The Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks on Haakon the

Stories And Ballads > Part Ii > The TháTtr Of Nornagest

• attestation: Content from passage 111

  "He compelled the country to accept Christianity."

• attestation: Content from passage 111

  "For accounts of his life and times, see the Story of Olaf Tryggvison in the Heimskringla, vol."

• attestation: Further content from passage 111

  "he word in the text, '˛ingbítr,' seems to mean 'sharp in debate,' and to refer to his ready wit and astuteness in litigation."

• attestation: Further content from passage 111

  "Guest said that he had been prime-signed. To 'prime-sign' signified to make the prima signatio or sign of the Cross over a person, preliminary to baptism."

• attestation: Further content from passage 111

  "People so 'prime-signed' were admitted to certain parts of the Mass and to social intercourse in Christian communities."