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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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a common saying
that King Ingiald had killed twelve kings, and
deceived them all under pretence of peace; therefore he was called Ingiald the Evil-adviser. He was king over the
greater part of Sweden.
He married his daughter Aasa to Gudrod king of Scania; and
she was like her father in disposition. Aasa
brought it about that Gudrod killed his brother
Halfdan, father of Ivar
Vidfadme; and also she brought about the death
of her husband Gudrod, and then fled to her
father; and she thus got the name also of Aasa
the Evil-adviser.
Ivar Vidfadme came to Scania
after the fall of his uncle Gudrod, and
collected an army in all haste, and moved with it into Sweden. Aasa
had gone to her father before. King Ingiald was
at a feast in Raening, a village in Fogd Isle, when he heard that King Ivar's army was in the neighborhood. Ingiald thought he had not strength to go into battle
against Ivar, and he saw well that if he betook
himself to flight his enemies would swarm around him from all corners. He
and Aasa took a resolution which has become
celebrated. They drank until all their people were dead drunk, and then
put fire to the hall; and it was consumed, with all who were in it,
including themselves, King Ingiald, and Aasa. Ivar Vidfadme subdued the whole of Sweden. He brought in
subjection to him-self all the Danish dominions, a great deal of Saxonland, all the East country, and a fifth part of England.
This venture of Ivar Vidfadme,
whereby Deira, or that part of England now
known as the county of York, was overrun by this Scandinavian king,
occurred in the time of the eighth reign of Egfrith,
king of Northumberland, and the English historians record that for a time
it resulted in materially reducing the extent of his kingdom, as ruled by
his son Aldfred and which disasters were
retrieved by his son. [See post, Chapter 11, Section 3, Division 2.] From
his race the kings of Sweden
and Denmark
who have had the supreme authority in those countries, are descended.
After Ingiald, the Evil adviser, the Upsal dominion fell from the Yngve
race, notwithstanding the length of time they could reckon up the series
of their fore-fathers.
*32. OLAF, King Ingiald's son, when he heard of his father's end,
went, with the men who chose to follow him, to Nerike;
for all the Swedish community rose with one
accord to drive out Ingiald's family and all
its friends. Now, when the Swedes got intelligence of him he could not
remain there, but went on westwards, through the forest, to a river which
comes from the north and falls into the Venner
lake, and is called Klar River.
There they sat themselves down, turned to, and cleared the woods, burnt,
and then settled there. Soon there were great districts, which altogether
were called Vermeland; and a good living was to
be made there. Now when it was told of Olaf, in Sweden, that he was clearing
the forests, they laughed at his proceedings, and called him the
Tree-feller. Olaf got a wife called Solve, or Solveig,
a daughter of Halfdan Guldtand,
westward in Soloer Islands.
Halfdan was a son of Solve Solvesson,
who was a son of Solve the Old, who first settled on those islands. Olaf
Tree-feller's mother was called Gauthild, and
her mother was Alofa, daughter of Olaf Skygne, king in Nerike.
Olaf and Solva had two sons, Ingiald and Halfdan. Halfdan was brought up in Soloer
Isles, in the house of his mother's brother Solve, and was called Halfdan Huitbein.
There were a
great many people who fled the country from Sweden, on account of King Ivar; and when they heard that King Olaf had got good
lands in Verme-
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