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 22 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA IX, *' The far-known king the order gave, In silence o'er the swelling wave. With noiseless oars, his vessels gay From Denmark west to row away; And Olaf s son, with justice rare. Offers with him the realm to share. People, no doubt, rejoiced to find The kings had met in peaceful mind." Afterwards the two relatives conversed with each other, and all Avas settled by peaceful agreement. Chapteii King Magnus lay at the shore, and had set up tents King Mag- upou the land. There he invited his relation King HamiThaif Harald to be his guest at table ; and Harald went to of Norway. i}iq entertainment with sixty of his men, and was feasted excellently. Towards the end of the day King Magnus went into the tent where Harald sat, and with him went men carrying parcels consisting of clothes and arms. Then the king went to the man who sat lowest, and gave him a good sword, to the . next a shield, to the next a Idrtle, and so on, — clothes, or weapons, or gold ; to all he gave one or the other valuable gift, and the more costly to the more distin- guished men among them. Then he placed himself before his relation Harald, holding two sticks in his hand, and said, " Which of these two sticks wilt thou have, my friend ? " Harald replies, " The one nearest me." " Then," said King Magnus, "with this stick I give thee half of the Norwegian power, with all the scatt and duties, and all the domains thereunto belonging, with the condition that every where thou shalt be as lawful king in Norway as I am myself ; but when we are both together in one place, I shall be the first man in seat, service, and salutation ; and if there be three of us together of equal dignity, that I shall sit in the middle, and shall have the royal tent-ground, and the royal landing-place. Thou shalt strengthen and ad- vance our kingdom, in return for making thee that