KING HALFDAN. 461 



lost his right hand and had besides three other wounds. 

 Thereupon Haki rode with his men to Stein in Eingariki, 

 which was Sigurd's farm, and took away his daughter Ragnhild 

 and his son Gudthorm and a great deal of property home with 

 himself to Hadaland ; and a little later he had a great feast 

 prepared, and intended to keep his wedding, Imt that was 

 delayed, because his wounds would not get cured. Ragnhild 

 was then fifteen winters old, but C4udthorm fourteen winters. 

 Thus passed the autumn and winter to Yule, while Haki lay 

 sick from his wounds. Then was King Halfdan the Black iii 

 Heidniork at his farms. He sent Harek Gand (the wolf, the 

 wizard) with a hundred men, and they crossed on the ice of 

 the Mjors (Mjosen) to Hadaland one night and arrived at 

 dawn to King Haki's farm and took possession of all the doors 

 in the skali, in which the hirdmen slept, and then they went 

 to King Haki's sleeping-chamber (skemma) and took Ragnild 

 and Gudthorm her brother, and all the property that was there 

 and carried away with them, and burned the skali with all the 

 hirdmen and then went away. But King Haki arose and 

 dressed himself and walked after them for awhile, and when 

 lie came down to the ice, then he turned the guards of his 

 sword downward and threw himself upon its point and died 

 therefrom, and is inoundlaid on the brink. King Halfdan saw 

 that they were driving across the ice with a tented waggon, 

 and therefore thought that they had performed his errand ,i> 

 he wanted it. He then sent word all around the neighbour- 

 hood, and invited all the prominent men of Heidniork, and 

 that day had a great feast and held his wedding with luignhild, 

 and they then lived together for many days. Their son was 

 King Harald Fairhair, who was the first sole king of Norway ' 

 (Ragnar Lodbrok's Sons, c. 5). 



"There ruled in Denmark two kings, Sigrfrodi and Halfdan. 

 and after them Helgi ; the latter had a fight with Olaf King of 

 Sweden in which he fell, and Olaf afterwards ruled long over 

 Denmark (Danmork) and Sweden, dying on a sick bed. After 

 him Gyrd and Knut took the kingship in Denmark, and after 

 them Siggeir, followed by Olaf Kinriksson, who was a nephew of 

 Moallda the Stout (digra), mother of Ivar Vidfadmi ; he ruled 

 long as king over Jutland, and was called Olaf Enski (the 

 English). His son Grim Gani, who took the kingship after 

 his father, was father of Audulf the Rich, tax-king in Jutland 

 of Ragnar Lodbrok's sous. Audulfs son Gorm, who also was 

 tax-king in Jutland, was called Gorm the Childless. He wa> 

 powerful and well loved by his men. He had long ruled over 

 the country at this time " (Flateyjarbok, vol. i.). 



