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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 383 mained all summer, and sent spies out to Denmark, saga viil to inquire about the king's proceedings and the number of his men. Now when Swend heard that King Magnus had let a great part of his army go away, and also that he was south in Jutland, he rode from Sweden Avith a great body of people which the Swedish king had given him. When Swend came to Scania the people of that country received him Avell, treated him as their king, and men joined him in croAvds. He then went on to Sealand, Avhere he Avas also Avell received, and the Avhole country joined him. He then went to Fyen, and laid all the islands under his poAver ; and as the people also joined him, he collected a great army, and many ships of Avar. Kins: Magnus married his sister Ulf hild, Olaf 's dauffh- ter, to Otto duke of Saxony. They had a son Avho was called Magnus, from Avhom a great family has descended. The dukes who rule over BrunsAvig reckon their descent from King Olaf the Saint. King Magnus heard this neAvs, and at the same Chapter XXVJI time that the people of Yendland had a large force on of King ' foot. He summoned people therefore to come to him, ^§a" ss and dreAV together a great army in Jutland. Otto force, also, the duke of Brunswig, who had married Ulf hild, King Olaf the Saint's daughter, and the sister of King Magnus, came to him with a great troop. The Danish chiefs pressed King Magnus to advance against the Vendland army, and not to alloAV pagans to march over and lay Avaste the country ; so it Avas resolved that the king Avith his army should proceed south to Heidaby.* While King Magnus lay at Skotburg river, on Leyrskog's Heath, he got intelligence con- cerning the Yendland army, and that it Avas so nu- merous it could not be counted; Avhereas King Mag- this ancient town site from the present town of Sleswig.
 * Now Haddeby, at the town of Sleswig. The river Slie divides