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 390 CHRONICLE OF THE NOTES. 1093. King Olaf the Tranquil died, and was succeeded by Magnus Barefoot, his son, who appears to have been on a marauding expedition in the spring and summer of this year in the Hebudes. 1096. King Magnus was on an expedition to the Hebudes, and subdued Islay, Man, and Anglesey. 1098. King Magnus appears to have made a third expedition to the Orkney Islands, and from thence to have gone to the Hebudes and Ireland. On this expedition the circumstance appears to have taken place of his sitting in his boat, and being drawn across the isthmus of the Mull of Cantire, and claiming all that lay to the westward of what he passed through with his ship. His son Sigurd, then nine years of age, was betrothed on this expedition to Biadmynia, a daughter of an Irish king called Myriartak in the saga. 1099. King Magnus returned from this expedition. 1101. A meeting at the Gotha river between King Eric the Good of Denmark, Inge the Swedish king, and King Magnus. 1 102. King Magnus went on another expedition to Ireland. 1103. King Magnus was killed in Connaught, with many of his troops. Sigurd his son left Biadmynia his Irish wife, and returned to Norway ; and the three sons of Magnus, Eystein, Sigurd, and Olaf, were made joint kings. 1107. King Sigurd set out on his expedition to the Holy Land. 1110. King Sigurd was in Sicily, and assisted, according to the saga, at the coronation of Count Koger as king of Sicily. 1111. Sigurd returned by land from Constantinople to Norway. 1 1 14. Sigurd married Malmfrid, a daughter of Harald king of Novogorod. 1116. Olaf, one of the sons of Magnus Barefoot, and one of the joint kings of Norway, died. 1118. Magnus, called King Magnus the Blind, was born. 1122. Eystein, the other son of Magnus Barefoot, and joint king with Sigurd, died. 1126. Harald Gille, caUing himself a bastard son of Magnus