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The Heimskringla on Eyvind Urarhorn

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 60. The History Of Eyvind Urarhorn.

attestation: Eyvind Urarhorn was a great man of high birth from East Agder who made annual viking cruises to the West Sea, Baltic, Flanders, and elsewhere.

"There was a man called Eyvind Urarhorn, who was a great man, of high birth, who had his descent from the East Agder country. Every summer he went out on a viking cruise, sometimes to the West sea, sometimes to the Baltic, sometimes south to Flanders"
attestation: Eyvind commanded a well-armed twenty-bench cutter and had fought alongside Olaf at Nesjar.

"had a well-armed cutter (snekkia) of twenty benches of rowers. He had been also at Nesjar, and given his aid to the king"
attestation: In winter A.D. 1017, Eyvind attended Olaf's Yule feast and received generous gifts.

"This winter (A.D. 1017) Eyvind was at the Yule feast of the king, and received goodly gifts from him"

attestation: Eyvind sailed south to the Eikreys Isles outside Hising Isle and learned that Hroe Skialge had gone north to Ordost collecting levies for the Swedish king.

"He sailed south towards Viken, and brought up at the Eikreys Isles without Hising Isle. There he heard that Hroe Skialge had gone northwards towards Ordost, and had there made a levy of men and goods on account of the Swedish king"
attestation: Eyvind intercepted and killed Hroe Skialge in a sea fight at Haugasund, along with nearly thirty of Hroe's men, and seized all his goods.

"Eyvind rowed in by Haugasund, and Hroe came rowing from the north, and they met in the sound and fought. Hroe fell there, with nearly thirty men; and Eyvind took all the goods Hroe had with him"
attestation: After killing Hroe, Eyvind proceeded to the Baltic for a summer-long viking cruise.

"Eyvind then proceeded to the Baltic, and was all summer on a viking cruise"

attestation: Eyvind Urarhorn pursued Thorgaut to the Swedish coastal islands, killed him and most of his men, and recovered all of King Olaf's goods.

"Eyvind Urarhorn came soon after to Eyland, he heard the news, and sailed east after Thorgaut and his troop, and overtook them among the Swedish isles on the coast, and gave battle. There Thorgaut and the most of his men were killed"
attestation: Eyvind returned to Norway with King Olaf's recovered wares; the king thanked him warmly and promised continued favor.

"Eyvind took all the goods and all the costly articles of King Olaf which they had captured from Gudleik, and went with these back to Norway in autumn, and delivered to King Olaf his precious wares. The king thanked him in the most friendly way"

attestation: Eyvind Urarhorn went on an expedition to the west sea that same summer and came in autumn to Ireland to the Irish king Konofogor

"Eyvind Urarhorn went on an expedition to the west sea, and came in autumn to Ireland, to the Irish king Konofogor"

attestation: In summer 1019, Eyvind Urarhorn was returning from Ireland to Norway when bad weather forced him into Osmundwall.

"The summer after this (A.D. 1019) Eyvind Urarhorn was coming from the west from Ireland, intending to go to Norway; but the weather was boisterous, and the current against him, so he ran into Osmundwall"