Page:The Heimskringla; or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway Vol 2.djvu/385

 KINGS OF NORWAY. 377 of Denmark and England. He ruled these kingdoms saga vm. two years, and then died of sickness in England*, leaving no children. He was buried at Winchester beside his father. After his death Edward the Good, a son of the English king Ethelred, and Emma a daughter of Richard earl of Rouen, was chosen king in England. King Edward the Good was, on his mother's side, a brother of Harald and Hardacanute, the sons of Canute the Great ; and the daughter of Canute and Queen Emma was Gunhild, who was married to the Emperor Henry of Germany, who was called Henry the Mild. Gunhild was three years in Germany when she fell sick, and she died five years after the death of her father King Canute the Great. When King Magnus Olafsson heard of Harda- Chapter . . XIX. Canute's death, he immediately sent people south to ofKing Denmark, with a message to the men who had bound q^™* themselves by oath to the peace and agreement which was made between King Magnus and Hardacanute, and reminded them of their pledge. He added, as a conclusion, that in summer he would come with his army to Denmark to take possession of his Danish dominions, in terms of the agreement, or to fall in the field with his army. So says Amor, the earl's scald : — "Wise were the words, exceeding wise, Of him who stills the hungriest cries Of beasts of prey — the earls' lord ; And soon fulfilled will be his word : Or fall upon a bloody plain; And rather than give up his cause, Will leave his corpse to ravens' claws.' Thereafter King Magnus gathered together a great Chapter army, and summoned to him all lendermen and Kino . ' powerful bonders, and collected war-ships. When Mage's 1, , , . , -. .. armament. the army was assembled it was very handsome, and
 * With his good sword hell Denmark gain,
 * In 1041, according to the Saxon Chronicle.