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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 301 went to sea when he was ready; but only came to sa ga v u. Norway after the events were ended which took place there during that summer. The chiefs in Norway had their spies east in Swe- Chapter den, and south in Denmark, to find out if King Olaf of tie had come from Russia. As soon as these men could ^ f o p r e ^ le get across the country, they heard the news that King Olaf was arrived in Sweden ; and as soon as full certainty of this was obtained, the war message-token went round the land. The whole people were called out to a levy, and a great army was collected. The lendermen who were from Agder, Rogaland, and Hordaland, divided themselves, so that some went towards the north, and some towards the east; for they thought they required people on both sides. Erling's sons from Jederen went eastward, with all the men who lived east of them, and over whom they were chiefs ; Aslak of Finno, and Erlend of Garde, with the lendermen north of them, went towards the north. All those now named had sworn an oath to King Canute to deprive Olaf of life, if opportunity should offer. Now when it was reported in Norway that King Chapter Olaf was come from the East to Sweden, his friends of Haraid gathered together to give him aid. The most distin- fjf," 1 't s ~ O o <—> son s pro- guished man in this flock was Haraid Sigurdsson, a ceedings. brother* of King Olaf, who then was fifteen years of age, very stout, and manly of growth as if he were full-grown. Many other brave men were there also; and there were in all 600 men when they proceeded from the Uplands, and went eastward with their force through Eida forest to Vsermeland. From thence they went eastward through the forests to Sweden, and made inquiry about King Olaf 's proceedings. Olaf 's mother. He must have been more than fifteen years of age, being described as a boy of four or five years old on King Olaf s visit to his mother.
 * His step-brother — a son of Sigurd Syr, and of Astrid, King