98 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA IX. Chapter CIH. Of Olaf Haralds- son's expe- dition to Norway. and Queen Rikize. Margaret the daughter of Duke Canute Lavard married Stig Huitaleder; and their children were Nicolas and Christina, who was married to King Karl Swerkersson ; and their son was King Swerker, who was father of King John. King Karl's mother was Queen Ulf hild, a daughter of Hakon the son of Finn, who was a son of Harek of Thiotto. Ulfhild was first married to the Danish king Nicolas, and afterwards to King Inge Hallsteinsson of Sweden. Lastly, she was married to Swerker, a son of Karl and Queen Rikize, who afterwards married Eric son of Canute, who was king of Sweden. Olaf, the son of King Harald Sigurdsson, sailed mth his fleet from England from Hrafnseyre"^, and came in autumn to the Orkney Isles, where the event had happened that Maria, a daughter of Harald Sigurds- son, died a sudden death the very day and hour her father King Harald fell. Olaf remained there all mnter; but the summer after he proceeded east to Norway, where he was proclaimed king along with his brother Magnus. Queen Ellisof came from the West, along with her stepson Olaf and her daughter Ingigerd. There came also with Olaf over the West sea Skule, a son of Earl Toste, and who since has been called the king's foster-son, and his brother Ketil Krok. Both were gallant men, of high family in England, and both were very intelligent ; and the brothers were much beloved by King Olaf. Ketil Krok went north to Halogaland, where King Olaf procured him a good marriage, and from him are descended many great people. f Skule, the king's foster- son, was a very clever man, and the handsomest man that could be seen.
- Hrafnseyri. A town in Holderness_, at the mouth of the Humber,
was called RavenserC;, but is now lost. See Camden_, Brit. p. 9^0. •j" Singular enough that the male line of the great Earl Godwin^ and of his son King Harald, should be to seek among the peasantry of the north of Norway.
