The Heimskringla on Olaf

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 44. Eirik Brought To The Sovereignty.

• relationship: Olaf's son was named Trygve; he and his foster-brother Gudrod were the same age and both promising.

  "Olaf's son was called Trygve; and the two foster-brothers were about the same age, and were hopeful and clever."

• attestation: The people of Viken made Olaf their upper king when they learned that Hordaland had chosen Eirik, and Eirik resented this.

  "Now when the people of Viken heard that those of Hordaland had taken Eirik as upper king, they did the same, and made Olaf the upper king in Viken"

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 46. The Death Of Olaf And Of Sigrod.

• attestation: Olaf and Sigrod formed an alliance and arranged to meet at Tunsberg to counter Eirik's ambition for sole sovereignty.

  "messengers passed between them; and after appointing a meeting place, Sigrod went eastward in spring to Viken, and he and his brother Olaf met at Tunsberg"

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 90. Of King Harald'S Landing.

• attestation: Olaf (Harald's son), the Orkney earls Paul and Erlend, and Eystein Orre stayed behind to guard the ships. Eystein was promised Harald's daughter Maria in marriage.

  "for watching the ships, remained behind the king's son Olaf; the earls of Orkney, Paul and Erlend; and also Eystein Orre, a son of Thorberg Arnason, who was the most able and best beloved by the king of all the lendermen, and to whom the king had promised his daughter Maria."

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 98. Of Styrkar The Marshal.

• attestation: Olaf Haraldson, who had stayed with the ships, learned of his father's fall and prepared to sail away with the remaining men.

  "Olaf Haraldson had not gone on land with the others, and when he heard of his father's fall he made ready to sail away with the men who remained."

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 31. Beginning Of Olaf.

• attestation: Olaf was a son of Gudbrand Skafhaug and Maria, a daughter of King Eystein Magnuson.

  "Olaf, a son of Gudbrand Skafhaug, and Maria, a daughter of King Eystein Magnuson"

• attestation: Olaf and Maria were brought up in the house of Sigurd Agnhot in the Uplands.

  "were brought up in the house of Sigurd Agnhot in the Uplands."

• attestation: Olaf's band went through the Uplands and sometimes to Viken or east to the forest settlements, but never went on board ships.

  "They went with their bands through the Uplands, and sometimes down to Viken, and sometimes east to the forest settlements; but never came on board of ships."

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 33. Battle At Rydiokul.

• attestation: Olaf's forces travelled six miles in the night after receiving the message, which was considered an extraordinarily long march, arriving at Rydiokul while mass was still being sung in pitch darkness.

  "As Olaf got the message in the evening, they travelled in the night six miles, which people considered an extraordinarily long march. They arrived at Rydiokul while the priest was still singing mass, and it was pitch-dark."

• attestation: Olaf's men entered the room, raised a war-shout, and killed some of Earl Erling's men who had not gone to early mass.

  "Olaf and his men went into the room, raised a war-shout, and killed some of the earl's men who had not gone to the early mass."

• attestation: Olaf was afterwards called Olaf the Unlucky, and his people were called Hat-lads; they continued through the Uplands and the forest districts through the next winter of 1168.

  "He was afterwards called Olaf the Unlucky; but others called his people Hat-lads. They went with their bands through the Uplands as before."

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 34. Battle At Stangar.

• attestation: The Hat-lads went to Viken in spring, raised taxes, and stayed through summer until Earl Erling came with troops and fought them at Stangar east of the Fjord.

  "The following spring the Hat-lads went down to Viken, and raised the king's taxes all around, and remained there long in summer. When Earl Erling heard this, he hastened with his troops to meet them in Viken, and fell in with them east of the Fjord, at a place called Stangar"

• attestation: Olaf fled south to Denmark and spent the winter of 1169 in Alaborg in Jutland, where he fell ill and died the following spring.

  "Olaf escaped by flight, went south to Denmark, and was all winter (A.D. 1169) in Alaborg in Jutland. The following spring Olaf fell into an illness which ended in death, and he was buried in the Maria church"

• attestation: The Danes called Olaf a saint after his death.

  "the Danes call him a saint."