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 CHAPTER YIII. JARLS ERIC AND SVEIN. Jarl Eric, splendent with this victory, not to speak of that over the Jomsburgers with his father long ago, was now made Governor of Norway: Governor or quasi-sovereign, with his brother, Jarl Svein, as part- ner, who, however, took but little hand in governing; — and, under the patronage of Svein Double-Beard and the then Swedish king (Olaf his name, Sigrid the Proud, his mother's), administered it, they say, with skill and prudence for above fourteen years. Trygg- veson's death is understood and laboriously computed to have happened in the year 1000 ; but there is no exact chronology in these things, but a continual uncertain guessing after such ; so that one eye in History as regards them is as if put out; — neither indeed have I yet had the luck to find any decipher- able and intelligible map of ^Norway : so that the