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ÓLÁFR TRYGGVASON AND VOLODIMER THE GREAT 31son I>eira,harm átti Elin, dóttur Burisláfskonungs ór Goröum austan okIngigeröar, systur Dagstyggsrisa konungs.a son called Porgils,who married Elin, daughter of Burisláfr,king of Garöar in the east, andIngigerör, sister of Dagstyggr,the king of the giants.Burisláfr (= Búrizláfr) is styled here as "konungr ór Goröum," or "kingof Garôar." Usually, Gar oar is used in the Old Norse sagas to designateKievan Rus', but it is a "movable term," and was originally used for FrisianDorestad, the first great city encountered by the Norse Vikings. 85 I submitthat in the text above Garöar stands for the maritime center Stargard(modern Oldenburg in Holstein), the capital of Wagria. It seems thatGaró ar = Stargard occurs in the extant Hrómundar saga, which mentionsKing Óláfr who ruled over Garöar in Denmark (sá konungr red fyrirGöröum і Danmörk, er Óláfr hét)? 6 Stargard, as the center of ChristianHolstein, came under Danish sovereignty during the last decades of thetwelfth century. 87 Burisláfr of Stargard in Wagria must have been a Christiansince in 968, as mentioned above, the first Wendish bishopric was establishedin his city. 88The name of his daughter Elin is certainly a version of the ChristianHelen.Dagstyggr as a personal name is rare in Old Norse, yet two persons withthat name appear in the Sturlunga saga} 9 The name is composed of twoelements, the well-known personal name Dagr and the appellative styggr.An Icelandic-English Dictionary explains the compound as "day-shy, shunninglight." 90Mesico appears (as mentioned above) as Dagone (= Dagome) iudex inhis famous donation charter to St. Peter, circa 990. Although this designationhas been interpreted differently, it would seem—and our passage fromthe Landnamabók confirms the notion—that Dagone is a Latinized form ofthe Old Norse Dag-r. 91 Mesico/Dagone, rex of the "Sclavie qui dicuntur85See Pritsak, The Origin of Rus', vol. 1, pp. 177,231.86See Pritsak, The Origin of Rus', vol. 1, p. 140.87See Strzelczyk, "Stargard wagryjski,"SSS5 (1975):395-99.88See Adam of Bremen, Gesta, ed. Trillmich and Büchner, pp. 244, 246; Helmold of Bosau,Chronica Slavorum (ca. 1163 -1172), ed. Heinz Stoob (Darmstadt, 1963), pp. 66,68.89See the index in Guftni Jónsson's edition of Sturlunga saga: Annular og nafnskrá(Reykjavik, 1953), p. 224a: Dagstyggr Jónsson and Dagstyggr Póroarson.90An Icelandic-English Dictionary, by R. Cleasby, G. Vigfússon, and W. A. Craigie, 2nd ed.(Oxford, 1957; reprinted 1969), p. 601a.91See Holtzmann, "Böhmen und Polen" (fh. 77); Albert Brachmann, "Die Anfange des polnischenStaates," in Gesammelte Aufsätze (Weimar, 1941), pp. 159-61; Ulrich Noack, NordischeFrühgeschichte und Wikingerzeit (Munich, 1941), p. 283.