The Heimskringla on Ulf

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 63. Of King Harald'S Fleet.

• attestation: Ulf the marshal positioned his ship beside the king's and urged his men to fight bravely for the Norse cause.

  "Ulf, the marshal, laid his ship by the side of the king's and ordered his men to bring her well forward."

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 82. Earl Toste'S Expedition To Norway.

• attribution: Ulf the marshal composed a verse rejecting the claim that two Norsemen must flee one Thingman, protesting his loyalty.

  "If two of us in any strife Must for one Thingman fly for life, My lovely Norse maid, in my youth We thought the opposite the truth."

• attestation: Ulf the marshal died in spring 1066. Standing over his grave, Harald called him 'the truest of men, and the most devoted to his king.'

  "Ulf the marshal died that spring (A.D. 1066). King Harald stood over his grave, and said, as he was leaving it, "There lies now the truest of men, and the most devoted to his king.""