According to Hversu Noregr byggðist and Njáls saga, he was the son of Halfdan the Valiant ( also given as his father in the Ynglinga saga and the Hervarar saga ), son of Harald the Old, son of Valdar, son of Roar ( Hroðgar ) of the house of Skjöldung ( Scylding ).

According to Hversu Noregr byggdist, Sigurd was the son of Randver, the brother of Harald Wartooth.

Hversu Noregr Byggðist says he is the son of Hrœrekr slöngvanbaugi and the brother of Harald Wartooth.

Whereas Hversu and Ynglinga saga don't inform about Halfdan's mother, Hervarar saga provides the information that she was Hild, the daughter of the Gothic king Heiðrekr Ulfhamr, the son of Angantyr who defeated the Huns.

Kári is father of a son who is named Frosti (' frost ') according to the Orkneyinga saga but named Jökul ( jǫkull: ' icicle, ice, glacier ') according to the Hversu.

In the account called Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was inhabited ') in the Flatey Book, Snær is son of Jökul ( Jǫkull ' icicle, ice, glacier ') son of Kári.

Snow's son in Orkneyinga saga and Hversu is Thorri ' frozen-snow '.

According the Hversu, Hörd son of Gard, the eponym of Hördaland ( the modern county of Hordaland ) was father of Jöfur ( Jǫfurr ) or Jösur ( Jǫsurr ).

The Hversu goes on to say that Rúgálf son of Gard, the eponym of Rogaland, was father of Rögnvald ( Rögnvaldr ), the father of Ögvald ( Ǫgvaldr ) but gives no further descendants.

The Hversu notes further that another son of Grjótgard was Sigar ( Sigarr ), father of a daughter Signýjar who married Jarl Harald of Naumu Dale who fathered on her Herlaug, father of Grjótgard, father of Jarl Hákon, father of Jarl Sigurd, father of Jarl Hákon of Hlada.

And while the Höd of the Hversu is said to be father of a son named Höddbrodd, in Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum ( Book 3 ) Høtherus, the slayer of Balderus, is the son of Hothbrodus or Hothbroddus.

The Hversu relates that Höddbrodd son of Höd was the father of Hrólf ( Hrólf ), father of Hrómund Beserk ( Hrómundr beserkr ), father of three children: Hámund ( Hámundr ), Haki, and Gunnlöd ( Gunnlǫðr ).

The Ættartolur ( genealogies attached to the Hversu Noregr byggdist ) call this son of Halfdan by the name Næfil ( Næfill ) and relate that King Næfil was father of Heimar, father of Eynef ( Eynefr ), father of Rakni, father of Gjúki.

Alrek's ancestry is not given in the saga, but according to the Ættartolur ( genealogies ' attached to Hversu Noregr byggdist ), Alrek was the son of Eirík the Eloquent ( Eiríkr inn málspaki ), son of Alrek, son of Eirík, son of Skjöld ( Skǫldr ) son of Skelfir, king of Vörs ( Vǫrs ), modern Voss in northern Hordaland.

In Hversu Noregr byggdist, Höddbrodd ( Hǫdbroddr ) was the son of a Höd.

Raum the Old ( Old Norse: Raumr inn gamli ) is a legendary king in Norway in the Hversu Noregr byggdist and in Thorsteins saga Víkingssonar.

According to the Hversu, Finnalf inherited the land of East Dale ( Eystri-Dal, probably the modern Dal ) and all the land north of Lake Vænir ( modern Lake Vänern ) from the Gaut Elf river ( the modern Göta älv river ) north to the Raum Elf river ( the modern Glomma river ), and that the land was then called Álfheim.

In the Hversu Noregr byggdist and in Thorsteins saga Víkingssonar, the name is attributed to the mythical king Raum the Old.

Hversu is more modest and only states that a descendant of Fornjót " ruled over Gothland, Kvenland ( Kænlandi ), and Finland ".

The Hversu account says further that Ægir ruled over the seas, Logi over fire, and Kári over wind.

The Hversu then comments cryptically that after him the three Haddings ( Haddingjar ) took power, that they ruled one after the other, and that Helgi Hadding-prince ( Haddingjaskati ) was one of them.

The Hversu account probably indicates a version in which both Helgi and the two Haddingjar proper ( probably here the sons of Högni the Red ) were all three called Haddingjar and ruled in rotation.

The Yngling " Fairhair dynasty " lineage introduced in Hversu Noregr byggðist (" How Norway was settled ") and the Orkneyinga and Heimskringla sagas suggests a line of Rollo going back to Fornjót, the primeval " king " who " reigned over " Finland and Kvenland.

Gard Agdi ( Old Norse Garðr Agði ) appears in the legendary genealogies of Hversu Noregr byggdist as one of the three sons of Nór, the legendary first king of Norway, and as ruler and ancestor of rulers over southwestern Norway.

The Ættartolur, the genealogies appended to the Hversu Noregr byggdist in the Flatey Book introduce Halfdan the Old as the ruler of Ringiríki ( a territory including modern Ringerike and Valdres in Oppland ).

The genealogical work Hversu Noregr byggdist gives his father as Harald the Old, his grandfather as Valdar and his great-grandfather as Hróarr ( i. e. the Hroðgar of Beowulf ).

* Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was inhabited '), Appendix A in The Orkneyingers Saga ( Icelandic Sagas, and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen on the British Isles, Volume III ): Translator George W. Dasent ( 1894 ).

The Hversu then relates that Thórolf was father of Helgi, the father of Bersi, the father of Thormód ( Þormóðr ), the father of Thórlaug ( Þórlaugr ) who was the mother of Tungu-Odd ( Tungu-Oddr ).

This premonition of the coming darkness in association with Macbeth's murders is repeated just before Banquo is killed: " it will be rain to-night ", Banquo tells his son Fleance.

Herodotus tells us that c. 482 BC Xerxes I ( the son of Darius ) had two pontoon bridges built across the width of the Hellespont at Abydos in order that his huge army could cross from Persia into Greece.

Loki tells Njörðr to maintain his moderation, and that he won't keep it secret any longer that Njörðr fathered this son with his sister ( unnamed ), although one would expect him to be worse than he turned out.

Loki tells Tyr to be silent a second time, and states that Tyr's wife ( otherwise unattested ) had a son by Loki, and that Tyr never received any compensation for this " injury ," further calling him a " wretch.

The prose introduction to Reginsmál details that, while the hero Sigurd was being fostered by Regin, son of Hreidmar, Regin tells him that once the gods Odin, Hœnir, and Loki went to Andvara-falls, which contained many fish.

Loki tells Njörðr to " stop " and " keep some moderation ," and that he " won't keep it a secret any longer " that Njörðr's son Freyr was produced with his unnamed sister, " though you'd expect him to be worse than he is.

Kawate Andare tells the tale of a witty court jester and his interactions with the royal court and his son.

In stanzas 54 and 55 of the poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that his son Víðarr will avenge Odin's death at Ragnarök by stabbing Fenrir in the heart.

In short story, The Basement Room ( 1935 ), by Graham Greene, the ( sympathetic ) servant character, Baines, tells the admiring boy, son of his employer, of his African British colony service, " You wouldn't believe it now, but I've had forty niggers under me, doing what I told them to ".

It tells the story of the Morgans, a respectable mining family of the South Wales Valleys, through the eyes of the youngest son, Huw Morgan.

A Goliath makes another appearance in 2 Samuel 21: 19, which tells how Goliath the Gittite was killed by “ Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite .” The fourth-century B. C.

Iolanthe tells her sisters that she has a son, a half-fairy, half-human named Strephon (" He's a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are mortal ").

* Helena, mother of Constantine I, tells him that he must atone for executing his son and wife by building churches.

In the eschatological myth which closes the Republic he tells the story how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world.

It tells of a chance meeting between Gandalf and Thorin Oakenshield, Thráin's son, in the inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree.

Another story ( told often to tourists ) tells of a wealthy merchant who, during a visit to the city with his family, had his beloved young son go missing.

Before parting, Luke tells him that Obi-Wan was like a father to him, to which Obi-Wan replies that he loved Luke like a son.

The play tells the story of Thyestes, son of Pelops, King of Pisa, who, along with his brother Atreus, was exiled by Pelops for the murder of their half-brother, Chrysippus.

" Upon the Mother depend the winds, the ocean, the whole earth beneath the snowy seat of Olympus ; whenever she leaves the mountains and climbs to the great vault of heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronus, makes way, and all the other immortal gods likewise make way for the dread goddess ," the seer Mopsus tells Jason in Argonautica ; Jason climbed to the sanctuary high on Mount Dindymon to offer sacrifice and libations to placate the goddess, so that the Argonauts might continue on their way.

The movie stars Wallace Beery ( Andy " Champ " Purcell ) and Jackie Cooper ( Dink ), and tells the story of a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life together for the sake of his young son.

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