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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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had promised him. Ottar replied, that the Swedes had never paid scatt to the Danes, neither would he; and the
messengers had to depart with this answer. Frode was a great warrior; and he came one summer
with his army to Sweden, and landed and ravaged the country. He killed many
people, took some prisoners, burned all around in the inhabited parts,
made a great booty, and made great devastation. The next summer King Frode made an expedition to the east-ward; and when
King Ottar heard that Frode
was not at home in his own country, he went on board his own ships,
sailed over to Denmark, and ravaged there without opposition. As he heard
that a great many people were collected at Sea-land, he proceeds westward
to the Sound, and sails north about to Jutland; lands at Lymfiord; plunders the Vend district; burns, and lays
waste, and makes desolate the country he goes over with his army.
*37. ADILS was
the name of King Ottar's son and successor. He
was a long time king, and became very rich, and went also for several
summers on viking expeditions. On one of these
he came to Saxonland with his troops. There a
king was reigning called Geirthiof,
and his wife was called Alof the Great; but
nothing is told of their children. The king was not at home and Adils and his men ran up to the king's house and
plundered it, while others drove a herd of cattle down to the strand. The
herd was attended by slave people, carls and
girls, and they took all of them together. Among them was a remarkably
beautiful girl called Yrsa. Adils
returned home with this plunder. Yrsa was not
one of the slave girls, and it was soon observed that she was
intelligent, spoke well, and in all respects was well behaved. All people
thought well of her, and particularly the king; and at last it came to so
far that the king celebrated his wedding with her, and Yrsa became queen of Sweden, and was considered an excellent woman.
King Adils was a great lover of good horses, and had the
best horses of these times. One of his horses was called Slongvir, and another Raven. This horse he had taken
from Ali on his death, and bred from him a horse, also called Raven,
which the king sent in a present to King Godgest
in Halogaland. When Godgest
mounted the horse he was not able to manage him, and fell off, and was
killed. This accident happened at Omd in Halogaland, which is now the province of Norway.
King Adils was at a Disa
sacrifice; and as he rode around the Disa hall
his horse Raven stumbled and fell, and the king
was thrown upon his head, and his skull was split, and his brains dashed
out against a stone. Adils died at Upsal, and was buried there in a mound. The Swedes
called him a great king.
*36. EYSTEIN,
King Adils' son, ruled next over Sweden,
and in his lifetime Rolf Krake of Leidre fell. In those days many kings, both Danes and
North-men, ravaged the Swedish dominions; for there were many sea-kings
who ruled over many people, but had no lands, and he might well be called
a sea-king who never slept beneath sooty roof-timbers.
There was a
sea-king called Solve, a son of Hogne of Niardo, an island in North Drontheim
district, who at that time plundered in the Baltic, but had his dominion
in Jutland. He came with his forces to Sweden, just as King Eystein
was at a feast in a district called Lofond, an
isle in the Maelare lake, on which the palace of Drottningholm
now stands. Solve came unexpectedly in the night on Eystein,
surrounded the house in which the king was, and burned him and all his
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