One of his brothers he had killed in battle before his old father's life ended; this brother was Bjorn, a peaceable, improving, trading economic Under-king, whom the others mockingly called "Bjorn the Chapman." The great-grandson of this Bjorn became extremely distinguished by and by as _Saint_ Olaf.

Head-King Eric seems to have had a violent wife, too.

She was thought to have poisoned one of her other brothers-in-law.

Eric Blood-axe had by no means a gentle life of it in this world, trained to sea-robbery on the coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland and France, since his twelfth year.
Old King Fairhair, at the age of seventy, had another son, to whom was given the name of Hakon.

His mother was a slave in Fairhair's house; slave by ill-luck of war, though nobly enough born.