The Heimskringla on Sigurd Ulstreng
Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 5. Of Thorer'S Adventures.
- attestation: Sigurd Ulstreng, son of Lodin Viggiarskalle, raised men against Thorer by sending round the war-token
"The lenderman Sigurd Ulstreng, a son of Lodin Viggiarskalle, collected men by sending round the war-token"
Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 8. Of The Bonde Sveinke, And Sigurd Ulstreng.
attestation: Sigurd boasted there was no man in Norway who required three lendermen besides himself to handle.
"I did not know there was the man in Norway against whom three lendermen besides myself were needful"
attestation: Sigurd delivered King Magnus's message of friendship and submission; an unnamed Elfgrim man replied cryptically with fox-and-trap and Laplander proverbs.
"Here is no need of wheels, says the fox, when he draws the trap over the ice"
attestation: Sigurd demanded land-dues and levy-dues from the great bondes on behalf of the king.
"he demanded land-dues and levy-dues, together with all other rights of the king, from the great bondes"
attestation: Sigurd grew angry at the scornful reception of the king's message and dropped his outer coat to speak forcefully.
"He was now somewhat angry; and added, that they ought not to receive the king's message and errand so scornfully, for it was not decent. He was dressed in a red or scarlet coat, and had a blue coat over it. He cast off his upper coat"
attestation: Sigurd specifically demanded that Sveinke Steinarson pay his just land-dues and surrender his land, or be banished from the country.
"There is one man called Sveinke Steinarson, who lives east at the Gaut river; and from him the king will have his just land-dues, together with his own land, or will banish him from the country"
attestation: Sigurd returned to Magnus in Throndhjem humiliated; Magnus replied 'Did I not say that the help of my lendermen would be needed?'
"Sigurd Ulstreng came, with great difficulty, by land north to Throndhjem to King Magnus, and told the result of his errand. "Did I not say," said the king, "that the help of my lendermen would be needed?""
Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 14. Of The Northmen.
- attestation: Sigurd Ulstreng defiantly refused, daring King Inge to come closer if he wanted to drive them away.
"Sigurd Ulstreng replied to it; saying that King Inge must take the trouble to come, if he wished to drive them away like cattle out of a grass field, and said he must come nearer if he wished them to remove"