The Heimskringla on Einar Skalaglam
Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 6. History Of Hakon, Sigurd'S Son.
- attribution: Einar Skalaglam composed a lay called Vellekla about Earl Hakon's battles and conquests.
"Einar Skalaglam speaks in his lay, called "Vellekla," which he composed about Earl Hakon"
Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 15. Grjotgard'S Fall.
- attestation: Einar Skalaglam's verse says Hakon drove three sons of earls to dwell with Odin in a single fray.
"Earl Hakon's sword, In single combat, as I've heard, Three sons of earls from this one fray To dwell with Odin drove away."
Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 16. Gunhild'S Sons Leave The Country.
- attestation: Einar Skalaglam's Vellekla says Hakon restored Thor's ruined temples throughout the land.
"Hakon the earl, so good and wise, Let all the ancient temples rise;-- Thor's temples raised with fostering hand That had been ruined through the land."
Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 18. Battle Between Hakon And Ragnfred.
- attestation: The Vellekla verse describes the victors treading over piled-up heaps of foemen dead to reach the seashore.
"And when the conquerors took their way To the sea-shore, they had to tread O'er piled-up heaps of foemen dead."