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 without opposition. Then Hakon proceeded along the coast of Scania, pillaging every where, levying taxes and ransoms from the country, and killing all vikings, both Danish and Yendish. He then went eastwards to the island of Gotland, marauded there, and took great ransom from the country. So says Guttorm Sindre:—

King Hakon returned back in autumn with his army and an immense booty; and remained all the winter in Yiken to defend it against the Danes and Gotlanders, if they should attack it.

In the same winter King Tryggve Olafsson returned from a viking cruise in the West sea, having before ravaged in Scotland and Ireland. In spring King Hakon went north, and set his brother's son, King Tryggve, over Viken to defend that country against, enemies. He gave him also in property all that he could reconquer of the country in Denmark, which the summer before King Hakon had subjected to payment of scatt to him. So says Guttorm: — King Hakon, whose sharp sword dyes red The bright steel cap on many a head, Has set a warrior brave and stout The foreign foeman to keep out,—