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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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banner of the two
brothers. King Jorund with all his men fled to
their ships. King Hake had been so grievously wounded that he saw his days
could not be long; so he ordered a war-ship which he had to be loaded
with his dead men and their weapons, and to be taken out to the sea; the
tiller to be shipped, and the sails hoisted. Then he set fire to some
tar-wood, and ordered a pile to be made over it in the ship. Hake was
almost if not quite dead, when he was laid upon this pile of his. The
wind was blowing off the land,-the ship flew,
burning in clear flame, out between the islets, and into the ocean. Great
was the fame of this deed in after times.
Jorund, King Yngve's son, remained king at Upsal.
He ruled the country; but was often, in summer, out on war expeditions.
One summer he went with his forces to Denmark;
and having plundered all around in Jutland,
he went into Lymfiord in autumn, and marauded
there also. While he was thus lying in Oddo¬sund
with his people, King Gylog of Halogaland, a son of King Gydlog,
of whom mention is made before, came up with a great force, and gave
battle to Jorund. When the country people saw
this they swarmed from all parts towards the battle, in great ships and
small; and Jorund was overpowered by the
multitude, and his ships cleared of their men. He sprang overboard, but
was made prisoner and carried to the land. Gylog
ordered a gallows to be erected, led Jorund to
it, and had him hanged there. So ended his life.
*40. ON or ANE
was the name of Jorund's son, who became king
of the Swedes after his father. He was a wise man, who made great
sacrifices to the gods; but, being no warrior, he lived quietly at home.
In the time when the kings we have been speaking of were in Upsal,
Denmark
had been ruled over by Dan Mikellati, who lived
to a very great age; then by his son, Frode Mikellati, or the Peace-loving, who was succeeded by
his sons Halfdan and Fridleif,
who were great warriors. Halfdan was older than
his brother, and above him in all things. He
went with his army to Sweden
against King On, and was always vic¬torious. At
last King On fled to Wester Gotland when he had
been king in Upsal about twenty-five years, and
was in Gotland twenty-five years, while Halfdan remained king in Upsal.
King Halfdan died in his bed, and was buried
there in a
The Yngling
genealogist here proves that his knowledge of the succession of Danish
kings is very misty, as a reading of the saga of So Grammaticus will
quickly disclose. Halfdan, the brother of Droit, the wife of Dyggve,
was contemporary with the Roman Emperor Severus, A.D. 211, as the Yngling Saga itself
discloses, yet here the genealogist attempts to place Halfdan
several centuries earlier in point of time.
mound; and King On
returned to Upsal when he was sixty years of
age. He made a great sacrifice, and in it offered up his son to Odin. On
got an answer from Odin, that he should live
sixty years longer; and he was afterwards king in Upsal
for twenty-five years. Now came Ole the Bold, a son of King Fridleif, with his army to Sweden, against King On,
and they had several battles with each other; but Ole was always the
victor. Then On fled a second time to Gotland;
and for twenty-five years Ole reigned in Upsal,
until he was killed by Starkad the Old. After
Ole's fall, On returned to Upsal, and ruled the
kingdom for twenty-five years. Then he made a great sacrifice again for
long life, in which he sacrificed his second son, and received the answer
from Odin, that he should live as long as he gave him one of his sons
every tenth year, and also that he should name one of the districts of
his country after the number of sons he should offer to Odin.
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