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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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land, so great a
number came there to him that the land could not support them. Then there
came dear times and famine, which they ascribed to their king; as the
Swedes used always to reckon good or bad crops for or against their
kings. The Swedes took it amiss that Olaf was sparing in his sacrifices,
and believed the dear times must proceed from this cause. The Swedes
therefore gathered together troops, made an expedition against King Olaf,
surrounded his house, and burnt him in it, giving him to Odin as a
sacrifice for good crops. This happened at the Venner
lake. Those of the Swedes who had more understanding found that the dear
times proceeded from there being a greater number of people on the land
than it could support, and that the king could not be blamed for this.
They took the resolution, therefore, to cross the Eida
forest with all their men, and came quite unexpectedly into Coloer, where they put to death King Solve, and took
prisoner Halfdan Huitbein,
son of Eystein, and made him their chief, and
gave him the title of king. Thereupon he subdued Soloer,
and proceeding with his army into Raumarige,
plundered there, and laid that district also in subjection by force of
arms.
*31. HALFDAN
HUITBEIN became a great king. He was married to Asa,
a daughter of Eystein the Severe, who was king
of the Upland people, and ruled over Hedemark. Halfdan subdued a
great part of Hedemark, Thoten,
Hadeland, and much of Westfold,
all districts in Norway.
He lived to be an old man, and died in his bed at Thoten,
from whence his body was transported to Westfold,
and was buried under a mount at a place called Skaerid,
at Skiringsall. Ingiald,
Halfdan's brother, was king of Vaermeland; but after his death King Halfdan took possession of Vaermeland,
raised scatt from it, and placed earls over it
as long as he lived.
*30. EYSTEIN, Halfdan Huitbein's son,
became king after in Raumarige and Westfold. He was married to Hilde, a daughter of Eric
Agnarson, who was king in Westfold.
Agnar, Eric's father, was a son of Sigtryg, king in the Vend district. King Eric had no
son, and died while King Halfdan Huitbein was still in life. The father and son, Halfdan and Eystein, then
took possession of the whole of Westfold, which
Eystein ruled over as long as he lived. At that
time there lived at Varna
a king called Skiold, who was a great warlock.
King Eystein went with some ships of war to Varna, plundered
there, and carried away all he could find of clothes or other valuables,
and of peasants' stock, and killed cattle on the strand for provision,
and then went off. King Skiold came to the
strand with his army, just as Eystein was at
such a distance over the fiord that King Skiold
could only see his sails. Then he took his cloak, waved it, and blew into
it. King Eystein was sitting at the helm as
they sailed within the Earl Isles, and another ship was sailing at the
side of his, when there came a stroke of a wave,
by which the boom of the other ship struck the king and threw him
overboard, which proved his death. His men fished up his body, and it was
carried into Borre, where a mound was thrown up
over it, upon a cleared field out towards the sea at Vodle,
now the farm Vold, on which the mounds of Eystein and his son Halfdan
and others still remain. It adjoins Borre,
about six miles from Tunsberg.
*29. HALFDAN was
the name of King Eystein's son, who succeeded
him. He was called Halfdan the Mild, but the
Bad Entertainer; that is to say, he was
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