General Notes

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The story was that King Harold had loved a fair maiden of the North, called Gyda, but when he asked her to marry him she had answered that she would not marry a jarl; let him make himself a king like Gorm of Denmark! At this proud answer Harold
loved her more than ever, and vowed that he would never cut his hair until he had conquered all the jarls and could claim Gyda's hand. The flourishing shock of his yellow hari became renowned...When he was king at last he chose Jarl Rogenwald
of More to cut the shining locks because he was the most valiant and best-beloved of all his tributaries.
Jarl Rognwald had a family of sons who were noted men in their day One was called Turf-Einar, because he went to the Orkney islands and discovered great deposits of peat of which he taught the forestless people to make use, so that they and
their descendants were grateful and made him their chief hero.
Another son was named Rolf, and he was lord of three small islands far up toward the Northl. He followed the respoected profession of sea robber, but though against foreign countries it was the one porfession for a jarl to followk, King Harold
was vry stringent in his lawss that no viking should attack any of his own neighbors or do any mischief along the coasts of Norway. THese laws Rolf was not carefl about keeping.
There was still another brother, who resented Haarfagers tyrannies so much that he gathered a fine heroic company of vikings and more peaceable citizens and went to Iceland and settled there. This company came in time to be renowned as the
beginners of one of the most remarkable republics the world has ever known, with a unique government by its aristocracy, and a natural development of literature unsurpassed in any day.