Note 75 — II. THE DISCREPANCIES OF THE FLATEY BOOK
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If the statement of the Flóamanna Saga can be relied on, Eric as a young man, already grown up, was with Haakon Jarl in Norway at the time when the latter ‘took the kingdom’, i.e. immediately after Harald Greyfell’s death (c. 970). The passage refers to Eric as an ‘Icelander’, but must almost necessarily relate to the period before Eric’s emigration from Norway.