The Heimskringla on Earl Valthiof

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 88. The Battle At The Humber.

• attribution: The verse 'Harald's Stave' described Earl Valthiof's men lying in the fen so thickly that the Norsemen paved a path across it.

  "Earl Valthiof's men Lay in the fen, By sword down hewed, So thickly strewed, That Norsemen say They paved a way Across the fen"

• attestation: Earl Valthiof and survivors fled to the castle of York, where the greatest English losses had occurred. The battle took place on the Wednesday next Mathias' day, 1066.

  "Earl Valthiof, and the people who escaped, fled up to the castle of York; and there the greatest loss of men had been. This battle took place upon the Wednesday next Mathias' day (A.D. 1066)."

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 100. Fall Of King Harald Godwinson.

• attestation: Earl Valthiof escaped the Battle of Hastings and encountered a hundred of William's men, who fled into a wood that Valthiof then set ablaze, killing them all.

  "Earl Valthiof, escaped by flight, and towards evening fell in with a division of William's people, consisting of 100 men; and when they saw Earl Valthiof's troop they fled to a wood. Earl Valthiof set fire to the wood, and they were all burnt"

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 101. Earl Valthiof'S Death.

• attestation: Earl Valthiof was beheaded after being captured, and the English venerate him as a saint.

  "put him in fetters, and afterwards he was beheaded; and the English call him a saint"