Chronica Regum Manniae Et Insularum; The Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... of Argyll, but had been deprived of it in 1221 by King Alexander as a punishment for having taken the part of Gillescop Mac William, the last of this long line of pretenders. This, however, does not seem to have increased his fidelity to the Norwegian crown; indeed the politics of these Somerledian descendants was to form a balance between Scotland and Norway, always keeping on the side which promised to be the most advantageous to them. Therefore it may have been a wise forethought of King Hacon, to have them supplanted, or at least controlled by a man, on whose fidelity he could rely, and such a man was Uspak, the veteran royal warrior, whom he now promoted to the rank of King, moreover giving him his own name, which sounded more royally than Uspak 1. The Saga of King Hacon (Ch. 165) relates, that this promotion took place at a „thing" or public meeting, which the King held in the City of Oslo in the spring of 1230, and where he proclaimed, that in the impending summer he would send him to the Sudreys with a sufficient force. According to our Chronicle, the expedition took place in the years 1229=30; the Saga, however, the correctness of whose chronology is beyond all doubt, places it in 1230--1231, and this is moreover confirmed by the Chronicle of Lanercost, and the Icelandic annals, which assign the arrival of Uspak-Hacon to the year 1230. The events of this expedition are related at large in the Saga, while the narrative of our Chronicle is very deficient. From Oslo, we learn, Hacon repaired to Bergen, in order to prepare the armament. The King furnished 8 ships, the Earl 3, the commander of one of these he named Paul Balkason, a certain sign that this chieftain had sought the friendship of the Earl more than that of the King. The commanders n...