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SUMMARY
This paper brings together, from various accounts of Jarl Hákon Sigur›arson and King
Óláfur Tryggvason in the preserved sagas of Norwegian kings, incidents which point to
traces of tales which might have been based on the following motif: men who suspect
that someone is out to kill them try to prevent the suspicion from becoming true, but a
series of such attempts creates a situation in which the suspicion actually does come
true. The conclusion of the article turns to Danish holders of power in ninth and tenth
century Norway, pointing out that King Eiríkur in Jutland, said in Heimskringla and
other sources to be the father of Ragnhildur, the wife of Harald Fairhaired, was the
same as the person referred to in Icelandic translations of Latin sources as Hárekur, in
Latin Hericus, Ericus in Danish sources.
Ólafur Halldórsson
Álfaskei›i 96
220 Hafnarfjör›ur
olafurha@hi.is