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Title: The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)

Author: Snorri Sturluson

Illustrator: Halfdan Egedius; Christian Krogh; Gerhard Munthe; Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen; Erik Theodor Werenskiold; Wilhelm Laurits Wetlesen

Translator: Ethel Harriet Hearn and Gustav Storm

Release Date: July 17, 2007 [EBook #22093]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Transcriber's Note:

The printed book's only clue about authorship is in the Notes. All
other information comes from the Norwegian edition.

Original author: Snorri Sturluson
(generally spelled Snorre Sturlason in Norwegian).
Modern (1899) Norwegian translation: Gustav Storm.
English translation (based on modern Norwegian, not on original):
Ethel Harriet Hearn.

The html version of this e-text includes illustrations, also taken
from the Norwegian edition.]

The Sagas of
OLAF TRYGGVASON
and of
HARALD THE TYRANT
(Harald Haardraade)

London
Williams and Norgate
MCMXI

The places of notes in the text are indicated thus Sec..
The relative matter will be found at the end
of the book in due order
as to page and line.

[Footnote markers shown in brackets [Sec.] were missing from the
printed text and have been supplied by the transcriber.]

THE SAGA OF OLAF TRYGGVASON, CMLXVIII-M

Now it befell in the days of King Tryggvi Olafson that the woman he had
wedded was Astrid & she was the daughter of Eirik Biodaskalli, a wealthy
man who dwelt at Oprostad.

When the downfall of Tryggvi had been accomplished, Astrid fled away
bearing with her what chattels she might. And with her went her
foster-father Thorolf Louse-Beard, who never left her, whereas other
trusty men, loyal to her, fared hither and thither to gather tidings of
her foes or to spy out w