Eysteinn Halfdansson, King In Vestfold^[1]

Abt 736 -

• Name	Eysteinn Halfdansson
  Suffix	King In Vestfold
  Nickname	Fret
  Birth	Abt 736	, Vestfold, Norway
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I36266	Master
  Last Modified	9 Jul 2019

  
  

  Father	Halfdan Huitbein
  Family ID	F8843	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hildi Eiriksdatter,   b. Abt 740, , Vestfold, Norway
  Marriage	Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. King In Vestfold Halfdan Eysteinsson,   b. Abt 768, Holtum, Vestfold, Norway d. Borre, Vestfold, Norway
  Family ID	F8676	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2019

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 736 - , Vestfold, Norway  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Eystein Halfdansson (Old Norse: Eysteinn Hálfdansson) was the son of Halfdan Hvitbeinn of the House of Yngling according to Norse tradition. He inherited the throne of Romerike. Ari Thorgilsson in his Íslendingabók calls him Eystein the Fart (Old norse: Eystein fret, (or Eystein Meinfretr, meaning foul-fart)),[1] without comment, in his king list, just naming his father and his son. Snorri does not call him by this nickname, but does give us a colorful story of his life. His wife was Hild, the daughter of the king of Vestfold, Erik Agnarsson. Erik had no son, so Eystein obtained Vestfold as his wife's inheritance. According to Ynglingasaga, Eystein died on a viking raid to Varna, on the eastern side of the Oslofjord. Eystein's men had finished looting and pillaging the area and were already almost across the fjord, when King Skjöld of Varna, a great warlock, arrived at the beach and saw the sails of Eystein's ships. He waved his cloak and blew into it which caused a boom of one ship to swing and hit Eystein so that he fell overboard and drowned. His body was salvaged and buried in a mound at Borre. Eystein was succeeded by his son Halfdan the Mild.

  
  

• Sources

  [S23] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).