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Thorolf and his company had a large long-ship well equipt, and went on their way as had been agreed. And when he came in to his place, then he saw the shield, and asked whose was that costly work. The ship with all its freight Thorolf took, but Thorir he put out on an island. They followed Bjorn so long as he went out roving; but when he settled down in quiet, then these brothers went to Thorolf, and were with him in his harrying; they were forecastle men in his ship. They brought thither a swift twenty-benched long-ship well manned, which they had before used in sea-roving. ', 'Ljot asketh but little, Then Skallagrim took land between fells and firths, all the moors out to Seal-loch, and the upper land to Borgarhraun, and southwards to Hafnar-fell, and all that land from the watershed to the sea. Sound sleepeth many a warrior His one last wish was to travel to the Althing and toss silver he received from King thelstan for the people to fight over. Ev'n as forest-saplings Grim gnawer of shield-rim, War-falcon's feeder meetly Then he had roofed in a far larger booth than the other that were there. I better may meet him, Around his brow [13], The saga then proceeds to describe the lives of Thorolf and Egill Skallagrimsson, born in Iceland, and eventually making their way to Norway in adulthood. But the long-ship that he had brought from Denmark in the autumn he gave to Thorstein at parting. Thou hast nothing else to expect but that here thou must die. Wherefore many now were disloyal who had before been faithful subjects. Egil asked Einar much of tidings from the east, and about his friends, and withal about those that he deemed his enemies. There they parted, and Steinar went home. Then he went home to Borg, but the women who came to the milking-shed found Grani where he lay. After that Eric's sons took the kingdom in Norway. Might none behold, Then they parted: the house-carle went home and told him the thrall's answer. They sat in the sledge, and drove for the rest of the day. Then Egil sang: 'Runes none should grave ever And when he came home, Asgerdr put the robe in the chest where it was before. Bjorn heard these tidings, and withal that he was outlawed in Norway. Again, once when Egil went to the fire to warm himself, a man asked him whether his feet were cold, and warned him not to put them too near the fire. This ship belonged to a man named Kettle, and by-named Blund; he was a Norwegian of noble kin and wealthy. Onund was furious in language for a time; but when Egil saw that Onund would do no right in this matter, then he summoned him to court, and referred the matter to the law of the Gula-thing. To these words the king found no ready answer. They need a boat to take them from the island. But in the entrance-room it was now seen that Bard and Aulvir were fallen. And they lay in wait fifteen in either place. Book: Fell, Christine . Grim raven's beak They went back that day to their own company, and met Thorolf. Beguiled by his bride. Bowed and prostrate laid. They went with them all that day as a guard against Armod and his house-carles. Thorir had become a baron of the king's at the time when the events just told happened, but the friendship between him and Skallagrim continued. They rowed to the buildings, and found there men to speak to. He was called Geir the wealthy; his sons were Blund-Kettle and Thorgeir-blund. After Alfred, Edward his son was king in England. That strong strand of Harold's Soon after this he died. He took up a peaceful livelihood as a farmer and blacksmith, and raised his sons, Thorolf (named rlfr after his slain brother), and Egill (the titular hero). 'But I in no wise After that Karl of Berdla came to earl Rognvald with a long-ship fully manned, and they two went north to Mra. Thou wilt not let it be so, father, with him who has been the first to give me such a treasure. . In the forecastle of the king's ship were Thorolf Kveldulfsson, Bard the White, Kari of Berdla's sons, Aulvir Hnuf and Eyvind Lambi, and in the prow were twelve Berserks of the king. And now Egil had the funeral feast of his son held after ancient custom. He was a house-carle of Aulvald's. Then he went near with the axe - the king's gift - and hewed at the oxen both at once, so that he took off the heads of the two. In the winter he often went to the herring fishing, and with him many house-carles. celebrities who were raised amish ZumLife Salkl Yaam Merkezi . Actually Bard also served another beverage that was not ale, called. Egil accepted the offer, had his ship set up and the cargo safely bestowed. They often reminded the king of this, and withal how Thorolf had plundered the king and his subjects, and had gone about harrying within the land. Thy folk due silence keep. Skallagrim took the axe and held it up, looked at it awhile, but said nothing. But Egil turned him and cried aloud: 'This do I protest before thee, Arinbjorn, and thee, Thord, and all men that now can hear my word, barons and lawmen and all people, that I ban all those lands that belonged to Bjorn Brynjolfsson, from building and tillage, and from all gain therefrom to be gotten. He had shield and sword. He had gone westwards to England with Arinbjorn. Thereafter went Eric Bloodaxe and Thorir home to the Firths; then they sent word to Thorolf how their errand to the king had sped. On seeing Steinar's pursuit, these rode outside Long-holt. Earneth well his honours: But Odin saw alone Kettle meant to make his home in Iceland; he came late in the summer. Of my father's kin. I came on my wave-horse, There was a man named Ulf, son of Bjalf, and Hallbera, daughter of Ulf the fearless; she was sister of Hallbjorn Half-giant in Hrafnista, and he the father of Kettle Hing. There was a man named Grim, son of Thorir Kettlesson Keel-fare, of noble kin and wealthy. They came on to Raumsdale, there got them conveyance, and then went south to Mri. Then Skallagrim set free the men whose lives he had spared, and bade them go to king Harold and tell him the whole tale of what had been done there, and who had been the doers of it. Peace affrighted fled; Hkon denied Egill's claim, so Arinbjrn compensated Egill with forty marks of silver. It befell in autumn, when ships had come to Iceland from Norway, that this report came over, how Bjorn had run away with Thora without the consent of her kin, and for that the king had made him an outlaw from Norway. They were set there as defenders of the land against the inroads of Scots, Danes, and Norsemen, who harried the land much, and though they had a strong claim on the land there, because in Northumberland nearly all the inhabitants were Danish by the father's or mother's side, and many by both. This plan they fixed upon, and so ended the council. He means to be made king over the north there, both over Finmark and Halogaland: and the wonder is that thou wilt listen to him in anything whatever. The two handsome Thorolfs (rlfrs) die heroic deaths, while their brothers Skallagrim and Egill both die in old age after spitefully burying their wealth in the wilderness. Laurence de Looze, Jn Karl Helgason, Russell Poole and Torfi H. Tulinius (eds.). Egil became quite blind. Then he went where his comrades were keeping the pass before eight men: there were some wounded on either side. Therein was laid Skallagrim, with his horse, his weapons, and his smithy tools. He was then in Throndheim; the messengers were to go to Vik and seek Thorstein Thora's son with these words, that he should go eastwards to Vermaland and gather in the tribute for the king, or else he must leave the land. Of the sea's breezy brother ', Then said Arinbjorn: 'If thou, O king, and thou Gunnhilda, if ye two have resolved that Egil shall here get no terms, then is this the manly course, to give him respite and leave to go for a week, that he may look out for himself; of his own free will any way he came hither to seek you, and therefore hoped for peace. Dear to the king was he above all his barons; the king had set him as ruler over all the Firth-folk. And in that voyage he took Gunnhilda, daughter of Auzur Toti, and brought her home with him. Bjorn then sailed into Sogn, and thence on home to his father, and Thorolf with him. All through the summer Kveldulf and Skallagrim kept a look-out shorewards on the highway of vessels. Egil traveled on till he came westward out of the wood. It was the goodman's treasury; there were many costly things, and much silver. Oaths that are meet and true.'. Egil's Saga - Icelandic Saga Database The king granted them this. Egil said, 'How many will they be, think you, if it is as you say? Then he sailed northwards along the coast with both the ships; but when they came to the mouth of the Elbe, they lay there and waited for night. Heavy, loud and long. His brother Edmund now ruled England. King Harold proclaimed a general levy, and gathered a fleet, summoning his forces far and wide through the land. Men deem this lord, You will get from him terms of great honour, for the king is very keen on this, to have with him such as he hears are men of mark for strength and bravery. This ship they had taken in their summer freebooting. He falls not whom true friends Then out leapt men behind them, and drove at them with weapons. An men silence hold: Olaf the Red was the name of the king in Scotland. These were the laws of wager of battle in those times, that when one man challenged another on any claim, and the challenger gained the victory, then he should have as prize of victory that which he had claimed in his challenge. Virtues full many To stand unbroken There was nothing for it but to make for land, and this they did. For I think that he has a whole load of good-fortune where our king has not a handful.'. King Olaf's men pitched north of the hazel-poles, toward which side the ground sloped a little. That same autumn old Bjorgolf journeyed from home in a cutter of his own, with thirty men aboard. Chief among them was Thord, Grani's son. ', Egil answered: 'This offer I deem most desirable to take. Northwards from Lidandisness they held a course further out, but pillaged wherever they touched land. Egil set down the mead-cask, then ran off, and sped him to the house. Egil and his men turned and stood abreast across the path. In the evening Egil sat next to Fridgeir, and his comrades outside him. They made great preparations for their journey, choosing them men and the best ship they could get; it was the very ship they had taken from Thorgils Yeller. It is said that when they laid Bodvar in earth Egil was thus dressed: his hose were tight-fitting to his legs, he wore a red kirtle of fustian, closely-fitting, and laced at the sides: but they say that his muscles so swelled with his exertion that the kirtle was rent off him, as were also the hose. Sport I deem the spear-din, For which he was rewarded with two gold rings, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn. Thorstein Egil's son when he grew up was a most handsome man, white-haired, bright-faced. Then Egil's company went on their way, and nothing more happened till they got out of the wood and found lodging near the wood with a landowner named Alf, who was called Alf the wealthy. ', Whereupon Egil rowed back to the ship, and bade the men rise and take their weapons. He had accrued land and property from viking raids, and was a man of wisdom. 'Then must I myself go to him,' said Thorolf. Bjorn accepted this. On funeral bier. Five escaped, all sore wounded, but three fell there. At Moss-fell were the summer-sheds of the milch kine, and during the Thing-time Thordis was at the sheds. Feet twain have I, But when day dawned, Thorolf's sentries saw the army approaching. This force shall be opposed to that part of the enemy which is loose and not in set array, for the Scots are ever loose in array; they run to and fro, and dash forward here and there. With shroud of piled stones.'. And though the house there was pulled down, the place continued to be called Hrafn-toft. Ready on tongue Then this counsel was adopted, to meet thee with friendly show and bid thee to a banquet: but it was intended, when thou wert well drunk and lying asleep, to attack thee with fire and weapon. When he came to the king, he and his were placed in the guest-hall and entertained magnificently. The other led round the edge of the ridge, over wide bogs, across which hewn wood was laid, there too making a causeway for but one to pass. The king had about three hundred men with him when he came to the banquet, but Thorolf had five hundred present. Some men they found to speak with outside in the yard, and asked what was going on. Now will I not take that counsel; serve thee I will not, for I know I should get no luck by yielding thee such service as I should wish and as would be worthy. Soon Egil and his men stood up, and took their weapons from the wall where they had hung them up; they then went to the granary in which their horse were, and laid themselves down in the straw, and slept through the night. Ulf (Kveldulf) had Hallbjorn Halftroll as his maternal uncle, and was known for his surpassing size and strength. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail-coat and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. This encounter was seen by those who were on the meadows from other farms, and they ran to part them. Thorgeir dwelt on Swan-ness at Lambstead. ', The king thought this good counsel. The overlooker thereof was a man named Bard. Yngvar accepted this offer. The king bade his men go with all speed and seize every ship or boat on the island. Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson | eBook | Barnes & Noble Please try again later. While visiting, word arrived from Norway that Thorstein's father died leaving him a large inheritance. The summer after Egill's father killed his friend, Thorolf came home to visit Iceland. His unbridled behavior and strength beyond his age earned him a stay at home when a feast was held by Yngvar (Egill's maternal grandfather). 'Now will I,' said he, 'go seek Eric's sons with such force as will follow me. And far between, But when all were armed, then went they to the king's house. Egils saga offers a brilliant study of a complex personalitya ruthless Viking who is also a sensitive poet, a rebel against authority from early childhood who ends his life as a defenseless, blind old man. It was all wave-marked on the surface like a shell. Arinbjorn craved entrance into the hall; it was granted. Blood of son of Bloodaxe, But if thou thinkest that thou hast prophetic foresight of this, that we shall get misfortune from this king, and that he will be our enemy, then why didst thou not go to battle against him with that king in whose service thou wert before? Thor's heavy wrestler, age, But when Egil was ready, and a fair wind blew, he sailed out to sea, and his voyage sped well. They set forth their errand, said that the king would have Kveldulf come to him. Thorfid bore the standard close after him, behind the standard followed the rest. With that they parted. [13], Egill joined the army of King thelstan, and he composed a drpa in praise of the king. Two or three men whom they deemed of least note they seized, and gave them their lives, asking of them who had been in the ship, and what had been the purport of the voyage. Egill defiantly rode a horse to attend, and composed his first skaldic verse at age three. For this ship they made; but those on board, deeming they had no means of defence, yielded, and were disarmed and put on shore, and Thorolf's men, taking the ship and its cargo, went on their way. He appears to be a shallow creature and in many instances the only time he appears to put much thought into anything is when he composes and recites poetry. He was called Kveldulf. Bjorgolf and his son Brynjolf had long held the office of going to the Finns, and collecting the Finns' tribute. 1893 . And the end of this matter was that Thorir took atonement for Bjorn, because he saw that it had come to this now that Bjorn had nothing to fear. Then he went out to his companions. Arinbjorn went home to king Eric at York; but Egil's comrades and shipmates had good peace there, and disposed of their cargo under Arinbjorn's protection. Njal's Saga is the longest and the most revered of the forty family sagas written in Iceland between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. But as they spied out the land southwards along the sea, they found before them a large firth; and, turning inwards along this firth, they stayed not their going till they found their companions, Grim the Halogalander and the rest. Croak hoarse the joying raven, Kveldulf said he was too old to travel: 'I shall sit at home,' said he. There they plundered and slew men, but the people fled, till at last there was no resistance. My mother doth send me, Then sang Egil: 'In struggle sternly hard . But on the appointed day Thorstein made him ready to go: it wanted then four weeks of winter. That river is now called Thjors-river; its stream was then much narrower and deeper that it is now. Yet England's mighty monarch His house-carles he had on his own ship, which was excellently equipt; he had also with him many landowners' sons. 1997 . Thorgils at once set forth the furs and showed them to the king. 'I would like you,' said he, 'to find out what lies under this request.' So at the appointed time he and his train came thither. Courts I of monarchs Blaze of fire. Hew down many foemen.'. And 'tis told me of the king that he is most generous in money gifts to his men, and not slow to give them promotion and to grant rule to such as he deems meet for it. [m][24], Egill married his brother Thorolf's widow, Asgerd. For you, Egil, methinks, the best counsel is that, as soon as we part, you return to Norway, and then on with all speed to Iceland.'. On me hath bestowed Then Egil spoke: 'What is it now, daughter? The king's division stood on the plain towards the river; Thorolf's division moved on the higher ground beside the wood. Yea, threefold praises With hood of daring Then Thorolf went to his ship, and had it drawn up and made snug, whereafter he and Egil went to lord Thorir. But when I come back next time I shall settle here. Flowing hath come; Egil in a company of ten or twelve went to Thorstein's, and remained there for the winter an honoured guest.

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