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ÓLÁFR TRYGGVASON AND VOLODIMER THE GREAT 15tekinn af lifi á Sótanesiok er t>ar heygpr ok kallamenn par Tryggvareyr.En aftak hans segia eigiallir einom haetti, sumir kennabúondom, at peim pótti yfirbophans hart ok агфро hann á t>ingi.sumir segja, at hannskyldi gera saett vip foporbróporsunosina, ok tóko peir hannaf mep svikom ok і11ГЕе{ют Gunhildarkonungamóí>or, ok trúa I>v(flestir.put to his life in Sótanes.And he was buried there in a how. Peoplecall it the Cairn of Tryggvi. 25Not all present his [Tryggvi's] slayingin the same manner; some attribute itto the yeoman (bœndr) who were angrybecause of his [Tryggvi's] harsh ruleand killed him at a Thing.The others say that he intended to make anagreement with the sons of his fatherbrother,but they killed himdue to treason and wickedness on thepart of the queen mother Gunhildr, andthat [second version] most people believe.Some details concerning the second version are given in § 9: 26Haraldr gráfeldr gerpi fgrat Tryggva brœprung sinomok drap hann, en Pórólfr lúsa[r]skegghlióp undan si pan тер Óláf,son Tryggva konungs.Haraldr gráfeldr fared toTryggvi, his cousin, andkilled him. But I>órólfr lúsa[r]skeggfled from there with Óláfr,son of King Tryggvi.Ágrip adhered to the Norwegian tradition, which maintained that ОТ wasthree years old at the time of his father's death and that he was sent awaybecause of the civil war: 2717. En aftir fráfall hanspa flypi ¿Estrfp, er Tryggvihafpi fengit á Upplpndom,braut til Orkneyia тер Óláfiprévetrom,syni sinom ok Tryggva.at forpask baepi flaraepiGunnhildar ok suna hennar okHókonar iarls, er pil kipposk páenn um Nóreg, pvíat eigi νφκ>pa enn synir Gunhildar af lifiteknir.Ok кот һоп til OrkneyiaAfter the death [of Tryggvi], flediEstriör, whom Tryggvi had marriedin [Norwegian] Uppland, away with thethree-year-old Óláfr, her and Tryggvi'sson,in order to escape danger from boththe deceitof Gunnhildr and her sons, andHákon jarl, all of whomstruggled with one another forNorway, since [at that time] the sonsof Gunnhildrhad still not been killed.She [Ástríor] arrived in the Orkneys252627On the Cairn of Tryggvi, see Hkr, éd. Aialbjarnarson, 1:214, fh. 2.Ágrip, ed. Jónsson, p. 13 = ed. Einarsson, p. 13.Ágrip, ed. Jónsson, p. 19 = ed. Einarsson, pp. 19-20.