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 II. HALFDAN THE BLACK'S SAGA.

Halfdan was a year old when his father was killed, and his mother Aasa set off immediately with him westwards to Agder, and set herself there in the kingdom which her father Harald had possessed. Halfdan grew up there, and soon became stout and strong; and, by reason of his black hair, was called Halfdan the Black. When he was eighteen years old he took his kingdom in Agder, and went immediately to Westfold, where he divided that kingdom, as before related, with his brother Olaf. The same autumn he went with an army to Vingulmark against King Gandalf. They had many battles, and sometimes one, sometimes the other gained the victory; but at last they agreed that Halfdan should have half of Vingulmark, as his father Gudrocl had had it before. Then King Halfdan proceeded to Baumarige, and subdued it. King Sigtryg, son of King Eystein, who then had his residence in Hedemark, and who had