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 384 CHRONICLE OF THE NOTES. 853. Is the year of Harald Haarfager's birth. 863. Harald succeeded to his father Halfdan the Black. 864. One Grardar went to Iceland, which had been disco- vered in 861 by Nadodd. 867. Flakke went to Iceland. 875. Ingulf went as a colonist to occupy Iceland. 885. The battle in Hafursfiord, by which Harald Haarfager became supreme king of Norway. 895. Harald Haarfager's expedition to Orkney. The ba- nishment of Rolf Ganger from Norway is placed in this year. 898. Eric Bloodyaxe was born. 923. Hakon, called afterwards Athelstan's foster-son, born. 931. Hakon sent to England. 936. Death of Harald Haarfager. 937. Hakon, Athelstan's foster-son, king. 941. Athelstan king of England died. 963. Hakon, Athelstan's foster-son, killed in the battle at Stord. 968. The Emperor Otto's first expedition to Denmark. 969. Olaf Tryggvesson born. 970. Earl Hakon fled to Denmark. 971. Earl Hakon returned to Drontheim. 976. The Emperor Otto's second expedition to Denmark. 977. King Harald Graafeld kiUed. 978. Hakon made earl of Norway. 988. The Emperor Otto's third expedition to Denmark. 993. Birth of King Olaf the Saint. 994. The battle of Earl Hakon with the Jomsburg vikings. 996. Earl Hakon killed, and Olaf Tryggvesson made king of Norway. 1000. The battle at Svoldr, in which King Olaf Tryggves- son fell. 1008. King Swein Forked-beard died this year, according to the dates deduced from the Saga ; but according to the Saxon Chronicle, unquestionably a much higher authority for the dates. King Swein died at Candle- mas, 1014. 1012. The death of Ethelred is placed in this year by Snorro and the Sagas ; but according to the Saxon Chro- nicle he died in 1016.