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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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Gudrod's sons, and
turned itself, with its payment of scatt, to
the Swedish king. Olaf was about twenty years old when Gudrod died; and as his brother Halfdan
now had the kingdom with him, they divided it between them; so that Olaf
got the eastern, and Halfdan the southern part.
King OIaf had his main residence at Gairstad. There he died of a disease in his foot, and
was laid under a mound at Gairstad.
(C) ROGNVALD was the name of Olaf's son,
who was king of Westfold after his father. He
was called "Mountain-high."
(D) HALFDAN THE BLACK, Harold Goldbeard, was the name of a King in Sogn; he was married to Solver, the daughter of Earl Hundolf, and sister of Earl Atli
the Slender; their daughters were these: Thora,
the wife of Halfdan the Black, King of the Uplanders, and Thurid, the
wife of Ketil Slate-river.
(E) HARALD THE YOUNG was the son of Halfdan and Thora; to him Harald Goldbeard gave his
name and his realm. King Harald died the first
of them, and next to him Thora, but Harald the Young last; and then the realm came to
King Halfdan, and to the rule thereof he
appointed Earl Atli the Slender. [Book of the
Settlement of Iceland,
by T. Ellwood, 1908.] Later King Halfdan wedded
Ragnhild, the daughter of Sigurd
Hart, and their son was
(F) HARALD FAIRHAIR. When King Harald stepped into the reign in Norway and allied himself
with Earl Hakon, the son of Grjotgarth,
he handed over to Hakon, his father-in-law, the
folk of Sogn, while he himself (Harald) went east into the Wick. But Earl Atli would not give up the rule till he should have
seen King Harald on the matter. Over this the
Earls strove with great mettle, and each drew an armed host together, and
they met at Stafnessvag in Fjalir
and fought. There Earl Hakon fell, and Atli was wounded and was carried to Atil's-isle where he died of his wounds. After this Hastein kept to himself the rule of Sogn, until King Harald and
Earl Sigurd drew together an army against him,
whereupon Hastein fled away and betook himself
to journeying to Iceland. He had for wife Thora,
the daughter of Olvir, and their sons were Olvir and Atli.
*28. IVAR JARL
of the uplanders married the sister of Eystein Glumara of Trondheim. Ari, hinus Frode, Ari the Wise, who
fled from Norway to Iceland
to escape the yoke of Harold Fairhair was
kinsman to Rognvald, and they were both of the Yngling family. Ari was the
author of the matter in the Saga of the Burnt Njal,
the Schede and the Landamana
Book, and was the greatest historian of his day among the Northmen. Rognvald and Ari were cousin german to
Harold Fairhair, and they were descendants of Eystein the father of Halfdan
the Mild, or as Ari calls him the Old, that is
to say the elder or senior, to distinguish him from Halfdan
the Black who was their junior. Says Ari,-Rognvald
Jarl of Maeri was son of Eystein
Glumora, son of Ivar Uppland Jarl, son of Halfdan
the Old, that is to say Halfdan the Mild or Bad
Entertainer (The Landnamabok IV. 8), as is
shown in the chart showing their common ancestry. Halfdan
the Mild had two sons, Gurod the Magnificent
and Ivar Jarl of the Upplanders.
He was succeeded by his son, Eystein Glumra.
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