Note to Sigv Ást 2^I

[6] áttleifð Haralds ‘the inheritance of Haraldr’: Despite the unanimous agreement of previous eds and translators that this refers to Haraldr hárfagri ‘Fair-hair’, it is more likely that it refers to Magnús’s paternal grandfather Haraldr grenski ‘from Grenland’. Sigvatr regularly referred to Magnús’s father Óláfr as the ‘heir of Haraldr’, presumably meaning the father rather than the remote ancestor, while the concept of Norway as the inheritance of Haraldr hárfagri was not fully established until the time of Haraldr harðráði ‘Hard-rule’ (Krag 1989).

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