The Heimskringla on Skoglar-Toste

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 11. Of Harald Grenske.

• attestation: In Sweden, Harald joined the powerful warrior Skoglar-Toste, who had no high name or dignity but was a great fighter.

  "There was a man in Svithjod at that time called Toste, one of the most powerful and clever in the land among those who had no high name or dignity; and he was a great warrior, who had been often in battle, and was therefore called Skoglar-Toste."

• attestation: Harald Grenske spent two years in the Uplands and five years living with Skoglar-Toste in Sweden.

  "In the winter Harald, after passing two years in the Uplands, took up his abode with Toste, and lived five years with him."

• relationship: Toste's daughter Sigrid was young, handsome, and proud; she later married Swedish king Eirik the Victorious and bore a son Olaf the Swede.

  "Toste had a daughter, who was both young and handsome, but she was proud and high-minded. She was called Sigrid, and was afterwards married to the Swedish king, Eirik the Victorious, and had a son by him, called Olaf the Swede"