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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 357 some time, and there was peace in the land. The sa ga v h, winter after it he passed in the south parts of the country. Einar Tambarskelver and Kalf Arneson had this Chapter winter meetings and consultations between themselves 0f the in the merchant town. * Then there came a messenger counsels of from King Canute to Kalf Arneson, with a message barskeiver to send him three dozen axes, which must he chosen Arneson. and good. Kalf replies, " I will send no axes to King Canute. Tell him I will bring his son Swend so many, that he shall not think he is in want of any." Early in spring Einar Tambarskelver and Kalf Ar- Chapter neson made themselves ready for a journey, with a of Einar' great retinue of the best and most select men that JXer r and could be found in the Drontheim country. They went Kalf Ame- in spring eastward over the ridge of the country n ° y out of to Jemteland, from thence to Helsingialand, and came thecouutr y- to Sweden, where they procured ships, with which in summer they proceeded east to Russia, and came in autumn to Ladoga. They sent men up to Novogorod to King Jarisleif, with the errand that they offered Magnus, the son of King Olaf the Saint, to take him with them, follow him to Norway, and give him assist- ance to attain his father's heritage and be made king over the country. When this message came to King Jarisleif he held a consultation with the queen and some chiefs, and they all resolved unanimously to send a message to the Northmen, and ask them to come to King Jarisleif and Magnus ; for which journey safe conduct was given them. When they came to Novo- gorod it was settled among them that the Northmen who had come there should become Magnus's men, and be his subjects ; and to this Kalf and the other men who had been against King Olaf at Stiklestad town. AA 3
 * Nidaros, or Drontheim, is usually called merely the merchant