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OLAFR TRYGGVASON AND VOLODIMER THE GREAT 13par til er Sigurór mopurbroôir minn leysti mik ¡>aö an.ok flutti mik paö an meö ser austri Garöa Riki. I>a var ek .ix. vetraAöra. ix. uetr var ek i Goröum.erin i vtlegö. po at fyrir manndoms sakir goöra hofpingiavaera ek far vel halldinn.until Sigurör, my mother's brother,ransomed me thence,and took me with him eastwards toGaröarflri [Novgorod], I being then nineyears old.Nine other years I lived in Garöar,still an exile, though I was maintainedin comfort by the humanityof kind rulers.bar naest var ek aa Vûıd landi .iij. vetr. Three years I then passed in Wendland,en .iiij. fyrir vestan hafand [the next] four years in the Westerni hernaöi.Sea [in the British Islands] as a freebooter.1.4.Snorri Sturlson does not give a chronological list in his OsT, not even, likeGunnlaugr, one in disguise; however, in the appropriate chapters, he suppliesdata about the duration of OT's stays in relative chronological order.These are—interestingly enough—in agreement with those of Gunnlaugr:(chap. 6)... pá haföi hon verit tvávetr meö Hákoni gamlaÓláfr var pá {>revetr. 16(chap. 6)... Óláfr var sex vetr áEistlandi í pessi útlegó. l7(chap. 8)... Óláfr var níu vetra,er hann kom i Garöarfki, en dvaldiskpar meó Valdamar konungi aöraníu vetr. 18(chap. 29) Óláfr Tryggvason vart»rjá vetr á Vinölandi. 19(chap. 30)... Óláfr Tryggvasonvar fjóra vetr i hernaö isiôan er hann for afVinölandi, til t>ess er hannkom í Syllingar. 20By then she [Ástríór] had been twoyears with Hákon gamli.Óláfr was then three years old.Óláfr stayed six years inEstland as an exile.Óláfr was nine years oldwhen he came to Garöarflti [Novgorod] andlived then with King Volodimeranother nine years.Óláfr Tryggvason had beenthree years in Wendland.Óláfr Tryggvason passedfour years harrying,after [leaving] Wendland,and before he arrived atthe Isles of Scilly.16Hkr, ed. Aualbjamarson, 1:230; cf. English trans, (with my emendations): Hollander,Heimskringla, p. 147.17Hkr, ed. A&albjarnarson, 1:230; cf. English trans.: Hollander, Heimskringla, p. 147.18Hkr, ed. Aftalbjainarson, 1:232; cf. English trans, (with my emendations): Hollander,Heimskringla, p. 149.19Hkr, ed. ASalbjarnarson, 1:263; cf. English trans.: Hollander, Heimskringla, p. 169.20Hkr, ed. Aoalbjarnarson, 1:265; cf. English trans, (with my emendations): Hollander,Heimskringla, p. 170.