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OLAFR TRYGGVASON AND VOLODIMER THE GREAT 23can deduce that time intervals can be extracted from the texts and studiedseparately.In addition to the time intervals, there are also summations, which can beeither partial (e.g., ОТ was nine years old [=3 + 6] when he arrived inNovgorod), or general (e.g., ОТ was twenty-seven years old when hebecame king of Norway). The partial summation may or may not be a productof the original source, whereas the general summation is made by thecompilers.Keeping this in mind, one arrives at two starting points and at the followinginventory of nine time intervals and six summations—three partial andthree general:Starting PointsA. ОТ was three years old when his father was killed (Ágrip);B. ОТ was born posthumously (»Ari 46 > Oddr, Hkr, OsTm).Inventory of Time Intervals1. OT *born after his father's death, 47 spent one year with his maternalgrandfather (*Ari > Oddr, Hkr, OsTm);2. ОТ stayed two years with Hákon gamli in Sweden (*Ari > OsTm, Oddr,Hkr, OsTm);3. ОТ spent six years in Estnish captivity (*Ari [> OsTm], Oddr, Hkr,OsTm);4. ОТ resided in Garör/Garöariki for nine years (Hkr, OsTm);5. ОТ spent three years in Wendland (Oddr, Hkr, OsTm);6. ОТ harried in the North Sea for nine years (Oddr);7. ОТ was active in the British Isles for four years, until his baptism on theIsles of Scilly (Hkr, OsTm; cf. Orkn 4 *);8. *OT was active in the British Isles for two years after his baptism (AnnR); 4946The asterisk before Ari's name indicates that this is quoted from Oddr's OsT rather thanfrom the original work by Ari, which has not come down to us.47The notion that ОТ was born after his father's death was subsequently added by clerics tothe simple time interval.48Orkneyinga saga, ed. Finnbogi Guimundsson (IF 34) (Reykjavik, 1965), p. 25: "OluffTrygges0n vaar fire Aar udi Kriig і Vesterlandene, effterat hand kam fra Vindland...." [ÓláfrTryggvason spent four years looting in the British Isles, after his return from Wendland....].49The Ann R (and other annals) had already synchronized the data of the intervals, so thatthere one finds A.D. 993 as the date of OT's baptism and 995 as that of his return to Norway. Cf.p. 19.