1. OLAF TRYGVASON'S BIRTH. 2. OF GUNHILD S SONS. 3. ASTRID'S JOURNEY. 4. HAKON'S EMBASSY TO SWEDEN. 5. OF SIGURD EIRIKSON. 6. OLAF IS SET FREE IN EISTLAND. 7. KLERKON KILLED BY OLAF. 8. OF HAKON EARL OF HLADER. 9. OF GOLD HARALD. 10. COUNCILS HELD BY HAKON AND HARALD. 11. HARALD GORMSON'S MESSAGE TO NORWAY. 12. TREACHERY OF HARALD AND HAKON. 13. DEATH OF HARALD GRAFELD. 14. GOLD HARALD'S DEATH. 15. DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY. 16. GUNHILD'S SONS LEAVE THE COUNTRY. 18. BATTLE BETWEEN HAKON AND RAGNFRED. 19. EARL HAKON'S MARRIAGE. 20. DEATH OF SKOPTE. 21. OLAF TRYGVASON'S JOURNEY FROM RUSSIA. 22. OLAF TRYGVASON'S MARRIAGE. 23. EARL HAKON PAYS NO SCAT. 24. HARALD OPPOSES CHRISTIANITY. 25. OLAF TRYGVASON'S WAR EXPEDITION. 26. OTTA AND HAKON IN BATTLE. 27. HARALD AND HAKON ARE BAPTIZED. 28. HAKON RENOUNCES CHRISTIANITY. 29. THE EMPEROR OTTA RETURNS HOME. 30. OLAF'S JOURNEY FROM VINDLAND. 31. KING OLAF'S FORAYS. 32. KING OLAF IS BAPTIZED. 33. OLAF MARRIES GYDA. 34. KING OLAF AND ALFVINE'S DUEL. 35. KING OLAF GETS HIS DOG VIGE. 36. HARALD GORMSON SAILS AGAINST ICELAND. 37. HARALD SENDS A WARLOCK TO ICELAND. 38. HARALD GORMSON'S DEATH. 39. VOW OF THE JOMSBORG VIKINGS. 40. EIRIK AND HAKON MAKE A WAR LEVY. 41. EXPEDITION OF THE JOMSBORG VIKINGS. 42. OF THE JOMSBORG VIKINGS. 43. BATTLE WITH THE JOMSBORG VIKINGS. 44. EARL SIGVALDE'S FLIGHT. 45. BUE THROWS HIMSELF OVERBOARD. 46. VIKINGS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE CHAIN. 47. DEATH OF GISSUR OF VALDERS. 48. KING HARALD GRENSKE'S DEATH. 49. BIRTH OF OLAF, SON OF HARALD GRENSKE. 50. ABOUT EARL HAKON. 51. THORER KLAKKA'S JOURNEY. 52. OLAF TRYGVASON COMES TO NORWAY. 53. EARL HAKON'S FLIGHT. 54. ERLEND'S DEATH. 55. EARL HAKON'S DEATH. 56. EARL HAKON'S HEAD. 57. OLAF TRYGVASON ELECTED KING. 58. LODIN'S MARRIAGE 59. OLAF BAPTIZES THE COUNTRY OF VIKEN. 60. OF THE HORDALAND PEOPLE. 61. ROGALAND BAPTIZED. 62. ERLING SKJALGSON'S WOOING. 64. ERLING SKJALGSON'S WEDDING. 65. RAUMSDAL AND FJORD-DISTRICTS BAPTIZED. 66. OLAF PROPOSES MARRIAGE TO QUEEN SIGRID. 67. OLAF HARALDSON BAPTIZED. 68. MEETING OF OLAF AND SIGRID. 69. THE BURNING OF WARLOCKS. 70. EYVIND KELDA'S DEATH. 71. OLAF AND ODIN'S APPARITION. 72. THE THING IN THRONDHJEM. 73. JARNSKEGGE OR IRON BEARD. 74. THE FEAST AT HLADER. 75. OF THE THING IN THRONDHJEM. 76. THE THRONDHJEM PEOPLE BAPTIZED. 77. A TOWN IN THE THRONDHJEM COUNTRY. 78. KING OLAF'S MARRIAGE. 79. BUILDING OF THE SHIP CRANE. 80. THANGBRAND THE PRIEST GOES TO ICELAND. 81. OF SIGURD AND HAUK. 82. OF HAREK OF THJOTTA. 83. EYVIND KINRIFA'S DEATH. 84. HALOGALAND MADE CHRISTIAN. 85. THORER HJORT'S DEATH. 86. KING OLAF'S VOYAGE TO GODEY. 87. OF RAUD'S BEING TORTURED. 88. OF THE ICELANDERS. 89. BAPTISM OF THE ICELANDERS. 90. HALFRED VANDREDASKALD BAPTIZED. 91. THANGBRAND RETURNS FROM ICELAND. 92. OF KING OLAF'S FEATS. 93. BAPTISM OF LEIF EIRIKSON. 94. FALL OF KING GUDROD. 95. BUILDING OF THE SHIP LONG SERPENT. 96. EARL EIRIK, THE SON OF HAKON. 97. EIRIK'S FORAY ON THE BALTIC COASTS. 98. KING SVEIN'S MARRIAGE. 99. KING BURIZLEIF'S MARRIAGE. 100. OLAF GETS THYRE IN MARRIAGE. 101. OLAF'S LEVY FOR WAR. 102. CREW ON BOARD OF THE LONG SERPENT. 103. ICELAND BAPTIZED. 104. GREENLAND BAPTIZED 105. RAGNVALD SENDS MESSENGERS TO OLAF. 106. OLAF SENDS EXPEDITION TO VINDLAND. 107. OLAF'S EXPEDITION VINDLAND. 108. CONSPIRACY AGAINST KING OLAF. 109. EARL SIGVALDE'S TREACHEROUS PLANS. 110. KING OLAF'S VOYAGE FROM VINDLAND. 111. CONSULTATION OF THE KINGS. 112. OF KING OLAF'S PEOPLE. 113. OLAF'S SHIPS PREPARED FOR BATTLE. 114. OF KING OLAF. 115. THE BATTLE BEGINS. 116. FLIGHT OF SVEIN AND OLAF THE SWEDE. 117. OF EARL EIRIK. 118. OF EINAR TAMBARSKELVER. 119. OLAF GIVES HIS MEN SHARP SWORDS. 120. THE SERPENT BOARDED. 121. THE SERPENT'S DECKS CLEARED. 122. REPORT AMONG THE PEOPLE. 123. OF EARL EIRIK, THE SON OF HAKON. SAGA OF OLAF HARALDSON. 1. OF SAINT OLAF'S BRINGING UP. 2. OF OLAF AND KING SIGURD SYR. 3. OF RING OLAF'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 4. KING OLAF'S WAR EXPEDITION. 5. OLAF'S FIRST BATTLE. 6. FORAY IN SVITHJOD. 7. THE SECOND BATTLE. 8. THE THIRD BATTLE. 9. THE FOURTH BATTLE IN SUDERVIK. 10. THE FIFTH BATTLE IN FRIESLAND. 11. DEATH OF KING SVEIN FORKED BEARD. 12. THE SIXTH BATTLE. 13. THE SEVENTH BATTLE. 14. EIGHTH AND NINTH BATTLES OF OLAF. 15. THE TENTH BATTLE. 16. ELEVENTH, TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH BATTLES. 17. FOURTEENTH BATTLE AND OLAF'S DREAM. 18. FIFTEENTH BATTLE. 19. OF THE EARLS OF ROUEN. 20. OF EINAR TAMBASKELFER. 21. OF ERLING SKIALGSON. 22. OF THE HERSE ERLING SKIALGSON. 23. OF EARL EIRIK. 24. THE MURDER OF EDMUND. 25. OLAF AND ETHELRED'S SONS. 26. BATTLE OF KING OLAF. 27. OLAF'S EXPEDITION TO NORWAY. 28. HAKON TAKEN PRISONER BY OLAF. 29. HAKON'S DEPARTURE FROM NORWAY. 30. ASTA RECEIVES HER SON OLAF. 31. KING SIGURD'S DRESS. 32. OF THE FEAST. 33. CONVERSATION OF OLAF AND SIGURD. 34. KINGS IN THE UPLAND DISTRICTS. 35. OLAF GETS THE TITLE OF KING FROM THE THING. 36. KING OLAF TRAVELS IN THE UPLANDS. 37. LEVY AGAINST OLAF IN THRONDHJEM. 38. OLAF'S PROGRESS IN THRONDHJEM. 39. OF EARL SVEIN'S PROCEEDINGS. 40. EARL SVEIN'S AND EINAR'S CONSULTATIONS. 41. OF SIGVAT THE SKALD. 42. OF EARL SVEIN. 43. OF KING OLAF. 44. OF EARL SVEIN'S FORCES. 45. KING OLAF S FORCES. 46. KING OLAF'S SPEECH. 47. OF THE BATTLE AT NESJAR. 48. EARL SVEIN'S FLIGHT. 49. EARL SVEIN LEAVES THE COUNTRY. 50. OLAF'S AND SIGURD'S CONSULTATION. 51. OF KING OLAF. 52. PLAN OF SVEIN AND THE SWEDISH KING. 53. EARL SVEIN'S DEATH. 54. OF THE THRONDHJEM PEOPLE. 55. OF KING OLAF'S HOUSEHOLD. 56. OF KING OLAF'S HABITS. 57. KING OLAF'S MESSENGERS. 58. OLAF AND ERLING RECONCILED. 59. EILIF OF GAUTLAND'S MURDER. 60. THE HISTORY OF EYVIND URARHORN. 61. THRAND WHITE'S MURDER. 62. CHRISTIANITY PROCLAIMED IN VIKEN. 63. HROE'S FALL. 64. FALL OF GUDLEIK AND THORGAUT. 65. MEETING OF OLAF AND RAGNVALD. 66. KING OLAF THE SWEDE. 67. ACCOUNT OF THEIR RECONCILIATION. 68. JOURNEY OF BJORN THE MARSHAL. 69. CONVERSATION OF BJORN AND INGEBJORG. 70. OF SIGVAT THE SKALD. 71. HJALTE SKEGGJASON WHILE HE WAS IN SVITHIOD. 72. OLAF'S JOURNEY TO THE UPLANDS. 73. TREACHERY OF THE UPLAND KINGS. 74. MUTILATING OF THE UPLAND KINGS. 75. KING OLAF'S HALF-BROTHERS. 76. THE DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY. 77. OF THE LAGMAN THORGNY. 78. MEETING OF RAGNVALD AND INGEGERD. 79. RAGNVALD AND THORGNY. 80. OF THE UPSALA THING. 81. THORGNY'S SPEECH. 82. OF KING HROREK'S TREACHERY. 83. OF LITTLE FIN. 84. MURDER OF OLAF'S COURT-MEN. 85. OF HROREK'S ASSAULT. 86. KING HROREK'S JOURNEY TO ICELAND. 87. BATTLE IN ULFREKS-FJORD. 88. OLAF PREPARES FOR HIS BRIDAL JOURNEY. 89. OF THE SWEDISH KING'S CHILDREN. 90. OF THE SWEDISH KING OLAF'S HUNTING. 91. OLAF THE NORWAY KING'S COUNSELS. 92. SIGVAT THE SKALD'S JOURNEY EASTWARDS. 93. RAGNVALD AND ASTRA'S JOURNEY. 94. OF KING OLAF'S MARRIAGE. 95. THE AGREEMENT BROKEN BY OLAF. 96. HISTORY OF THE LAGMAN EMUND. 97. MEETING OF RECONCILIATION BETWEEN THE KINGS, AND THEIR GAME AT DICE. 98. OF OLAF OF NORWAY, AFTER THE MEETING. 99. HISTORY OF THE EARLS OF ORKNEY. 100. OF THE EARLS EINAR AND BRUSE. 101. OF THORKEL AMUNDASON. 102. THE AGREEMENT OF THE EARLS. 103. EYVIND URARHORN'S MURDER. 104. EARL EINAR'S MURDER. 105. AGREEMENT BETWEEN KING OLAF AND EARL BRUSE. 106. THE EARL'S AGREEMENT TO THE KING'S TERMS. 107. EARL THORFIN'S DEPARTURE, AND RECONCILIATION WITH THORKEL. 108. EARL BRUSE'S DEPARTURE. 109. OF THE EARLS THORFIN AND BRUSE. 110. OF HAREK OF THJOTTA. 111. OF THE PEOPLE OF HALOGALAND. 112. OF ASMUND GRANKELSON. 113. OF THE SACRIFICES OF THE THRONDHJEM PEOPLE. 114. OF THE SACRIFICES BY THE PEOPLE OF THE INTERIOR OF THE THRONDHJEM DISTRICT. 115. MURDER OF OLVER OF EGGJA. 116. OF THE SONS OF ARNE. 117. KING OLAF'S JOURNEY TO THE UPLANDS. 118. THE STORY OF DALE-GUDBRAND. 119. DALE-GUDBRAND IS BAPTIZED. 120. HEDEMARK BAPTIZED. 121. RECONCILIATION OF THE KING AND EINAR. 122. RECONCILIATION OF THE KING AND ERLING. 123. HERE BEGINS THE STORY OF ASBJORN SELSBANE. 124. MURDER OF THORER SEL. 125. OF SKJALG, THE SON OF ERLING SKJALGSON. 126. OF THORARIN NEFIULFSON. 127. ERLING'S RECONCILIATION WITH KING OLAF. 128. OF THORER HUND AND ASBJORN SELSBANE. 129. KING OLAF BAPTIZES IN VORS AND VALDERS. 130. OF EINAR TAMBASKELFER. 131. THE BIRTH OF KING MAGNUS. 132. THE MURDER OF ASBJORN SELSBANE. 133. OF KING OLAF. 134. KING OLAF'S MESSAGE TO ICELAND, AND THE COUNSELS OF THE ICELANDERS. 135. THE ANSWER OF THE ICELANDERS. 136. OF THE PEOPLE OF THE FAREY ISLANDS. 137. OF THE MARRIAGE OF KETIL AND OF THORD TO THE KING'S SISTERS. 138. OF THE ICELANDERS. 139. HERE BEGINS THE STORY OF CANUTE THE GREAT. 140. CANUTE'S MESSAGE TO KING OLAF. 141. KING OLAF'S ALLIANCE WITH ONUND THE KING OF SVITHJOD. 142. KING CANUTE'S AMBASSADORS TO ONUND OF SVITHJOD. 143. THE EXPEDITION TO BJARMALAND. 144. MEETING OF KING OLAF AND KING ONUND. 145. THORALF'S MURDER. 146. OF THE ICELANDERS. 147. OF THE JAMTALAND PEOPLE. 148. STEIN'S STORY. 149. FIN ARNASON'S EXPEDITION TO HALOGALAND. 150. DISPUTE BETWEEN HAREK AND ASMUND. 151. THOROD'S STORY. 152. KING OLAF'S LEVY OF MEN. 153. KARL MORSKE'S STORY. 154. KING OLAF'S EXPEDITION WITH HIS LEVY. 155. OF KING OLAF AND KING ONUND. 156. OF KING CANUTE THE GREAT. 157. OF KING CANUTE'S SHIP THE DRAGON. 158. HARDAKNUT TAKEN TO BE KING IN DENMARK. 159. FORAY IN SCANIA. 160. BATTLE IN HELGA RIVER. 161. KING OLAF AND KING ONUND'S PLANS. 162. OF KING CANUTE AND EARL ULF. 163. OF THE EARL'S MURDER. 164. OF KING OLAF AND THE SWEDES. 165. OF EGIL AND TOFE. 166. TREACHERY TOWARDS KING OLAF. 167. KING OLAF'S CONSULTATIONS. 168. HAREK OF THJOTTA'S VOYAGE. 169. KING OLAF'S COURSE FROM SVITHJOD. 170. OF SIGVAT THE SKALD. 171. OF ERLING SKJALGSON AND HIS SONS. 172. OF KING OLAF'S PRESENTS AT YULE. 173. OF BJORN THE BAILIFF. 174. OF RAUD'S SONS. 175. THORER'S DEATH. 176. THE FALL OF GRJOTGARD. 177. KING OLAF SENDS FOR HIS SHIPS AND GOODS. 178. KING OLAF'S COUNSELS. 179. HAREK OF THJOTTA BURNS GRANKEL AND HIS MEN. 180. KING CANUTE'S EXPEDITION TO NORWAY. 181. OF KING CANUTE. 182. OF THORARIN LOFTUNGA. 183. OF THE MESSENGERS SENT BY KING OLAF FOR HIS SHIPS. 184. OF KING OLAF IN HIS PROCEEDINGS. 185. OF KING OLAF'S VOYAGE. 186. OF ERLING SKJALGSON'S FALL. 187. OF THE INSURRECTION OF AGDER DISTRICT. 188. DEATH OF ASLAK FITIASKALLE. 189. CLEARING OF THE URD. 190. OLAF'S PROPHECIES. 191. KING OLAF PROCEEDS TO RUSSIA. 192. CAUSES OF THE REVOLT AGAINST KING OLAF. 193. OF JOKUL BARDSON. 194. OF KALF ARNASON. 195. OF THE DEATH OF EARL HAKON. 196. OF BJORN THE MARSHAL. 197. BJORN THE MARSHAL'S JOURNEY. 198. OF KING OLAF. 199. OF KING OLAF'S DREAM. 200. OF KING OLAF'S HEALING POWERS. 201. KING OLAF BURNS THE WOOD SHAVINGS ON HIS HAND FOR HIS SABBATH BREACH. 202. OF KING OLAF. 203. OF KING OLAF'S JOURNEY FROM RUSSIA. 204. OF THE LENDERMEN IN NORWAY. 205. OF EINAR TAMBASKELFER. 206. OF THE CHIEF PEOPLE IN NORWAY. 207. OF HARALD SIGURDSON'S PROCEEDINGS. 208. OF KING OLAF'S PROCEEDINGS IN SVITHJOD. 209. KING OLAF ADVANCES TO JARNBERALAND. 210. OF DAG HRINGSON. 211. OF KING OLAF'S JOURNEY. 212. OF VAGABOND-MEN. 213. OF KING OLAF'S VISION. 214. OF THE MIRACLE ON THE CORN LAND. 215. OF THE BAPTISM OF THE VAGABOND FOREST-MEN. 216. KING OLAF'S SPEECH. 217. KING OLAF'S COUNSEL. 218. OF KING OLAF'S SKALDS. 219. OF KING OLAF'S GIFTS FOR THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO SHOULD BE SLAIN. 220. OF THORMOD KOLBRUNARSKALD. 221. KING OLAF COMES TO STIKLESTAD. 222. OF THORGILS HALMASON. 223. OLAF'S SPEECH. 224. OF THORD FOLASON. 225. OF KING OLAF'S ARMOUR. 226. KING OLAF'S DREAM. 227. OF ARNLJOT GELLINE'S BAPTISM. 228. CONCERNING THE ARMY COLLECTED IN NORWAY. 229. OF BISHOP SIGURD. 230. BISHOP SIGURD'S SPEECH. 231. OF THE LENDERMEN. 232. KALF ARNASON'S SPEECH. 233. HOW THE LENDERMEN SET UP THEIR BANNERS. 234. OF THORSTEIN KNARRARSMID. 235. OF THE PREPARATIONS OF THE BONDES. 236. OF THE KING'S AND THE BONDES' ARMIES. 237. MEETING OF THE KING AND THE BONDES. 238. BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF STIKLESTAD. 239. THORGEIR OF KVISTSTAD'S FALL. 240. KING OLAF'S FALL. 241. BEGINNING OF DAG HRINGSON'S ATTACK. 242. KING OLAF'S MIRACLE SHOWN TO THORER HUND. 243. OF KALF ARNASON'S BROTHERS. 244. OF THE BONDES OF VERADAL. 245. OF THE KING'S BROTHER, HARALD SIGURDSON. 246. OF THORMOD KOLBRUNARSKALD. 247. THORMOD'S DEATH. 248. OF SOME CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BATTLE. 249. A MIRACLE ON A BLIND MAN. 250. OF THORER HUND. 251. OF KING OLAF'S BODY. 252. OF THE BEGINNING OF KING SVEIN ALFIFASON'S GOVERNMENT. 253. OF KING SVEIN'S LAWS. 254. OF KING OLAF'S SANCTITY. 255. OF EINAR TAMBASKELFER. 256. OF THE SONS OF ARNE. 257. BISHOP SIGURD'S FLIGHT. 258. KING OLAF THE SAINT'S REMAINS DISINTERRED. 259. OF KING OLAF'S MIRACLES. 260. OF KING OLAF'S AGE AND REIGN. 261. OF THE THRONDHJEM PEOPLE. 262. OF KING SVEIN'S LEVY. 263. KING TRYGVE OLAFSON'S FALL. 264. OF THE COUNSELS OF EINAR TAMBASKELFER AND KALF ARNASON. 265. OF EINAR TAMBASKELFER AND KALF ARNASON'S JOURNEY. SAGA OF MAGNUS THE GOOD. 1. MAGNUS OLAFSON'S JOURNEY FROM THE WEST. 2. MAGNUS'S EXPEDITION FROM SVITHJOD. 3. MAGNUS MADE KING. 4. KING SVEIN'S FLIGHT. 5. KING MAGNUS'S JOURNEY TO NORWAY. 6. DEATH OF KING CANUTE THE GREAT AND HIS SON SVEIN. 7. RECONCILIATION BETWEEN HARDAKNUT AND KING MAGNUS. 8. OF QUEEN ASTRID. 9. OF SIGVAT THE SKALD. 10. OF KING MAGNUS'S FIRST ARRIVAL IN SVITHJOD. 11. KING OLAF'S SHRINE. 12. OF THORER HUND. 13. OF THE MURDER OF HAREK OF THJOTTA. 14. OF THORGEIR FLEK. 15. KALF ARNASON FLIES THE COUNTRY 16. OF THE THREATS OF THE BONDES. 17. OF THE FREE-SPEAKING SONG ("BERSOGLISVISUR"). 18. OF THE ENGLISH KINGS. 19. OF KING MAGNUS OLAFSON. 20. KING MAGNUS'S ARMAMENT. 21. KING MAGNUS COMES TO DENMARK. 22. KING MAGNUS CHOSEN KING OF DENMARK. 23. OF SVEIN ULFSON. 24. SVEIN ULFSON CREATED AN EARL. 25. KING MAGNUS'S FORAY. 26. SVEIN RECEIVES THE TITLE OF KING. 27. OF KING MAGNUS'S MILITARY FORCE. 28. OF KING OLAF'S MIRACLE. 29. BATTLE OF HLYRSKOG HEATH. 30. BATTLE AT RE. 31. BATTLE AT AROS. 32. SVEIN'S FLIGHT. 33. BURNING IN FYEN. 34. BATTLE AT HELGANES 35. OF KING MAGNUS'S CAMPAIGN. 36. OF KING MAGNUS'S BATTLES. 37. OF KING MAGNUS, AND THORFIN AND RAGNVALD, EARLS OF ORKNEY. 38. OF KING MAGNUS'S LETTER TO ENGLAND. 39. KING EDWARD'S ANSWER TO KING MAGNUS'S LETTER. SAGA OF HARALD HARDRADE. 1. HARALD ESCAPES FROM THE BATTLE OF STIKLESTAD. 2. HARALD'S JOURNEY TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 3. OF HARALD. 4. OF HARALD AND GYRGER CASTING LOTS. 5. HARALD'S EXPEDITION IN THE LAND OF THE SARACENS (SERKLAND). 6. BATTLE IN SICILY. 7. BATTLE AT ANOTHER CASTLE. 8. BATTLE AT A THIRD CASTLE. 9. OF ULF AND HALDOR. 10. BATTLE AT A FOURTH CASTLE. 11. OF HARALD. 12. HARALD'S EXPEDITION TO PALESTINE. 13. HARALD PUT IN PRISON. 14. KING OLAF'S MIRACLE AND BLINDING THE GREEK EMPEROR. 15. HARALD'S JOURNEY FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. 16. OF KING HARALD. 17. KING HARALD'S MARRIAGE. 18. THE LEAGUE BETWEEN KING HARALD AND SVEIN ULFSON. 19. KING HARALD'S FORAY. 20. KING MAGNUS'S LEVY. 21. TREATY BETWEEN HARALD AND MAGNUS. 22. TREATY BETWEEN HARALD AND SVEIN BROKEN. 23. KING MAGNUS GIVES HARALD HALF OF NORWAY. 24. HARALD GIVES MAGNUS THE HALF OF HIS TREASURES. 25. OF KING MAGNUS. 26. OF SVEIN ULFSON. 27. OF THE LEVY OF THE TWO KINGS. 28. KING MAGNUS THE GOOD'S DEATH. 29. KING MAGNUS'S FUNERAL. 30. OF SVEIN ULFSON. 31. OF KING HARALD SIGURDSON. 32. OF THORKEL GEYSA'S DAUGHTERS. 33. MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN OF HARALD HARDRADE. 34. OF THE ARMAMENTS OF SVEIN ULFSON AND HARALD. 35. HARALD'S ESCAPE INTO THE JUTLAND SEA. 36. OF HARALD. 37. OF HALDOR SNORRASON. 38. OF ULF USPAKSON. 39. OF THE BUILDING OF CHURCHES AND HOUSES. 40. BEGINNING OF HAKON IVARSON'S STORY. 41. OF EINAR TAMBASKELFER. 42. OF EARL ORM. 43. HARALD'S PRIDE. 44. OF THE QUARREL OF KING HARALD AND EINAR TAMBASKELFER. 45. THE FALL OF EINAR AND EINDRIDE. 46. OF KING HARALD AND FIN ARNASON. 47. OF FIN ARNASON'S JOURNEY. 48. OF FIN AND HAKON IVARSON. 49. OF THE COURTSHIP OF HAKON IVARSON. 50. HAKON'S JOURNEY TO DENMARK. 51. MURDER OF ASMUND. 52. HAKON IVARSON'S MARRIAGE. 53. RECONCILIATION OF KING HARALD AND KALF. 54. FALL OF KALF ARNASON. 55. FIN ARNASON'S EXPEDITION OUT OF THE COUNTRY. 56. OF GUTHORM GUNHILDSON. 57. GUTHORM'S JUNCTION WITH THE IRISH KING MARGAD. 58. MIRACLE OF KING OLAF IN DENMARK. 59. KING OLAF'S MIRACLE ON A CRIPPLE. 60. KING HARALD'S FORAY IN DENMARK. 61. KING HARALD HAD A SHIP BUILT. 62. KING HARALD'S CHALLENGE. 63. OF KING HARALD'S FLEET. 64. OF KING SVEIN'S ARMAMENT. 65. BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF NIS-RIVER. 66. KING SVEIN'S FLIGHT. 67. OF KING HARALD. 68. FIN ARNASON GETS QUARTER. 69. OF KING SVEIN. 70. OF THE TALK OF THE COURT-MEN. 71. OF THE ATTEMPT TO TAKE EARL HAKON. 72. OF EARL HAKON. 73. AGREEMENT BETWEEN KING HARALD AND KING SVEIN. 74. KING HARALD'S BATTLE WITH EARL HAKON. 75. DEATH OF HAL, THE MURDERER OF KODRAN. 76. OF KING HARALD. 77. OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND. 78. OF HARALD GODWINSON. 79. KING EDWARD'S DEATH. 80. HARALD GODWINSON MADE KING OF ENGLAND. 81. EARL TOSTE'S EXPEDITION TO DENMARK. 82. EARL TOSTE'S EXPEDITION TO NORWAY. 83. GYRD'S DREAMS. 84. THORD'S DREAM. 85. KING HARALD'S DREAM. 86. BATTLE AT SCARBOROUGH. 87. OF HARALD'S ORDER OF BATTLE. 88. THE BATTLE AT THE HUMBER. 89. OF EARL TOSTE. 90. OF KING HARALD'S LANDING. 91. OF EARL TOSTE'S COUNSEL. 92. OF KING HARALD'S ARMY. 93. OF KING HARALD GODWINSON. 94. OF THE TROOP OF THE NOBILITY. 95. OF THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE. 96. FALL OF KING HARALD. 97. SKIRMISH OF ORRE. 98. OF STYRKAR THE MARSHAL. 99. OF WILLIAM THE BASTARD. 100. FALL OF KING HARALD GODWINSON. 101. EARL VALTHIOF'S DEATH. 102. OF OLAF HARALDSON'S EXPEDITION TO NORWAY. 103. OF KING HARALD SIGURDSON. 104. KING HARALD AND KING OLAF COMPARED. 105. KING MAGNUS'S DEATH. SAGA OF OLAF KYRRE. 1. OLAF'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE. 2. OF KING OLAF'S MANNER OF LIVING. 3. FASHION OF KING OLAF'S COURT. 4. ARRANGEMENT OF KING OLAF'S COURT. 5. KING SVEIN ULFSON'S DEATH. 6. MIRACLES OF KING OLAF THE SAINT. 7. OF THE SHRINE OF KING OLAF THE SAINT. 8. KING OLAF WAS BLESSED WITH PEACE. 9. MEETING OF OLAF KYRRE AND CANUTE THE SAINT. 10. A BONDE WHO UNDERSTOOD THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS. 11. OF KING OLAF KYRRE'S DEATH. MAGNUS BAREFOOT'S SAGA. 1. BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF KING MAGNUS AND HIS COUSIN HAKON. 2. HAKON'S DEATH. 3. OF A FORAY IN HALLAND. 4. OF THORER OF STEIG. 5. OF THORER'S ADVENTURES. 6. DEATH OF THORER AND EGIL. 7. OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THE THRONDHJEM PEOPLE. 8. OF THE BONDE SVEINKE, AND SIGURD ULSTRENG. 9. KING MAGNUS MAKES WAR ON THE SOUTHERN HEBUDES. 10. OF LAGMAN, KING GUDROD'S SON. 11. OF THE FALL OF EARL HUGE THE BRAVE. 12. DEATH OF THE EARLS OF ORKNEY. 13. QUARRELS OF KING MAGNUS AND KING INGE. 14. OF THE NORTHMEN. 15. KING MAGNUS AND GIPARDE. 16. BATTLE OF FOXERNE. 17. MEETING OF THE KINGS AT THE GAUT RIVER. 18. KING MAGNUS'S MARRIAGE. 19. OF THE QUARREL OF KING MAGNUS AND SKOPTE. 20. FIN SKOPTASON'S PROCEEDINGS. 21. OGMUND SKOPTASON'S PROCEEDINGS. 22. SKOPTE OGMUNDSON'S VOYAGE ABROAD. 23. MIRACLE OF KING OLAF THE SAINT AT A FIRE. 24. MIRACLE OF KING OLAF ON A LAME WOMAN. 25. WAR IN IRELAND. 26. KING MAGNUS'S FORAY ON THE LAND. 27. FALL OF KING MAGNUS. 28. OF KING MAGNUS AND VIDKUN JONSON. SAGA OF SIGURD THE CRUSADER AND HIS BROTHERS EYSTEIN AND OLAF. 1. BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF KING MAGNUS'S SONS. 2. OF THE EARLS OF ORKNEY. 3. KING SIGURD'S JOURNEY OUT OF THE COUNTRY. 4. OF KING SIGURD'S JOURNEY. 5. LISBON TAKEN. 6. BATTLE IN THE ISLAND FORMINTERRA. 7. OF THE BATTLES OF IVIZA AND MINORCA. 8. DUKE ROGER MADE A KING. 9. OF KING ROGER. 10. KING SIGURD'S EXPEDITION TO PALESTINE. 11. SIDON TAKEN. 12. SIGURD'S EXPEDITION TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 13. SIGURD AND THE EMPEROR OF CONSTANTINOPLE. 14. KING SIGURD THE CRUSADER'S RETURN HOME. 15. EYSTEIN'S DOINGS IN THE MEANTIME. 16. OF KING EYSTEIN. 17. OF KING EYSTEIN'S PERFECTIONS. 18. OF IVAR INGIMUNDSON. 19. OF KING SIGURD. 20. OF KING SIGURD'S DREAM. 21. OF KING SIGURD'S MARRIAGE. 22. OF THE CASES BEFORE THE THING. 23. OF KING OLAF'S DEATH. 24. MAGNUS THE BLIND; HIS BIRTH. 25. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO KINGS. 26. OF KING SIGURD'S SICKNESS. 27. OF KING EYSTEIN'S DEATH. 28. BAPTIZING THE PEOPLE OF SMALAND. 29. OF THORARIN STUTFELD. 30. OF SIGURD AND OTTAR BIRTING. 31. OF KING SIGURD'S DREAM. 32. OF ASLAK HANE. 33. OF A WOMAN BROUGHT TO THE KING. 34. HARALD GILLE COMES TO NORWAY. 35. RACE BETWEEN MAGNUS AND HARALD GILLE. 36. OF SIGURD'S SWIMMING. 37. OF HARALD AND SVEIN RIMHILDSON. 38. OF KING OLAF'S MIRACLE. 39. KING OLAF'S MIRACLE WITH A PRISONER. 40. KING SIGURD MARRIES CECILIA. 41. IMPROVEMENT OF KONUNGAHELLA. 42. KING SIGURD'S DEATH. SAGA OF MAGNUS THE BLIND AND OF HARALD GILLE. 1. MAGNUS AND HARALD PROCLAIMED KINGS. 2. OF THE FORCES OF HARALD AND MAGNUS. 3. BATTLE AT FYRILEIF. 4. DEATH OF ASBJORN AND OF NEREID. 5. OF THE COUNSELS PROPOSED. 6. OF HARALD'S FORCE. 7. KING MAGNUS TAKEN PRISONER. 8. KING MAGNUS MUTILATED. 9. WONDERFUL OMENS IN KONUNGAHELLA. 10. THE RISE OF WAR IN KONUNGAHELLA. 11. THE SECOND BATTLE. 12. OF MAGNUS THE BLIND. 13. OF KING HARALD GILLE AND BISHOP MAGNUS. 14. BEGINNING OF SIGURD SLEMBIDJAKN. 15. SIGURD IN ICELAND. 16. OF SIGURD SLEMBE. 17. TREACHERY TOWARDS KING HARALD. 18. MURDER OF KING HARALD. SAGA OF SIGURD, INGE, AND EYSTEIN, THE SONS OF HARALD 1. HISTORY OF KINGS SIGURD AND INGE. 2. OF SIGURD SLEMBIDJAKN. 3. KING EIRIK'S EXPEDITION TO NORWAY. 4. THE TOWN OF OSLO BURNT. 5. OF SIGURD SLEMBIDJAKN. 6. THE MURDER OF BEINTEIN. 7. OF SIGURD'S SLEMBE'S CAMPAIGN. 8. OF KING INGE'S LETTER TO KING SIGURD. 9. OTTAR BIRTING'S SPEECH. 10. FALL OF MAGNUS THE BLIND. 11. SIGURD SLEMBE TAKEN PRISONER. 12. TORTURE OF SIGURD SLEMBE. 13. EYSTEIN HARALDSON COMES TO NORWAY. 14. MURDER OF OTTAR BIRTING. 15. BEGINNING OF KING EYSTEIN. 16. BEGINNING OF ORM THE KING-BROTHER. 17. JOURNEY OF ERLING SKAKKE AND EARL RAGNVALD. 18. BIRTH OF HAKON HERDEBREID. 19. EYSTEIN AND THE PEASANTS OF HISING ISLE. 20. WAR EXPEDITION OF KING HARALDSON. 21. OF HARALD'S SONS. 22. HABITS AND MANNERS OF HARALD'S SONS. 23. CARDINAL NIKOLAS COMES TO THE COUNTRY. 24. MIRACLE OF KING OLAF. 25. MIRACLES OF KING OLAF ON RICHARD. 26. KING INGE AND SIGURD HOLD A THING. 27. OF GREGORIUS DAGSON. 28. OF KING SIGURD'S FALL. 29. OF GREGORIUS DAGSON. 30. RECONCILIATION OF EYSTEIN AND INGE. 31. OF EYSTEIN AND INGE. 32. KING EYSTEIN'S DEATH. SAGA OF HAKON HERDEBREID (HAKON THE BROAD-SHOULDERED) 1. BEGINNING OF HAKON HERDEBREID. 2. OF GREGORIUS DAGSON. 3. KING HAKON'S FLIGHT. 4. FALL OF GYRD AND HAVARD. 5. OF THE CONSULTATIONS OF KING INGE. 6. ERLING'S SPEECH. 7. OF HAKON'S FLEET. 8. SIGURD OF REYR'S SPEECH. 9. OF KING INGE'S MEN. 10. BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE. 11. KING HAKON'S FLIGHT. 12. THE CONFLICT UPON THE PIERS. 13. MUNAN'S DEATH. 14. OF THE FALL OF GREGORIUS DAGSON. 15. KING INGE HEARS OF GREGORIUS'S FALL. 16. OF KING INGE. 17. KING INGE'S SPEECH. 18. KING INGE'S FALL. 19. OF KING HAKON AND QUEEN KRISTIN. 20. OF OLAF'S MIRACLE. 21. OLAF'S MIRACLE IN FAVOUR OF THE VARINGS. MAGNUS ERLINGSON'S SAGA. 1. OF MAGNUS ERLINGSON'S BEGINNING. 2. KING MAGNUS GOES TO DENMARK. 3. BATTLE OF TUNSBERG. 4. OF ERLING AND HAKON. 5. OF ERLING'S PEOPLE. 6. OF ERLING SKAKKE. 7. FALL OF KING HAKON. 8. FLIGHT OF THE CHIEFS OF HAKON'S MEN. 9. OF KING SIGURD'S BEGINNING. 10. EARL SIGURD'S CONDEMNATION. 11. OF ERLING. 12. ERLING GETS NEWS OF EARL SIGURD. 13. OF EARL SIGURD'S BATTLE ARRAY. 14. EARL SIGURD'S FALL. 15. MARKUS OF SKOG, AND SIGURD SIGURDSON. 16. BEGINNING OF ARCHBISHOP EYSTEIN. 17. OF MARKUS AND KING SIGURD. 18. MARKUS AND KING SIGURD KILLED. 19. ERLING AND THE PEOPLE OF HISING ISLE. 20. DEATH OF FRIREK KEINA AND BJARNE. 21. CONFERENCE BETWEEN ERLING AND EYSTEIN. 22. KING MAGNUS'S CONSECRATION. 23. KING VALDEMAR'S EMBASSY. 24. ERLING AND THE PEOPLE OF VIKEN. 25. LETTERS OF THE THRONDHJEM PEOPLE. 26. ERLING AND THE PEOPLE OF THRONDHJEM. 27. KING VALDEMAR'S EXPEDITION TO NORWAY. 28. ERLING'S EXPEDITION TO JUTLAND. 29. ERLING'S EXPEDITION TO DENMARK. 30. KING VALDEMAR AND ERLING. 31. BEGINNING OF OLAF. 32. OF ERLING. 33. BATTLE AT RYDIOKUL. 34. BATTLE AT STANGAR. 35. HARALD'S DEATH. 36. EYSTEIN EYSTEINSON AND THE BIRKEBEINS. 37. BIRKEBEINS, KING EYSTEIN, AND SKAKKE. 38. OF NIKOLAS. 39. OF EIRIK AND NIKOLAS. 40. THE FALL OF NIKOLAS. 41. EYSTEIN PROCLAIMED KING. 42. THE FALL OF KING EYSTEIN. 43. OF THE BIRKEBEINS. 44. OF KING MAGNUS ERLINGSON. PREFACE OF SNORRE STURLASON. In this book I have had old stories written down, as I have heard them told by intelligent people, concerning chiefs who have have held dominion in the northern countries, and who spoke the Danish tongue; and also concerning some of their family branches, according to what has been told me. Some of this is found in ancient family registers, in which the pedigrees of kings and other personages of high birth are reckoned up, and part is written down after old songs and ballads which our forefathers had for their amusement. Now, although we cannot just say what truth there may be in these, yet we have the certainty that old and wise men held them to be true. Thjodolf of Hvin was the skald of Harald Harfager, and he composed a poem for King Rognvald the Mountain-high, which is called "Ynglingatal." This Rognvald was a son of Olaf Geirstadalf, the brother of King Halfdan the Black. In this poem thirty of his forefathers are reckoned up, and the death and burial-place of each are given. He begins with Fjolner, a son of Yngvefrey, whom the Swedes, long after his time, worshipped and sacrificed to, and from whom the race or family of the Ynglings take their name. Eyvind Skaldaspiller also reckoned up the ancestors of Earl Hakon the Great in a poem called "Haleygjatal", composed about Hakon; and therein he mentions Saeming, a son of Yngvefrey, and he likewise tells of the death and funeral rites of each. The lives and times of the Yngling race were written from Thjodolf's relation enlarged afterwards by the accounts of intelligent people. As to funeral rites, the earliest age is called the Age of Burning; because all the dead were consumed by fire, and over their ashes were raised standing stones. But after Frey was buried under a cairn at Upsala, many chiefs raised cairns, as commonly as stones, to the memory of their relatives. The Age of Cairns began properly in Denmark after Dan Milkillate had raised for himself a burial cairn, and ordered that he should be buried in it on his death, with his royal ornaments and armour, his horse and saddle-furniture, and other valuable goods; and many of his descendants followed his example. But the burning of the dead continued, long after that time, to be the custom of the Swedes and Northmen. Iceland was occupied in the time that Harald Harfager was the King of Norway. There were skalds in Harald's court whose poems the people know by heart even at the present day, together with all the songs about the kings who have ruled in Norway since his time; and we rest the foundations of our story principally upon the songs which were sung in the presence of the chiefs themselves or of their sons, and take all to be true that is found in such poems about their feats and battles: for although it be the fashion with skalds to praise most those in whose presence they are standing, yet no one would dare to relete to a chief what he, and all those who heard it, knew to be a false and imaginary, not a true account of his deeds; because that would be mockery, not praise. OF THE PRIEST ARE FRODE The priest Are Frode (the learned), a son of Thorgils the son of Geller, was the first man in this country who wrote down in the Norse language narratives of events both old and new. In the beginning of his book he wrote principally about the first settlements in Iceland, the laws and government, and next of the lagmen, and how long each had administered the law; and he reckoned the years at first, until the time when Christianity was introduced into Iceland, and afterwards reckoned from that to his own times. To this he added many other subjects, such as the lives and times of kings of Norway and Denmark, and also of England; beside accounts of great events which have taken place in this country itself. His narratives are considered by many men of knowledge to be the most remarkable of all; because he was a man of good understanding, and so old that his birth was as far back as the year after Harald Sigurdson's fall. He wrote, as he himself says, the lives and times of the kings of Norway from the report of Od Kolson, a grandson of Hal of Sida. Od again took his information from Thorgeir Afradskol, who was an intelligent man, and so old that when Earl Hakon the Great was killed he was dwelling at Nidarnes—the same place at which King Olaf Trygvason afterwards laid the foundation of the merchant town of Nidaros (i.e., Throndhjem) which is now there. The priest Are came, when seven years old, to Haukadal to Hal Thorarinson, and was there fourteen years. Hal was a man of great knowledge and of excellent memory; and he could even remember being baptized, when he was three years old, by the priest Thanghrand, the year before Christianity was established by law in Iceland. Are was twelve years of age when Bishop Isleif died, and at his death eighty years had elapsed since the fall of Olaf Trygvason. Hal died nine years later than Bishop Isleif, and had attained nearly the age of ninety-four years. Hal had traded between the two countries, and had enjoyed intercourse with King Olaf the Saint, by which he had gained greatly in reputation, and he had become well acquainted with the kingdom of Norway. He had fixed his residence in Haukadal when he was thirty years of age, and he had dwelt there sixty-four years, as Are tells us. Teit, a son of Bishop Isleif, was fostered in the house of Hal at Haukadal, and afterwards dwelt there himself. He taught Are the priest, and gave him information about many circumstances which Are afterwards wrote down. Are also got many a piece of information from Thurid, a daughter of the gode Snorre. She was wise and intelligent, and remembered her father Snorre, who was nearly thirty-five years of age when Christianity was introduced into Iceland, and died a year after King Olaf the Saint's fall. So it is not wonderful that Are the priest had good information about ancient events both here in Iceland, and abroad, being a man anxious for information, intelligent and of excellent memory, and having besides learned much from old intelligent persons. But the songs seem to me most reliable if they are sung correctly, and judiciously interpreted. HALFDAN THE BLACK SAGA. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. Of this saga there are other versions found in "Fagrskinna" and in "Flateyjarbok". The "Flateyjarbok" version is to a great extent a copy of Snorre. The story about Halfdan's dream is found both in "Fagrskinna" and in "Flateyjarbok". The probability is that both Snorre and the author of "Fagrskinna" must have transcribed the same original text.—Ed.
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