Heimskringla. Snorri Sturluson

OF GYDA, DAUGHTER OF EIRIE.

       4. KING HARALD'S VOW.

       5. THE BATTLE IN ORKADAL.

       6. KING HARALD S LAWS FOR LAND PROPERTY.

       7. BATTLE IN GAULARDAL.

       8. HARALD SEIZES NAUMUDAL DISTRICT.

       9. KING HARALD'S HOME AFFAIRS.

       10. BATTLE AT SOLSKEL

       11. FALL OF KINGS ARNVID AND AUDBJORN.

       12. KING VEMUND BURNT TO DEATH.

       13. DEATH OF EARLS HAKON, AND ATLE MJOVE.

       14. HARALD AND THE SWEDISH KING EIRIK.

       15. HARALD AT A FEAST OF THE PEASANT AKE.

       16. HARALD'S JOURNEY TO TUNSBERG.

       17. THE BATTLE IN GAUTLAND.

       18. HRANE GAUZKE'S DEATH.

       19. BATTLE IN HAFERSFJORD.

       20. HARALD SUPREME SOVEREIGN IN NORWAY.

       21. HARALD'S MARRIAGE AND HIS CHILDREN.

       22. KING HARALD'S VOYAGE TO THE WEST.

       23. HARALD HAS HIS HAIR CLIPPED.

       24. ROLF GANGER DRIVEN INTO BANISHMENT.

       25. OF THE FIN SVASE AND KING HARALD.

       26. OF THJODOLF OF HVIN, THE SKALD.

       27. OF EARL TORFEINAR'S OBTAINING ORKNEY.

       28. KING EIRIK EYMUNDSON'S DEATH.

       29. GUTHORM'S DEATH IN TUNSBERG.

       30. EARL RAGNVALD BURNT IN HIS HOUSE.

       31. HALFDAN HALEG'S DEATH.

       32. HARALD AND EINAR RECONCILED.

       33. DEATH OF GUTHORM AND HALFDAN THE WHITE.

       34. MARRIAGE OF EIRIK.

       35. HARALD DIVIDES HIS KINGDOM.

       36. DEATH OF RAGNVALD RETTILBEINE.

       37. DEATH OF GUDROD LJOME.

       38. KING BJORN KAUPMAN'S DEATH.

       39. RECONCILIATION OF THE KINGS.

       40. BIRTH OF HAKON THE GOOD.

       41. KING ATHELSTAN'S MESSAGE

       42. HAUK'S JOURNEY TO ENGLAND.

       43. HAKON, THE FOSTER-SON OF ATHELSTAN, IS BAPTIZED.

       44. EIRIK BROUGHT TO THE SOVEREIGNTY.

       45. KING HARALD'S DEATH.

       46. THE DEATH OF OLAF AND OF SIGROD.

      1. HARALD'S STRIFE WITH HAKE AND HIS FATHER GANDALF.

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      Harald was but ten years old when he succeeded his father (Halfdan the Black). He became a stout, strong, and comely man, and withal prudent and manly. His mother's brother, Guthorm, was leader of the hird, at the head of the government, and commander ('hertogi') of the army. After Halfdan the Black's death, many chiefs coveted the dominions he had left. Among these King Gandalf was the first; then Hogne and Frode, sons of Eystein, king of Hedemark; and also Hogne Karuson came from Ringerike. Hake, the son of Gandalf, began with an expedition of 300 men against Vestfold, marched by the main road through some valleys, and expected to come suddenly upon King Harald; while his father Gandalf sat at home with his army, and prepared to cross over the fiord into Vestfold. When Duke Guthorm heard of this he gathered an army, and marched up the country with King Harald against Hake. They met in a valley, in which they fought a great battle, and King Harald was victorious; and there fell King Hake and most of his people. The place has since been called Hakadale. Then King Harald and Duke Guthorm turned back, but they found King Gandalf had come to Vestfold. The two armies marched against each other, and met, and had a great battle; and it ended in King Gandalf flying, after leaving most of his men dead on the spot, and in that state he came back to his kingdom. Now when the sons of King Eystein in Hedemark heard the news, they expected the war would come upon them, and they sent a message to Hogne Karuson and to Herse Gudbrand, and appointed a meeting with them at Ringsaker in Hedemark.

      2. KING HARALD OVERCOMES FIVE KINGS.

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