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 REIGN OF OLAF TRYGGVESON. 79 "This insolent Tryggveson," Queen Sigrid would often say, and had long been saying, to her Svein, " to marry thy sister without leave had or asked of thee ; and now flaunting forth his war navies, as if he, king only of paltry Norway, were the big hero of the North ! Why do you suffer it, you kings really great ?" By such persuasions and reiterations, King Svein of Denmark, King Olaf of Sweden, and Jarl Eric, now a great man there, grown rich by prosperous sea robbery and other good management, were brought to take the matter up, and combine strenuously for destruction of King Olaf Tryggveson on this grand "Wendland expedition of his. Fleets and forces were with best diligence got ready ; and, withal, a certain Jarl Sigwald, of Jomsburg, chieftain of the Joms- vikings, a powerful, plausible, and cunning man, was appointed to find means of joining himself to Trygg- veson's grand voyage, of getting into Tryggveson*s confidence, and keeping Svein Double-Beard, Eric, and the Swedish King aware of all his movements. King Olaf Tryggveson, unacquainted with all this, sailed away in summer, with his splendid fleet ; went through the Belts with prosperous winds, under bright