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Updated: May 31, 2025
We have here ten warships, as you see. Yield to us, Estein Hakonson, or we will take by force what you will not give us." The man threw his left hand on his hip, drew himself up, and said something to his crew, accompanying the words by gestures with a spear.
He at least saw cause for thinking that the only men who could succeed in vanquishing King Olaf's Norsemen were the Norsemen of Earl Erik Hakonson. Earl Erik's vikings and berserks, eagerly watching the fray, had seen how the Danish ships had one after another been driven off, disabled and defeated.
There Estein Hakonson must feed the wolves." "And yet, Estein," he added in a lower tone, as he embraced him, "I would that Yule were here again and you with it. I am growing old, and my dreams last night were sorrow-laden." "Farewell, son of Hakon!" shouted a loud-mouthed chieftain. "I would that I too were sailing to the southern lands.
The girl paused for a moment as if to collect her thoughts, and then she said, "You had a brother, King Estein Olaf Hakonson " She stopped again, and seemed to look hesitatingly at him. "What of him?" said Estein. "He fell, alas, long since. Forgive me for calling him to mind now, but he is in my story." "Well?" "Three men were at his death," said the girl, gaining confidence a little.
It is but the work of one night; the same night when Oluf Hakonson, with iron and with fire, burst his onward way through the stubborn ground; before the day breaks the waters of the Mälar roll there; the Norwegian prince, Oluf sailed through the royal channel he had cut in the east. The clouds go, and the years go! Do you see how the gables grow? there rise towers and forts.
His one possible rival and natural enemy, Earl Erik Hakonson, with some few others of the kin of the late earl, had fled in fear from the land, leaving him in absolute possession; and the lords of Viken and other districts of the south, who had hitherto held their lands of the King of Denmark, now became King Olaf's men, and paid him homage and tribute.
Now the summer before these things Earl Eric Hakonson made ready to go from his land west to England, to see King Knut the Mighty, his brother-in-law, but left behind him in the rule of Norway Hakon, his son, and gave him into the hands of Earl Svein, his brother, for the watching and warding of his realm, for Hakon was a child in years.
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