The Heimskringla on Aslak Fitjaskalle

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 122. Reconciliation Of The King And Erling.

• relationship: Aslak Fitiaskalle was powerful and highborn; his father Askel and Erling's father Skjalg were brother's sons.

  "There was a man called Aslak Fitiaskalle, who was powerful and of high birth. Erling's father Skjalg, and Aslak's father Askel, were brother's sons"

• attestation: King Olaf placed Aslak in South Hordaland with a great fief, ordering him not to give way to Erling.

  "Aslak was a great friend of King Olaf, and the king settled him in South Hordaland, where he gave him a great fief, and great income, and ordered him in no respect to give way to Erling"

• attestation: Aslak could not maintain his position against Erling when the king was absent and fled to King Olaf.

  "At last the strife went so far that Aslak could not keep his place, but hastened to King Olaf, and told him the circumstances between him and Erling"

• attestation: Aslak returned to his domains after the reconciliation, and the two were in some sort reconciled; Erling continued ruling as before.

  "Then Aslak returned to his dominions, and the two were in some sort reconciled. Erling returned home also to his domains, and followed his own way of ruling them"

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 186. Of Erling Skjalgson'S Fall.

• attestation: Aslak Fitiaskalle killed Erling with an axe blow to the head.

  "Then Aslak Fitiaskalle rose up, and struck Erling in the head with an axe, so that it stood fast in his brain, and was instantly his death-wound"