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16 OMEUAN PRUSAKmep jHİmr skipsognom. 28En mep t>ví at eigi mátti leynaskferp hennar ok mart kunni til svikagerask, pa sendi hon barnit ábraut me|) manni peim, er sumirkalia Pórólf lúsarskeggsumirlopskeggi, ok hafbiharm barnit á launungo á brauttil Nóregs ok flutti mep miklomótta til Svípiópar.with three ships' crews.Since it was impossible to hideher voyageand many betrayals could happen,she sent her child with her [trusted]man whom some callPórólfr lúsarskegg and othersLopskeggi, and he brought the child[with him] with great danger toSweden.The Norwegian author of Ágrip (and of the Historia Norwegiae, as willbe noted later) uses the proper name Hólmgaror (= Novgorod) and alsorelates that the center of the Estonian pirates was the island of Eyrfsla(Ösel/Saaremaa). 29Ástríor, of course, did not travel to Novgorod, andthere are no traces of a piratic novella of the hellenistic type containing onlyfantastic personal names: 3017 (com.) Ok ór Svfpiopvildi harm fara til Holmgarbs,pviat par var nokkvot aetterni hans.En pá kv$mo Eistr at skipi pvf,er harm var á, ok var sumtdrepit af, en sumt hertekit,fóstri hans drepinn, en harınhertekinn fyr ey peiri, erheitir Eysysla, en sipan seldrí naup.And from Sweden he [Pórólfr] intendedto fare to Hólmgaror [Novgorod], sincethere [there] was some kindred ofhis [OT's].And then the Ests raided the ship,he [ОТ] was on her; some [passengers]were killed and some taken captive.His foster-father was killed, and he [ОТ]was taken to the island calledEysysla [Ösel] and there he [ОТ] wassold in bondage.From § 18 we learn that Óláfr was twelve years old when he wasreleased from bondage and taken to Novgorod, where he was able torevenge the death of his foster-father tórólfr: 3118. En gup, er petta But God, who had chosen that childbam hafbi kosit til stórra hluta, for great deeds,stilti honom til lausnar me|> t>eim arranged liberation in this mannerSee also Historia Norwegiae, ed. Storni, p. 111.28Historia Norwegiae, ed. Storm, p. 113.29Ágrip, ed. Jónsson, p. 19 = ed. Einarsson, p. 20. On the traces of a piratic novella, see Lars30Lönnroth, European Sources of Icelandic Saga Writing (Stockholm, 1965), pp. 17-18; seealso L. Lönnroth, "Studier і Olaf Tryggvasons Saga," Samlaren 84:54-94. Unfortunately, Icannot deal with those interesting problems here.31Ágrip, ed. Jónsson, p. 20 = ed. Einarsson, p. 20.