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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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as one of the
supporters of King Harald. The record calls him
Dahar, surnamed Grenski.
[Saxo Grammaticus, book eight.]
*44. AGNE was
the name of Dag's son, who was king after him,-a powerful and celebrated
man, expert, and exercised in all feats. It happened one summer that King
Agne went with his army to Finland,
and landed and marauded. The Finland people gathered a
large army, and proceeded to the strife under a chief called Froste. There was a great battle, in which King Agne gained a victory, and Froste
fell there with a great many of his people. King Agne
proceeded with armed hand through Finland, subdued it, and made
enormous booty. He took Froste's daughter Skialf, and her brother Loge, and carried them along
with him. When he sailed from the east he came to land at Stokkasund, the sound or stream at Stockholm, between the Maelare lake and the sea, and put up his tent on the
flat side of the river, where then there was a wood. King Agne had at the time the gold ornament which had
belonged to Visbur. He now married Skialf, and she begged him to make a burial feast in
honor of her father. He invited a great many guests, and made a great
feast. He had become very celebrated by his expedition, and there was a
great drinking match. Now when King Dag had got drunk, Skialf bade him take care of his gold ornament which
he had about his neck; therefore he took hold of the ornament, and bound
it fast about his neck, before he went to sleep. The land-tent stood at
the wood side, and a high tree over the tent protected it against the
heat of the sun. Now when King Agne was asleep,
Skialf took a noose, and fastened it under the
ornament. There-upon her men threw down the tent-poles, cast the loop of
the noose up in the branches of the tree, and hauled upon it, so that the
king was hanged close under the branches and died; and Skialf with her men ran down to their ships, and
rowed away. King Agne was buried upon the spot,
which was afterwards called Agnefit; and it
lies on the east side of the Taurun, and west
of Stokksund.
*43. ALRIC and
Eric, the sons of Agne were kings together
after him. They were powerful men, great warriors, and expert at all
feats of arms. It was their custom to ride and break in horses both to
walk and to gallop, which nobody understood so well as they; and they
vied with each other who could ride best, and
keep the best horses. It happened one day that both the brothers rode out
together alone, and at a distance from their followers, with their best
horses, and rode on to a field; but never came back. The people at last
went out to look after them, and they were both found dead with their
heads crushed. As they had no weapons, except it might be their horses'
bridles, people believed that they had killed each other with them.
*42. YNGVE and
Alf, Alric's sons, then succeeded to the kingly
power in Sweden.
Yngve was a great warrior, always victorious;
handsome, expert in all exercises, strong and very sharp in battle,
generous and full of mirth; so that he was both renowned and beloved. Alf
was a silent, harsh, unfriendly man, and sat at home in the land, and
never went out on war expeditions. His mother was called Dagrid, a daughter of King Dag the Great, from whom
the family of Daglingers are descended. King
Alf had a wife named Bera, who was the most
agreeable of women, very brisk and gay. One autumn Yngve,
Alric's son, had arrived at Upsal
from a viking cruise by which he was become
very celebrated.
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