The Egil's Saga on Arinbjorn
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 48 - Of the banquet at earl Arnfid's.
- attestation: Arinbjorn offered to intercede with Eric on Egil's behalf
"Arinbjorn said he would use his influence with king Eric."
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 56 - Marriage of Egil.
attestation: Arinbjorn approved the match and together with Egil approached Bjorn, who also consented
"the end of the matter was that Egil and Asgerdr were betrothed, and the wedding was to be at Arinbjorn's."
attestation: Arinbjorn was angry that his father's sister Thora had been called a bondwoman and went to King Eric
"Arinbjorn was very angry that Thora his father's sister had been called a bondwoman. Arinbjorn went to king Eric, and declared this matter before him."
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 57 - Suit between Egil and Onund.
attestation: Arinbjorn ruled which judges came from the Firth-folk and Thord of Aurland ruled the Sogn-folk judges, all of one party
"Arinbjorn ruled who should be judges from the Firth-folk, Thord of Aurland who should be so from the Sogn-folk. All these were of one party."
attestation: Arinbjorn produced twelve witnesses who could swear to the terms of the reconciliation
"Then Arinbjorn produced witnesses, twelve men, and all well chosen. These all had heard, being present, the reconciliation of Thorir and Bjorn"
attribution: Arinbjorn urged Egil to leave the Thing, saying they would not gain anything that day
"Go we away, Egil; we shall not here effect to-day anything that will be to our gain."
attribution: Arinbjorn warned that the king was wrathful and urged everyone to embark and go home immediately
"the king is much in wrath, so that I expect our men will get hard measure from him if he can bring it about. I will now that every man embark on his ship and go home."
attribution: Arinbjorn told Egil to take the cutter with thirty men and travel by night to avoid the king
"Now go you with your comrades on board the cutter that lies here outside the long-ship, and get you away at once. Travel by night so much as you may, and not by day"
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 58 - Of king Eric and Egil.
attribution: Arinbjorn told the king Egil was not aboard and invited him to search the ship
"Egil is not here,' he said; 'that, O king, thou mayest at once see. Here on board on none but those whom thou knowest"
attribution: Arinbjorn gave Egil a replacement ship and cargo to sail to Iceland, making good his losses
"I will make good the loss of your ship, and give you another, in which you can well sail to Iceland."
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 62 - Egil's voyage to England.
relationship: Arinbjorn was Eric's foster-brother and foster-father to his son, the dearest of all Eric's barons
"Lord Arinbjorn was king Eric's foster-brother, and foster-father of his son. Dear to the king was he above all his barons"
relationship: Arinbjorn accompanied Eric when he left Norway, going first to the Orkneys where Eric gave his daughter Ragnhildr to Earl Arnfinn
"they first went westwards over the main to the Orkneys. There Eric gave his daughter Ragnhildr in marriage to earl Arnfinn."
attribution: Arinbjorn ordered his men to take weapons and they went to the king's palace
"Let men then take their weapons,' said Arinbjorn."
attribution: Arinbjorn pleaded Egil's case before king Eric, arguing that Egil honoured the king by traveling freely to seek reconciliation
"Great is this honour to thee, my lord, when thine enemies travel of their own free will from other lands, and deem they cannot endure thy wrath though thou be nowhere near."
attribution: Arinbjorn offered that Egil could atone with words of praise that would live for all time
"If Egil have spoken evil of the king, for that he can now atone in words of praise that shall live for all time."
attribution: Arinbjorn insisted the king should not commit night-slaying which is murder
"He will not have Egil slain by night, for night-slaying is murder."
attribution: Arinbjorn counseled Egil to compose a twenty-stanza poem of praise for king Eric overnight to save his life
"Now I would fain that we take this counsel: that you be awake through the night, and compose a song of praise about king Eric. I should think it had best be a poem of twenty stanzas"
attestation: Arinbjorn cited his kinsman Bragi who once saved his head from king Bjorn of Sweden by composing a praise-poem in one night
"Thus did Bragi my kinsman, when he was under the wrath of Bjorn king of Sweden; he composed a poem of praise about him in one night, and for it received his head."
attestation: Arinbjorn sat by the window until dawn and saw a witch-shape depart; after that Egil composed the entire poem and memorized it
"He saw that something of a shape witch-possest moved away from the roof. Arinbjorn sate there by the window all night till dawn. But after Arinbjorn had come there, Egil composed all the poem"
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 63 - Egil recites the poem.
attestation: Arinbjorn came fully armed with all his followers to the king's palace while Eric sat at table
"when Arinbjorn knew this, then went he with all his followers fully armed to the king's palace while the king sate at table."
attribution: Arinbjorn declared he had abandoned all possessions, kinsmen, and friends in Norway to follow Eric
"I have also abandoned all my possessions, kinsmen, and friends that I had in Norway, and followed thee when all other barons deserted thee"
attribution: Arinbjorn threatened that he and Egil would fight together rather than let Egil be slain dishonourably
"I and Egil will now back each other,"
attribution: Gunnhilda declared no one would call Eric greater for slaying a yeoman's son who came freely into his power
"No one will call Eric a greater man for slaying a yeoman's son, a foreigner, who has freely come into his power."
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 64 - Egil's life is given him.
attestation: Arinbjorn escorted Egil with a hundred armed men to king Athelstan, where they were well received
"He rode away with Egil, and a hundred fully armed men with him. Arinbjorn rode with that force till they came to king Athelstan, where they were well received."
attestation: Dragvandill had passed from Kettle Haeing to Grim Shaggy-skin to Thorolf to Skallagrim to Thorolf Skallagrimsson to Arinbjorn
"This had been given to Arinbjorn by Thorolf Skallagrimsson; but before that Skallagrim had received it from Thorolf his brother; but to Thorolf the sword was given by Grim Shaggy-skin, son of Kettle Hæing."
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 70 - Egil goes abroad.
attestation: Arinbjorn returned to Norway, reclaimed his grants and possessions, and found great favour with king Hacon
"Arinbjorn was now come to Norway. He had taken again the grants and possessions that he had before, and had gotten great favour with the king."
attestation: Arinbjorn gave Egil a trailing silk robe broidered with gold and a complete suit of English cloth as Yule gifts
"Arinbjorn gave Egil as a Yule-gift a trailing robe made of silk, and richly broidered with gold, studded with gold buttons in front all down to the hem."
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 71 - Egil's sadness.
attribution: Arinbjorn warned that the king's treasury has a wide entrance but a narrow exit
"The king's treasury hath a wide entrance, but a narrow exit."
attestation: Arinbjorn went to Rogaland to plead Egil's cause before king Hacon on a twenty-oared galley
"He manned with his house-carles a twenty-oared galley that he had."
attestation: Arinbjorn paid Egil forty marks of silver from his own pocket for the Ljot inheritance
"This money I pay you, Egil, for those lands which belonged to Ljot the Pale. I deem it just that you should have this reward from me"
Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 72 - Of Arinbjorn's harrying.
attestation: Arinbjorn prepared three war-ships with three hundred men for a freebooting voyage in the spring
"He made ready in the spring three war-ships, all large, and he had three hundred men."
attestation: They harried southward along the coast to Saxland in summer and got wealth
"Arinbjorn and Egil with the war-ships held a southward course along the coast; then took their force still southwards to Saxland, where they harried in the summer and got wealth."
attestation: They sailed to Denmark and at Lima-firth Arinbjorn announced he would seek Eric's sons
"when they came to Lima-firth and lay at Hals, Arinbjorn held a meeting of his men, and laid before them his plans. 'Now will I,' said he, 'go seek Eric's sons"
attestation: Arinbjorn advised Egil to return to Norway and then Iceland, warning about the threat from Gunnhilda's sons
"For you, Egil, methinks, the best counsel is that, as soon as we part, you return to N"