Jomsborg och jomsvikingasagan

[hangatyr]

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Till saken hör att fiendernas hövding under halshuggningen står och hånar de besegrade, i synnerhet den hårfagre eftersom han svurit att dräpa hövdingen och äkta hans dotter. Han håller ord.....

Jo det verkar vara hederliga rekorderliga grabbar dom där jomsvikingarna!!!! Undrar om inte den här episoden finns i någon saga också? Eller så är det från röde orm jag kommer ihåg den!

/B

Samma story finns i boken "männen från naess", flera andra anekdoter som återfinns i Röde orm finns i den boken.

[WilmerT]

Hrm.
Man kan varmt rekommendera Snorri Sturluson; Heimskringla, Olav Tryggvasons saga, kap 34ff.
I kapitel 41 saxar jag följande från http://www.snerpa.is/net/snorri/ol-tr.htm:

Þá kom að Eiríkur jarl og spurði: "Hver er þessi maður hinn fríði?"

"Sigurð kalla mig," segir hann, "og em eg kenningarsonur Búa. Eigi eru enn allir Jómsvíkingar dauðir."

Erik jarl frågar: Vem är den vackre mannen? [den hårfagre, som genom att dra tillbaka huvudet när Thorkel fäller yxan lyckas klara nacken och orsakar att mannen som höll håret för båda armarna kapade]
"Sigurd kallar man mig och jag påstås var Bues son; ännu är icke alla jomsvikingar döda."

* Om jag inte var så ogin (läs tidsfattig) skulle jag berätta mer om mina hågkomster om persongallerierna.
- Intressant är dock att Bue den digre är från Borgundarholm, som min översättare Prof. Emil Olsson vid förra seklets början kallar Borgholm på Öland, men Medieval... (nedan) kallar Bornholm.
(Detta kanske mest för min hypotes kring Ubsola/Birka lokaliserat till Öland/Köpingsvik)

Nåja... gammalnorsk är väl intressant för källreferenser; engelsk online-version från Online Medieval and Classical Library ger istället:

46. VIKINGS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE CHAIN.

Earl Eirik then laid himself alongside of Vagn's ship, and there
was a brave defence; but at last this ship too was cleared, and
Vagn and thirty men were taken prisoners, and bound, and brought
to land. Then came up Thorkel Leira, and said, "Thou madest a
solemn vow, Vagn, to kill me, but now it seems more likely that I
will kill thee." Vagn and his men sat all upon a log of wood
together. Thorkel had an axe in his hands, with which he cut
at him who sat outmost on the log. Vagn and the other prisoners
were bound so that a rope was fastened on their feet, but they
had their hands free. One of them said, "I will stick this
cloak-pin that I have in my hand into the earth, if it be so that
I know anything, after my head is cut off." His head was cut
off, but the cloak-pin fell from his hand. There sat also a very
handsome man with long hair, who twisted his hair over his head,
put out his neck, and said, "Don't make my hair bloody." A man
took the hair in his hands and held it fast. Thorkel hewed with
his axe; but the viking twitched his head so strongly that he who
was holding his hair fell forwards, and the axe cut off both his
hands, and stuck fast in the earth. Then Earl Eirik came up, and
asked, "Who is that handsome man?"

He replies, "I am called Sigurd, and am Bue's son. But are all
the Jomsborg vikings dead?"

Eirik says, "Thou art certainly Boe's son. Wilt thou now take
life and peace?"

"That depends," says he, "upon who it is that offers it."

"He offers who has the power to do it -- Earl Eirik."

"That will I," says he, "from his hands." And now the rope was
loosened from him.

Then said Thorkel Leira, "Although thou should give all these men
life and peace, earl, Vagn Akason shall never come from this with
life." And he ran at him with uplifted axe; but the viking
Skarde swung himself in the rope, and let himself fall just
before Thorkel's feet, so that Thorkel œell over him, and Vagn
caught the axe and gave Thorkel a death-wound. Then said the
earl, "Vagn, wilt thou accept life?"

"That I will," says he, "if you give it to all of us."

"Loose them from the rope," said the earl, and it was done.
Eighteen were killed, and twelve got their lives.

/Wilmer T
... här skiner solen...

[WilmerT]

Av ytterligare intresse kan väl var följande:
http://58.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WO/WOLLIN.htm
som beskriver ön Wollin vid Oders mynning och lite kortfattat om Jomsvikingarnas befästa ö, kallad Jomsburg (Jumne hos Adam av Bremen)

/Wilmer T
... här skiner solen...

[Gudbjorn]

Det er mest i romaner man finner dem. Røverbande, og problemet var at de ranet også sine naboer.
Jomsborg ble jevnet med jorden av Magnus Barfot rundt år 1100, fordi de hadde vært på "viking" i viken....

[Joms]

Var det något större fel på min tråd om Jomvikingarna?

[Ny Björn]

-Förutom att det här är en äldre tråd på liknande ämne som du kanske borde ha fortsatt posta i istället för att starta en ny tråd?
-Nej, inte vad jag kunnat se...



/N B

[Joms]

Oops. Då ber jag om ursäkt