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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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pressed upon his head;
and it was his death. The Swedes took his body and burnt it at a river
called Sktaa, where a standing stone was raised
over him.
*49. VISBUR
inherited after his father Vanland. He married
the daughter of Aude the Rich, and gave her as
her bride-gift three large farms, and a gold ornament. They had two sons,
Gisle and Ond; but Visbur left her and took another wife, whereupon she
went home to her father with her two sons. Visbur
had a son who was called Domald, and his
stepmother used witchcraft to give him ill-luck. Now when Visbur's sons were, the one twelve, the other
thirteen years of age, they went to their father's place, and desired to
have their mother's dower; but he would not deliver it to them.
*48. DOMALD took
the heritage after his father Visbur, and ruled
over the land. As in his time there was great famine and distress, the
Swedes made great offerings of sacrifices at Upsal.
The first autumn they sacrificed oxen, but the succeeding season was not
improved by it. The following autumn they sacrificed men, but the
succeeding year was rather worse. The third autumn, when the offer of
sacrifices should begin, a great multitude of Swedes came to Upsal; and now the chiefs held consultations with
each other, and all agreed that the times of scarcity were on account of
their King Domald, and they resolved to offer
him for good seasons, and to assault and kill him, and sprinkle the altar
of the gods with his blood. And they did so.
*47. DOMAR, King
Domald's son, surnamed the Judge, next ruled
over the land. He reigned long, and in his days were good seasons and
peace. Nothing is told of him but that he died in his bed at Upsal, and was transported to the Fyrisvold,
where his body was burned on the river-bank, and where his standing stone
still remains. It is with this king that the mythology ends and beginning
with his son we enter upon the generations of Rognvald's
ancestry that are capable of proof according to the usual rules for
determining the same.
2.
THE GENEALOGY.
*46. DYGGVE,
that is to say the worthy, the noble, was the name of the son of Domald, who succeeded him in ruling the land, and about
him nothing is said but that he died in his bed. Dyggve's
mother was Drott, a daughter of King Daup, the son of Rig, who was first (of this male
line) called king in the Danish tongue. His descendants always afterwards
considered the title of king the title of highest dignity. Each of their
race was called Yngva, or Ynguni,
and the whole race together Ynglinger. The
Queen Drot was a sister of King Dan Mikillati, from whom Denmark took its name. The
story of the ancestry of the mother of Dyggve
affords an opportunity for a cross reference to the saga of Saxo Grammaticus where in his book seven, under the
account of the reign of King Siwald, he tells
us that by reason of perilous wars and fortunes, the royal line among the
Danes had been so exhausted that by the death of the king, it was found
to be reduced to Gurid, the daughter of King Siwald's brother Alf. Thereupon there resulted a
civil war for the possession of the throne of Denmark. In the previous
generation, he tells us, the conditions were nearly the same in Norway
where the aged king had only a daughter Drota.
The one outstanding
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