Sigurd Hladir
When Earl Sigurd was killed, the Throndhjem people mobilized every vessel and chose Sigurd's son Hakon as earl and troop leader.
When Earl Sigurd was killed, the Throndhjem people mobilized every vessel and chose Sigurd's son Hakon as earl and troop leader. (Heimskringla, Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 6. History Of Hakon, Sigurd'S Son.)
Earl Sigurd was killed two years after King Hakon's fall, around 962 AD. (Heimskringla, Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 6. History Of Hakon, Sigurd'S Son.)
Peace was eventually brokered by friends on both sides, giving Earl Hakon the same Throndhjem power as his father Sigurd had held. (Heimskringla, Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 6. History Of Hakon, Sigurd'S Son.)
Heimskringla
- attestation: When Earl Sigurd was killed, the Throndhjem people mobilized every vessel and chose Sigurd's son Hakon as earl and troop leader. (Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 6. History Of Hakon, Sigurd'S Son.)
"Great was the tumult through all the Throndhjem land, and every vessel that could swim was put into the water; and as soon as the people were gathered together they took Earl Sigurd's son Hakon to be their earl and the leader of the troops"
- attestation: Earl Sigurd was killed two years after King Hakon's fall, around 962 AD. (Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 6. History Of Hakon, Sigurd'S Son.)
"Earl Sigurd was killed two years after the fall of King Hakon (A.D. 962)."
- attestation: Peace was eventually brokered by friends on both sides, giving Earl Hakon the same Throndhjem power as his father Sigurd had held. (Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 6. History Of Hakon, Sigurd'S Son.)
"At last it was brought to this, by the advice of prudent men, that Earl Hakon should have the same power in the Throndhjem land which his father Earl Sigurd had enjoyed"
Appears in: Entities in Heimskringla, Norse Tradition