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48 A History of Sweden
viking expeditions, he sat, fierce to behold, on his fa-
ther’s grave mound, that all passers-by might see that
he demanded his inheritance. At last he appeared be-
fore all the men assembled at the ting in Uppsala*
and asked them to help him secure his inheritance.
They answered in the same way as his uncle had done.
Then he became defiant and insolent and so irritated
the men that they drove him from the assembly.
When King Eric saw that his nephew would give
him no peace, he decided to send him out on a viking
expedition to tame him down. So he furnished him
with a well equipped viking fleet. With it he sailed
"Eastway" and won such fame through his victories
that he was finally made chief of the Jomsvikings. Now
he would carry out the great plans he had long brood-
ed over; he would make himself king of all Sweden.
So he sailed with his fleet into Lake Malar and landed
at Old Uppsala, which then lay on the coast, as the
lake then extended farther inland than it does now. He
burned all his ships so that his men would have no
hope of saving themselves by flight. He declared that
he would never again leave Sweden ; he would now con-
quer or die.
King Eric had in the meantime called out a large
army and assembled it on the Fyris plain near Upp-
sala. And there a great battle was fought. It is said
that the king had coupled together a large number of
horses and bulls with yokes to which were fastened
long swords and spears. These animals crazed with
the din of battle were driven against the enemy and
wrought great slaughter.
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