The Egil's Saga on Ulf

Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons.

• relationship: Ulf was the son of Bjalf, establishing his paternal lineage

  "There was a man named Ulf, son of Bjalf"

• attestation: Ulf was extraordinarily tall and strong, unmatched by any other man

  "Ulf was a man so tall and strong that none could match him"

• attestation: Ulf spent his youth as a sea-raiding freebooter

  "in his youth he roved the seas as a freebooter"

• relationship: Ulf married Salbjorg, the daughter of Kari of Berdla

  "Her did Ulf take to wife"

• attestation: Ulf held baron's rank following the tradition of his forefathers and was wealthy in lands and chattels

  "Wealthy he was both in lands and chattels; he took baron's rank as his forefathers had done, and became a great man."

Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons. > Chapter 78 - Egil and his band slay twenty-five men.

• attestation: Ulf set a trap with men on both sides of a narrow path between ridge and bog

  "Ulf went forward round the brow and ten men with him."