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The Egil's Saga on Thorolf Skallagrimsson

Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 31 - Of Skallagrim's children.

attestation: Young Thorolf resembled his uncle Thorolf Kveldulfsson and was named after him

"It was the talk of all that he would be just such another as Thorolf Kveldulfsson, after whom he was named."

attestation: Young Thorolf Skallagrimsson interceded for Bjorn, persuading his father not to cast Bjorn out

"Then came forward Thorolf Skallagrim's son, and added many a word, and begged his father not to lay this to Bjorn's charge after once receiving him."

attestation: Thorolf persuaded Skallagrim to send men to Norway to seek atonement for Bjorn with Thorir

"Thorolf by his persuasion so managed that Skallagrim yielded and gave men for the outward voyage that summer. These went with message and tokens to Thorir Hroaldsson, and sought atonement between him and Bjorn."
attestation: Thorolf Skallagrimsson went abroad with Bjorn to Sogn where Brynjolf received them joyfully

"Thorolf, Skallagrim's son, settled to go with Bjorn, and Skallagrim gave him mean for the journey. So he went abroad in the summer with Bjorn."

attribution: Eric Bloodaxe admired Thorolf's ship and Thorolf gave it to him as a gift to win the king's favor

"Then will I give it thee,' said Thorolf, 'if thou wilt take the present.'"
attestation: Thorolf and Bjorn spent many summers freebooting and winters with Brynjolf or Thorir

"Many summers they were out a-freebooting, but the winters they spent with Brynjolf, or sometimes with Thorir."

attestation: There was great intimacy between Thorolf and Queen Gunnhilda

"There was great intimacy between Thorolf and Gunnhilda."

attestation: Thorolf Skallagrimsson went to Iceland to visit his father, bringing great wealth and costly things

"Thorolf Skallagrim's son made him ready one summer for a trading voyage; he purposed what he also performed, to go to Iceland and see his father."
attestation: Thorolf took Asgerdr with him back to Norway to return her to her father Bjorn

"Asgerdr, your foster-child, shall go out with me to her father. This he bade me when I came west."

attribution: Thorolf refused to take Egil abroad, saying if their father could not manage him, Thorolf would not risk it either

"'Tis not likely that I shall take you abroad with me; if your father thinks he cannot manage you here in his house, I have no confidence for this, to take you with me to foreign lands"
attestation: The ship drifted to Duck-kyle and the islands in the storm, forcing Thorolf to stay

"The ship drifted over to Duck-kyle, and on the islands there"
attestation: After mediation, Thorolf agreed to take Egil abroad with him that summer

"the end was that Thorolf took Egil, and he went out with him that summer."
attestation: Thorolf threw Skallagrim's broken axe into the sea upon boarding the ship, rejecting the king's gift entirely

"at once taking the axe which Skallagrim had given into his hands, he cast it overboard into the deep so that it nevermore came up."

attestation: Thorolf returned Asgerdr to her father Bjorn and they had a joyful reunion

"Thorolf come off the sea then he went at once to Bjorn, and brought him Asgerdr his daughter. There was a joyful meeting."
attestation: Thorolf delivered a long-ship sail to Eric from Skallagrim and the king received it well

"he said Skallagrim had sent to the king. King Eric received the gift well"
attestation: A coolness existed between the brothers Thorolf and Egil

"between the brothers was rather a coolness."

attestation: Thorolf asked Thorir's help in courting Asgerdr, and Thorir welcomed the match readily

"Thorolf Skallagrim's son now sounded Thorir as to how he would take the matter should Thorolf ask in marriage Asgerdr his kinswoman. Thorir welcomed this readily"
attestation: Thorolf went north to Sogn and proposed to Bjorn for Asgerdr's hand, which Bjorn accepted

"Thorolf speedily opened to Bjorn his errand, and made his offer, asking Bjorn's daughter Asgerdr to wife. This proposal Bjorn took well"
attestation: The wedding was arranged for autumn at Bjorn's estate with many guests

"it was settled that the betrothal should be there, and a day was fixed for the wedding. The feast was to be at Bjorn's in the autumn."

attestation: Thorolf and Thorir were grieved at Egil's actions; King Eric demanded Egil be handed over

"Thorolf was much grieved hereat, as also was Thorir."

attestation: Thorolf and Egil went harrying eastward in spring, winning much wealth in many battles

"in spring they got ready a large war-ship and gathered men thereto, and in summer they went the eastern way and harried; there won they much wealth and had many battles."
attestation: They sailed to Courland and made a peace for half a month's trading before resuming raiding

"They held on even to Courland, and made a peace for half a month's trading there."

attestation: Thorolf's fleet put into harbour in Holland after being driven back by wind

"Thorolf stood northwards with his force past Holland, and they put into a harbour there, as the wind drove them back."

attestation: Thorolf and Egil went freebooting eastward again the following spring, raiding in Jutland and Friesland

"In the spring following that winter Thorolf and Egil made them ready to go again a-freebooting. And when ready, they again stood for the eastern way."
attestation: They then sailed to England where King Athelstan ruled

"they sailed to England."

attestation: Thorolf was armed with a shield, helmet, sword called Long, and a halberd with a two-ell blade called a mail-piercer

"He had a shield ample and stout, a right strong helmet on his head; he was girded with the sword that he called Long, a weapon large and good."
attestation: Neither Thorolf nor Egil wore a shirt of mail

"Neither of the two had shirt of mail."
attestation: Thorolf's force was positioned near the wood, Alfgeir's along the river

"Thorolf's force was drawn up near the wood, Alfgeir's moved along the river."
attestation: Thorolf entered a berserker fury, casting his shield on his back and fighting with halberd in both hands

"Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side."
attestation: Thorolf slew Earl Hring by thrusting his halberd through mail-coat and body, lifting him overhead on the weapon

"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"
attestation: Thorolf and Egil pursued the fugitives across the heath until darkness closed in

"Thorolf and Egil pursued the flying foe. Great was then the slaughter; the fugitives were scattered far and wide over the heath."