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descended, as well as kings of England ; and Thorir jarl the 

 Silent, who was married to Harald Fairhair's daughter Arbot, 

 their daughter was Bergljot, mother of Hakon jarl the Great ' 

 (Landnamabok, iv. 8). 



" King Olaf had been on warfare west in Valland two sum- 

 mers and one winter. Two jarls were then in Valland, Vil- 

 hjalm and Eodbert ; their father was Rikard Kuda-jarl (jarl of 

 Rouen); they ruled Northrnandi. 1 Their sister was Queen 

 Emma, who was married to Adalrad (Engla-king) ; their sons 

 were Jatnumd, Jatvard the Good, Jatvig and Jatgeir. Rikard 

 Ruda-jarl was the son of Rikard son of Vilhjalm Langaspjot 

 (iongue epee) ; he was the son of Gongu Hrolf jarl who won 

 Nordmandi ; he was the son of Rognvald Msera jarl the Powerful, 

 as before is written. From Gongu Hrolf have sprung the 

 Riida jarls, and long after they reckoned themselves to be the 

 kinsmen of the chiefs of Norway, and thought so for a long 

 time, and were always great friends of the Northmen, and all 

 of these men had a peace-land in Normandy who would accept 

 it. For the autumn King Olaf came to Normandy, and stayed 

 during the winter in Signa (Seine), and had peace-land there " 

 (St. Olaf's Saga, ch. 19). 



Here is the genealogy of the jarls of Normandy. 



" King Harald was the son of Halfdan (the Black), king in 

 Uppland ; Halfdan the Black's father was Gudrod Veidikonung 

 (hunting king), son of Halfdan, who was called the liberal 

 and food-stingy, for he gave his men as much pay in gold as 

 other kings theirs in silver, but he kept them short in food. 

 The mother of Halfdan the Black was Asa, daughter of Harald 

 Granraud, King of Agdir. 



" The mother of Harald Fairhair was Ragnhild, daughter of 

 Sigurd Hjort (Hart), whose mother was Aslaug, daughter of 

 Sigurd Snake-eye, son of Ragnar Lodbrok. 



" Sigurd Snake-eye's mother was Aslaug, daughter of Sigurd 

 Fafnisbani. Sigurd Hjort was married to Thyri, daughter of 

 Klakkharald of Jutland and sister of Thyri, Denmark's improver 

 (Danmarkarbot), who was married to Gorrn (the Old) Kinp- 

 of Denmark " (Flateyjarbok, vol. i., ch. i.). 



The testimony of the Sagas, as we see, is here unmistakable, 

 clear, and to the point. When we compare them with 

 the Frankish annals and their fabulous and strange stories 

 and discordant dates, we cannot but give the preference to 

 the Sagas. 



1 Northmandi ; th is here in the place of the soft Icelandic d or i$. 



