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Norse Sagas · Frederick York, 1905
1. 1. WE begin the story or record of the holy bishop John in the days when Harold Sigurd’s son was ruling Norway, and there were passed from the fall of king Olaf the Saint two-and-twenty winters. In that time was the holy bishop John born in a homestead in Fleet’s-lithe that is called Broad-bowster. His father was named Og-mund. The father of Og-mund was named Thor-kel, and was the son of As-gar Cneif. The mother of bishop John was named Thor-gerd. She was the daughter of Egil the son of Hall o’ Side, who was the man who had the fortune to be the first of the chiefs of the East-frith-men’s Quarter to take baptism and the true faith. Thor-gerd’s mother was named Thor-laug. [She was] the daughter of Thor-wald o’ Ridge. 2. The holy bishop John grew up at home with his father and mother at Broad-bowster until he was five winters old, and then there came about great tidings and ones which …
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