The Heimskringla on Eyvind Kelda

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 69. The Burning Of Warlocks.

• relationship: Eyvind Kelda, grandson of Ragnvald Rettilbeine and great-grandson of Harald Harfager, was among the captured sorcerers.

  "there was a man among them called Eyvind Kelda, a grandson of Ragnvald Rettilbeine, Harald Harfager's son. Eyvind was a sorcerer, and particularly knowing in witchcraft"

• attestation: Eyvind Kelda alone escaped the burning by climbing through the smoke-hole in the roof.

  "all but Eyvind Kelda, who contrived to escape by the smoke-hole in the roof"

• attestation: Eyvind sent word to the king that he would never return to Olaf's power and would continue practicing witchcraft.

  "he told them to tell the king that Eyvind Kelda had slipped away from the fire, and would never come again in King Olaf's power, but would carry on his arts of witchcraft as much as ever"

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 70. Eyvind Kelda'S Death.

• attestation: Eyvind Kelda arrived at Kormt Island the same night with a longship crewed entirely by sorcerers.

  "That same night came Eyvind Kelda to the island with a well-manned long-ship, of which the whole crew consisted of sorcerers and other dealers with evil spirits"

• attestation: Eyvind used 'caps of darkness' and thick mist to conceal his men through witchcraft, but the spell reversed and blinded the sorcerers instead.

  "Eyvind clothed them with caps of darkness, and so thick a mist that the king and his men could see nothing of them; but when they came near to the house at Ogvaldsnes, it became clear day. Then it went differently from what Eyvind had intended"

• attestation: The reversed spell left the sorcerers unable to see, wandering in circles on the island.

  "there came just such a darkness over him and his comrades in witchcraft as they had made before, so that they could see no more from their eyes than from the back of their heads but went round and round in a circle upon the island"