The Heimskringla on Ake

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 15. Harald At A Feast Of The Peasant Ake.

• attestation: The bonde Ake invited both King Harald and King Eirik to the same feast in Vermaland

  "He sent men to King Harald, and invited him to a feast, and the king promised to come on the day appointed. Ake invited also King Eirik to a feast, and appointed the same day."

• attestation: Ake housed Eirik in the old hall with old furnishings, and Harald in a new hall with new vessels adorned with gold

  "King Eirik with his court was taken into the old hall; but Harald with his followers into the new. The same difference was in all the table furniture"

• attestation: Ake had formerly been a man of Halfdan the Black

  "Ake the bonde had formerly been King Halfdan the Black s man."

• attestation: Ake gave his twelve-year-old son Ubbe to Harald's service

  "leading in his hand his son Ubbe, a boy of twelve years of age, and said, "If the goodwill I have shown to thee, sire, in my feast, be worth thy friendship, show it hereafter to my son. I give him to thee now for thy service.""

• attestation: When Eirik questioned Ake's favoritism, Ake said the old vessels matched the old king while the new suited the young Harald

  ""that all the utensils for your drinking were old, was because you are now old; but King Harald is in the bloom of youth, and therefore I gave him the new things.""

• attestation: Ake claimed mutual obligation, telling Eirik 'thou art just as much my man'

  ""And as to my being thy man, thou art just as much my man.""

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 38. Harald Gormson'S Death.

• relationship: Vagn was the son of Ake and Thorgunna, and nephew of Bue and Sigurd.

  "and also Vagn, a son of Ake and Thorgunna, and a sister's son of Bue and Sigurd."