ABSTRACT
THIS Swedish champion, Arngrim, also fought against the powerful rulers of the most northern part of the world, Egther of the Biarmians and Thengil of the Scricfinns, of whom something was said at the beginning of Bk IV. 1 His aim was that, if he gained conquest over them, then for his deserts and triumphs he might gain as his bed-mate Ofura, the daughter of King Frothi of Denmark, and in the event this was how it proved. Meanwhile, however, realizing he was about to encounter these people of the wild, he raised a strong army to protect himself and set out northwards. Right away he found that he would have to wage a tough war not only with fierce men but against the elements, as will be shown later in Bk XI, about wars fought among the forests.
King Egther King Thengil
Ofura, daughter of the Danish king
