Note to Anon Krm 7^VIII

[4] Eysteinn konungr ‘King Eysteinn’: This Eysteinn, here stated to have died at Ullarakr, may well be identical with the Eysteinn who, in RagnSon (Hb 1892-6, 459-62) and Ragn (Ragn 1906-8, 132-50), is stated to have ruled in Uppsala, Sweden, to have caused the deaths of Eiríkr and Agnarr, Ragnarr’s sons by his first wife Þóra, and to have been defeated and slain in his own kingdom by an avenging army led by the sons of Ragnarr’s second marriage and their mother Áslaug. If so, then the Ullarakr mentioned here as the scene of Eysteinn’s death is perhaps the place of that name close to Uppsala that is mentioned in ÓHHkr chs 78 and 94 (ÍF 27, 111-12, 155), rather than somewhere in Skåne, cf. the previous Note. Clearly to be identified with the Eysteinn of RagnSon and Ragn is Ostenus, upon whom, later in Saxo’s account (Saxo 2015, I, ix. 5. 6, pp. 666-7), Agnerus (= Agnarr), son of Regnerus Lothbrog by his second wife Thora, seeks to avenge the death of his half-brother Ericus (= Eiríkr), son of Regnerus by his third wife Suanlogha, in Sweden.

References

1. Bibliography
2. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
3. Hb 1892-6 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1892-6. Hauksbók udgiven efter de Arnamagnæanske håndskrifter no. 371, 544 og 675, 4° samt forskellige papirshåndskrifter. Copenhagen: Det kongelige nordiske oldskrift-selskab.
4. Ragn 1906-8 = Olsen 1906-8, 111-222.
5. Saxo 2015 = Friis-Jensen, Karsten, ed. 2015. Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes. Trans. Peter Fisher. Oxford Medieval Texts. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon.
6. Internal references
7. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ragnars saga loðbrókar’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 616. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=81> (accessed 26 April 2024)
8. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ragnars sona þáttr’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 777. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=85> (accessed 26 April 2024)
9. (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Óláfs saga helga (in Heimskringla)’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=152> (accessed 26 April 2024)