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From: Anders Berg <>
Subject: Re: The Principal work of the Vikings
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 13:25:00 +0100


At 23.20 1996-10-29 GMT, you wrote:
>I will mention the Viking Olvir Barnakarl, son of Einar, son of Snjall,=20
>son of Vatnar, son of Vikar.
>Olvir had the nickname Barnakarl - Baby Guy. The story says that
>the Vikings (the real, 'vocational', Vikings - pirates and
>robbers) used to throw babies up into the air and catch them at
>spearpoint as the fell down again. Olvir, however, must have had
>some soft point deep down inside his bloodthirsty heart, because
>he refused to take part in this game. And so the other Vikings
>called him Barnakarl - Baby Guy.
>It is further said that Olvir was father of Einar, father of
>Olav, father of Gudbrand Kula, father of Esta who married Sigurd
>Syr and became the mother of the Norwegian king Harald Sigurdsson
>'Hardrule'

K=E5re,
I'm sure the baby-throwing story is just as historical
as Harald Sigurdsson's descent from the saga-King Vatnar Vikarsson!

Perhaps it's time for a new newsgroup, soc.genealogy.mythology or
something like that?

Cheers,

Anders


http://www.algonet.se/~anderz

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