parts. 254 CHRONICLE OF THE SA GA X IV. called King's mate; and their children were Inge, Nicolas, Philip of Hendsla, and Margaret, who was first married to Biorn Buk, and afterwards to Simun Kaaresson. ^xvTi "^ Orm Kyrping, and Kagnhild a daughter of Sweinke Journey of Stcinarsson, had a son called Erling. Orm Kyrping skakkeand was a son of Swend Swendsson, who was a son of Eariiiogn- £plino; of Gcrdc. Orm's mother was Rap'nhild, a vald to O . foreign daughter of Earl Hakon the Great. Erling was a man of understanding, and a great friend of King Inge, by whose assistance and counsel Erling obtained in marriage Christina, a daughter of King Sigurd the Crusader and Queen Malmfrid. Erling possessed a farm at Staudla in South Hordaland. Erling left the country ; and with him went Endrid Unge and several lendermen, who had chosen men with them. They intended to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and went across the West sea to Orkney. There Earl Rognvald and Bishop Wilham joined them ; and they had in all fifteen ships from Orkney, with which they first sailed to the South Hebud^, from thence west to Valland, and then the same way King Sigurd the Crusader had sailed to Norvasund*; and they plun- dered all round in the heathen part of Spain. Soon after they had sailed through the Norvasund, Endric Unge and his followers, with six ships, separated from them ; and then each was for himself. Earl Rognvald and Erling Skakke fell in with a large ship of burden at sea called a dromundf, and gave battle to it with nine ships. At last they laid their cutters close under the dromund ; but the heathens threw both weapons
- The Straits of Gibraltar.
t Dromund was the name of a large class of merchant vessels in the Mediterranean in the middle ages. The dromund appears to have been a ship with three masts. The name is derived from the Greek, and is of the same root as Hippodromos, and refers to its swiftness, or its long course — dromos. Vide Spelman, Glos.
