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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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court. Then Solve
went to Sigtun, and desired that the Swedes
should receive him and give him the title of king; but they collected an
army, and tried to defend the country against him, on which there was a
great battle, that lasted, according to report, eleven days. There King
Solve was victorious, and was afterwards king of the Swedish dominions
for a long time, until at last the Swedes betrayed him, and he was
killed.
*35. YNGVAR, who
was King Eystein's son, then became king of Sweden.
He was a great warrior, and often lay out with his war-ships; for the
Swedish dominions were much ransacked then by Danes and East-country men.
King Yngvar made a peace with the Danes; but
betook himself to ravaging the East country in return. One summer he went
with his forces to Esthonia, and plundered at a
place called Stein. The Esthonians came down
from the interior with a great army, and there was a battle; but the army
of the country was so brave that the Swedes could not withstand them, and
King Yngvar fell, and his people fled. He was
buried close to the sea-shore under a mound, and after this defeat the
Swedes returned home.
*34. ONUND was
the name of Yngvar's son who succeeded him. In
his days there was peace in Sweden, and he became rich in
valuable goods. King Onund went with his army
to Esthonia to avenge his father, and landed
and ravaged the country round far and wide, and returned with a great
booty in autumn to Sweden.
In his time there were fruitful seasons in Sweden, so that he was one of
the most popular of kings. Sweden is a great forest
land, and there are such great uninhabited forests in it that it is a
journey of many days to cross them. Onund
bestowed great diligence and expense on clearing the woods and
cultivating the cleared land. He made roads through the desert forests;
and thus cleared land is found all through the forest country, and great
districts are settled. In this way extensive tracts of land were brought
into cultivation, for there were country people enough to cultivate the
land. Onund had roads made through all Sweden,
both through forests and morasses, and also over mountains; and he was
there-after called Onund Roadmaker.
King Onund one autumn, travelling
between his mansion-houses, came over a road called Himmen-heath,
where there are some narrow mountain valleys, with high mountains on both
sides. There was heavy rain at the time, and before there had been snow
on the mountains. A landslip of clay and stones came down upon King Onund and his people, and there he met his death, and
many with him.
*33. INGIALD,
King Onund's son, then came to the kingdom. The
Upsal kings were the highest in Sweden
among the many district-kings who had been since the time that Odin was
chief. The kings who resided at Upsal had been
the supreme chiefs over the whole Swedish dominions until the death of Agne, when, as before related, the kingdom came to be
divided between brothers. After that time the dominions and kingly powers
were spread among the branches of the family as these increased; but some
kings cleared great tracts of forest-land, and settled them, and thereby
increased their domains. King Ingiald had two
children by his wife:-the eldest called Aasa,
the other Olaf. Gauthild, the wife of Ingiald, sent the boy to his foster-father Bove, in West Gotland,
where he was brought up along with Savre, Bove's son, who had the surname of Flettir. It was
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