Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes by Jackson Crawford

Author:Jackson Crawford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2021-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Now Queen Ogn gave birth to a son named Agnar. He was soon big and promising. And when King Helgi learned this, he assembled an army and went to meet Hrók. There was a battle, and it ended with the capture of Hrók.

Now King Helgi said, “You are a thoroughly evil leader, but I will not kill you because it is a greater shame for you to live with such anguishing wounds. Then he had Hrók’s arms and legs broken, and sent him back into his own kingdom, capable of nothing.

And when Agnar, the son of Hróar, turned twelve years old, men said they had never seen such a man, as he was the superior of every man in every kind of undertaking. He became such an important and famous warrior that he is widely remembered in ancient sagas as the greatest champion then or now.

One time Agnar asked where the fjord was where Hrók had thrown the ring overboard. Many had searched for the ring with all kinds of tricks, and no one had found it. And it is said that Agnar arrived at this fjord in his ship and said, “It would be a good idea to look for the ring, if someone had a clear idea where to fish for it.”

{77} Then he was told where it had been cast into the sea. Agnar prepared himself and dived into the depths. When he came back up, he did not have the ring. Then he went down a second time, and again he did not have the ring when he came back up. Now he said, “I’ve been lazy about looking,” and he went down a third time and came back up with the ring. Because of this, he became extraordinarily famous, more so than his father King Hróar. Now Agnar stayed in his kingdom during the winters, and went on Viking raids during the summers, and became a legendary man, and he was considered greater than his father.

For their part, King Helgi and Yrsa loved each other very much and had one son named Hrólf, who later would become a man of great reputation.

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