnt all the houses so king olof fared down the furth to orc dale and there went off from the ships and so fared up through orc dale right up to the mountains and eased over them to the dales it is told of this to it that url spine burnt the homestead of the doys in that lay which was made on clang the son of brucey all wielders half-made houses by the very nidside burnt they deemied that fire the hall fell on the host the flame shot ashes chapter 43 of king olof then king olof fared southward along the good brand's dales and from thence down to heathmark through the heart of winter he went all about a guesting but when spring set in he drew in host together and went down to the wick from heathmark he had a large company which the kings got for him thence fared many landed men and rich bonders and in that band was kettle calf from ringness from realm to king olof had some folk king segerd south his stepfather came and joined him with a large following so they made down for the sea and betook themselves aboard ship and made ready from the inner wick and a fair host and a michel had they but when they had died all their host they made out for tonsburg chapter 44 of url spine's host forthwith after you url spine gathered and host together all about thrantine and bideth the muster and didis his ships in those times there was in norway a multitude of landed men and many of them were mighty men and of so great kindred that they were sprung from the blood of kings or of urls by but a short tale of forefathers and mighty wealthy they were with all but all the trust of the kings or the urls that ruled over the land was in the landed men for so it was that in every folk land the landed men ruled over the throng of the bonders now url spine was friendly with the landed men and therefore he sped well in the muster of his host einar them bar skelfer the brother-in-law of url spine was with him and many other landed men many two who in the winter before had sworn oaths of fealty to king olof both landed men and bonders now forthwith when they were ready they set off out of the furth and held south along the land and drew together men out of every folk land but when they came south past roguelan then came to meet them earling ski augson and had a great host and with him were many landed men on they held with all the host east of wick and it was at the time when lent was wearing that url spine sought in to the wick he brought his host past grandma and came to anchor off nassiar chapter 45 of king olof's host then king olof held with his host down the wick and but short way there was now between them and each new of the other on the saturday before palm sunday king olof was aboard the ship which was called carl's head on the stem whereof was carvin the head of a king and that he himself had carved that head was long sythens and norway used on ships which chieftain steered end of the story of olof the holy part three chapter 31 through 45