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 CHAPTEE XYI. EPILOGUE. Haarfagr's kindred lasted some three centuries in Norway; Sverrir's lasted into its third century there ; how long after this, among the neighhouring kinships, I did not enquire. Tor, hy regal affinities, consanguinities, and unexpected chances and changes, the three Scandinavian kingdoms fell all peaceahly together under Queen Margaret, of the Calmar Union (a.d. 1397) ; and Norway, incorporated now with Denmark, needed no more kings. The History of these Haarfagrs has awakened in me many thoughts : Of Despotism and Democracy, arhitrary government hy one, and self-government (which means no government, or anarch}^) by all; of Dictatorship with many faults, and Universal Suffrage with little possibility of any virtue. For the contrast between Olaf Tryggveson and a Uni-