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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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man in this
emergency confronting the two kingdoms, was Borgar,
surnamed Rig Jarl. (As to his names see Teutonic Mythology by Viktor Rydberg, page 147.) There was warfare in Norway and Gunnar, the bravest of the
Swedes, by the greatest cruelties made the inhabitants of Norway
submit to his rule. The aged king had hidden his daughter Droit in a cave where Gunnar found her and forced her
to marry him. By him she had a son Hildiger. Borgar or Rig, to give him his Norman title, Borgar, made war against Gunnar and overcame him and
took from him both wife and life. Thereupon Borgar
married Droita and by him she had Halfdan, called Dan Mikillati
or the famous in the Yngling saga, who
subsequently married Gurid, the daughter of
Alf, the brother of King Siwald and the last of
the Danish royal line; through their son Harold the Danish line was
continued. The account of King Dygge in the Yngling saga above, says that there was also a
daughter, Droit, who became the wife of King Dyggve. The Danish genealogy gives twenty-six
generations from Gurid to Hadding,
the contemporary of Odin, while the Yngling
saga, as we have seen, gives but nine from Dyggve
to Odin, thus showing where fifteen of the generations of the differ¬ence in the two accounts are to be located. As
Dyggve was the first king of this line, it is
easy to see that his ancestry was not so carefully preserved as that of
the line of Danish kings who had recorded among its rulers several almost
world-wide monarchs. Halfdan was king of Denmark circa A. D. 195, and was the
father of Harald who visited Britain,
and who was contemporary with the Roman Emperor Severus tempo A. D. 211.
The Yngling Saga says that Dyggve
was the first of the line who was called king and the great number of
lapses in the generations preceding this time in the pedigree marks this
as the place where the genealogy of the ancestors of Rognvald
really begins. The ancestry beyond this time up to Odin is admitted as mythologically correct, but lacks that completeness
which is desirable in a pedigree.
*45. DAG, King Dyggve's son, succeeded to him, and was so wise a man
that he understood the language of birds. He had a sparrow which told him
much news, and flew to different countries. Once the sparrow flew to Reidgotaland, that is to Jutland,
to a farm called Varva, where he flew into the
peasant's corn-field and took his grain. The peasant came up, took a
stone, and killed the sparrow. King Dag was ill pleased that the sparrow
did not come home; and as he, in a sacrifice of expiation, inquired after
the sparrow, he got the answer that it was killed at Varva.
Thereupon he ordered a great army, and went to Gothland;
and when he came to Varva he landed with his
men and plundered, and the people fled away
before him. King Dag returned in the evening to his ships, after having
killed many people and taken many prisoners. As they were going across a
river at a place called Skiotan's Ford, a
laboring thrall came running to the river-side, and threw a hay-fork into
their troop. It struck the king on the head, so that he fell instantly
from his horse and died, and his men went back to Sweden.
King Dag was contemporary with his first cousin King Harald
of Denmark, the same
king who is referred to, see post, chapter 11,
section 3, under the caption of The Chronicles of the Kingdom of Bernicia,
as coming to Bernicia
in A. D. 213. In the army which King Harald
gathered to fight Ring, King Dag appears
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