'EYSTEIN' SVEIDA (SVEITHI) SVIDRASSON - The Sea King
| BIRTH: Abt 650 in Raumsdal, Telemark, Norway DEATH: At sea near Vestfold, Norway BURIED: Bore, Vestfold, Norway FATHER: Svidri HEYTSSON - Birth: Abt 600 in Raumsdal, Telemark, Norway MOTHER: Asa EYSTEINSDATTER - Birth: Abt 620 in Raumsdal, Telemark, Norway
MARRIED: 700 - ERICSDATTER, Hildi in Raumsdal, Telemark, Norway CHILDREN:
1. SVEIDASSON, Halfdan Mildi - Abt 720 in Oppland, Norway |
BIRTH: Abt 670 in Raumsdal,
KING EYSTEIN'S DEATH
Eystein became king in Raumarike and Westfold. He was married to Hild, a daughter of Eric Agnarsson, who was king in Westfold. Agnar had no son and Eric's father was a son of Sigtryg, king in the Vend district and died while King Halfdan Hvitbein was still alive.
The father and son, Eystein and Halfdan, then took possession of all of Westfold, which Eystein ruled over as long as he lived. At that time Skjold was king in Varna and he was a great warlock. King Eystein took some ships of war to Varna and plundered there. He carried away all the clothes and valuables and the peasants' stock. He killed the cattle for provision and then went off.
King Skjold came with his army and Eystein was at such a distance over the fjord that King Skjold could only see his sails. He took his cloak, waved it, and blew into it. As King Eystein sailed in past Jarls he was sitting at the helm and another ship was sailing at the side of his. Then came a stroke of a wave, and the boom of the other ship struck the king and threw him overboard causing his death. His men fished up his body and carried into Borre where a mound was thrown up over it out towards the sea at Raden, near Vodle.
'King Eystein sat upon the poop
Of his good ship: with sudden swoop
The swinging boom dashed him to hell,
And fathoms deep the hero fell
Beneath the brine.
The fury whirl
Of Loke, Tempest's brother's girl,
Grim Hel, clutched his soul away;
And now where Vodle's ocean bay
Receives the ice-cold stream, the grave
Of Eystein stands -- the good, the brave!'"
(So says Thjodolf)