And such good luck followed their path, that wherever they stopped in the lands, there were bountiful crops and good peace; and all believed that they w^ere the cause thereof. The mighty men of the kingdom saw that they were unlike other men whom they had seen, both in respect to beauty and understanding. The land there seemed good to Odin, and he chose there for himself a place for a burg, w^hich is now called Sigtuna.[1] He there established chiefs, like unto what had formerly existed in Troy; he appointed twelve men m the burg to be judges of the lay of the land, and made all rights to correspond with what had before been in Troy, and to what the Turks had been accustomed.
13. Thereupon he fared north until he reached the sea, which they thought surrounded all lands, and there he established his son in the kingdom, which is now called Norway; he is hight Saming, and the kings of Norway count their ancestors back to him, and so do the jarls and other mighty men, as it is stated in the Haleygjatal.[2] But Odin had with him that son who is called Yngve, who was king in Sweden, and from him is descended the families called Ynglings (Yngvelings). The asas took to themselves wives there within the land. But some took
