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Cormac's Fore-Elders.
Harald Fairhair was king of Norway when this tale begins.

There was a chief in the kingdom in those days and his name was Cormac; one of the Vik-folk by kindred, a great man of high birth.

He was the mightiest of champions, and had been with King Harald in many battles.
He had a son called Ogmund, a very hopeful lad; big and sturdy even as a child; who when he was grown of age and come to his full strength, took to sea-roving in summer and served in the king's household in winter.

So he earned for himself a good name and great riches.
One summer he went roving about the British Isles and there he fell in with a man named Asmund Ashenside, who also was a great champion and had worsted many vikings and men of war.