King Eyestein "The Fart" HALFDANSSON

Abt 736 - 780  (~ 44 years)

• Name	Eyestein "The Fart" HALFDANSSON
  Prefix	King
  Nickname	The Fart
  Birth	Abt 736	Raumike, Vestfold, Norway
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	GM58-2PV
  Group	KING
  	Designated Royal King
  Name	The Fart
  _UID	112F7E1A14B14EA08A5462150777C7CCF16A
  Death	780
  Person ID	I521	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	4 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	King Halfdan Hvitbeinn O'LÁFSSON, Of The Uplanders,   b. Abt 705, Romerike, Norway d. 745, Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway (Age ~ 40 years)
  Mother	Asa Eysteinsdottir Of UPPLAND,   b. Abt 708, Upland, Norway d. Norway
  Marriage	Bef 730	Europe   [1]
  Family ID	F331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hildi ERIKSDOTTIR,   b. Abt 740, Vestfold, Norway d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. King Halfdan II "Milldi" EYSTEINSSON, Of Vestfold,   b. 750, Holtum, Vestfold, Norway d. 802, Borre, Vestfold, Norway (Age 52 years)   2. King Harold OF HAITHABU,   b. 761   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Geva,   b. Abt 765, Denmark d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F330	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  King of Raumerike and Vestfold † death ·King Skjold of Varna came to the strand with his army, just as Eystein was at such a distance over the fjord that King Skjold could only see his sails. Then he took his cloak, waved it, and blew into it. King Eystein was sitting at the helm as they sailed in past Jarls, and another ship was sailing at the side of his, when there came a stroke of a wave, by which the boom of the other ship struck the king and threw him overboard, which proved his death. event ·given Vestfold to rule over after his father took possession of Eystein's deceased father-in-law's territory burial in Borre, Raden, near Vodle, Vestfold. ·His men fished up his body, and it was carried into Borre, where a mound was thrown up over it, out towards the sea at Raden, near Vodle. So says Thjodolf: -- "King Eystein sat upon the poop Of his good ship: with sudden swoop The swinging boom dashed him to hell, And fathoms deep the hero fell Beneath the brine. The fury whirl Of Loke, Tempest's brother's girl, Grim Hel, clutched his soul away; And now where Vodle's ocean bay Receives the ice-cold stream, the grave Of Eystein stands -- the good, the brave!" event ·went with some ships of war to Varna, the land of King Skjold, and plundered there, and carried away all he could find of clothes or other valuables, and of peasants' stock, and killed cattle on the strand for provision, and then began his return home

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 4 Sep 2024), entry for Asa Eysteinsdottir Of UPPLAND, person ID L812-5Z5. (Reliability: 3).