The Heimskringla on Harald Grenske

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 15. Division Of The Country.

• attestation: Harald Grenske received Vingulmark, Vestfold, and Agder to Lidandisnes with the title of king, and was eighteen years old.

  "King Harald also gave Harald Grenske Vingulmark, Vestfold, and Agder all the way to Lidandisnes (the Naze), together with the title of king; and let him have these dominions with the same rights as his family in former times had held them"

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 48. King Harald Grenske'S Death.

• attestation: Harald Grenske was king in Vestfold and married to Asta daughter of Gudbrand Kula

  "Harald Grenske, as before related, was king in Vestfold, and was married to Asta, a daughter of Gudbrand Kula"

• attestation: In 994 AD Harald Grenske made an expedition to the Baltic to gather property and came to Svithjod

  "One summer (A.D. 994) Harald GrensKe made an expedition to the Baltic to gather property, and he came to Svithjod"

• attestation: Harald returned to Svithjod the following summer to court Sigrid, proposing marriage, but she told him he was foolish to seek another wife

  "He sent a message to Queen Sigrid that he wished to have a meeting with her and she rode down to meet him. They talked together and he soon brought out the proposal that she should marry him. She replied, that this was foolish talk for him, who was so well married already"

• attestation: Harald Grenske told Sigrid that Asta was not as well-born as himself

  "Harald says, "Asta is a good and clever woman; but she is not so well born as I am.""

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 49. Birth Of Olaf, Son Of Harald Grenske.

• attestation: Harald Grenske's death occurred the winter after the battle of the Jomsborg vikings at Hjorungavag

  "This happened the winter after the battle of the Jomsborg vikings at Hjorungavag"