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    Default Halfdan the Black Saga

    Of this saga there are other versions found in "Fagrskinna" and in "Flateyjarbok".
    The "Flateyjarbok" version is to a great extent a copy of Snorre. The story about
    Halfdan's dream is found both in "Fagrskinna" and in "Flateyjarbok". The probability
    is that both Snorre and the author of "Fagrskinna" must have transcribed the same
    original text. -- Ed.

    1. HALFDAN FIGHTS WITH GANDALF AND SIGTRYG.
    Halfdan was a year old when his father was killed, and his mother
    Asa set off immediately with him westwards to Agder, and set
    herself there in the kingdom which her father Harald had
    possessed. Halfdan grew up there, and soon became stout and
    strong; and, by reason of his black hair, was called Halfdan the
    Black. When he was eighteen years old he took his kingdom in
    Agder, and went immediately to Vestfold, where he divided that
    kingdom, as before related, with his brother Olaf. The same
    autumn he went with an army to Vingulmark against King Gandalf.
    They had many battles, and sometimes one, sometimes the other
    gained the victory; but at last they agreed that Halfdan should
    have half of Vingulmark, as his father Gudrod had had it before.
    Then King Halfdan proceeded to Raumarike, and subdued it. King
    Sigtryg, son of King Eystein, who then had his residence in
    Hedemark, and who had subdued Raumarike before, having heard of
    this, came out with his army against King Halfdan, and there was
    great battle, in which King Halfdan was victorious; and just as
    King Sigtryg and his troops were turning about to fly, an arrow
    struck him under the left arm, and he fell dead. Halfdan then
    laid the whole of Raumarike under his power. King Eystein's
    second son, King Sigtryg's brother, was also called Eystein, and
    was then king in Hedemark. As soon as Halfdan had returned to
    Vestfold, King Eystein went out with his army to Raumarike, and
    laid the whole country in subjection to him.
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