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 Lodver, Arnvid, Liod, and Skule, the sons of Thorfin Hausakliffer.

Earl Hakon now brought all the country under him, and remained all winter in Drontheim. Einar Skalaglam speaks of his conquests in Vellekla:—

As Hakon the earl proceeded this summer along the coast subjecting all the people to him, he ordered that over all his dominions the temples and sacrifices should be restored, and continued as of old. So it is said in the Vellekla:—

The first winter that Hakon ruled over Norway the herrings set in every where through the fiords to the land, and the seasons ripened to a good crop all that had been sown. The people, therefore, laid in seed