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 104 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA IX. King Olaf has both power and right, And the Saint's favour in the fight. The Saint will ne'er his kin forsake. And let Swend Ulfsson Norway take." And by the intervention of good men a meeting was agreed upon between the kings, and that it should be at Konghelle. At this meeting friendship was concluded between the kings, and peace between the countries. The agreement was confirmed by Olaf taking in marriage Ingerid, King Swend' s daughter ; and this peace endured long, and Olaf reigned in quietness unknown before in Norway. King Magnus fell ill, and died of the ring-worm* disease, after being ill for some time. He died and was buried at Nidaros. He was an amiable king, and bewailed by the people. scarcely be the ring-worm of modern pathology, but some kind of scab, scurvy, or leprosy.
 * The disease of which King Magnus died — reforma-sot — could