Alf Rode
Son of Ottar Birting who attacked Elda on the eighth day of Yule with eighty men, attested in the Heimskringla.
Alf Rode, son of Ottar Birting, is a figure in the Heimskringla's account of King Hakon's conflicts. On the eighth day of Yule, he attacked Elda with about eighty men, killing Bergliot and his brother Ogmund along with about thirty men total (Heimskringla, 11. King Hakon's Flight). The attack came at night on people who "were very drunk," and Alf Rode set fire to the room (Heimskringla, 11).
The single Heimskringla attestation presents Alf Rode as a loyal enforcer of King Hakon, carrying out a targeted Yule-night raid. The detail of the drunken victims and the fire-setting follows a pattern common in the Heimskringla's accounts of Norse political violence — surprise attacks during feasts, exploiting the vulnerability of celebration.
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