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Rh The drinking-horns were brought and the men of Viken pledged their fealty as they were drained.

Then they gathered within the hall, and while King Olaf sat at the high seat at the head of the table, his mother and his sister and his proud step-father near him, they feasted for long, merry hours. Finding so much love and loyalty in the province of Viken, Olaf thought it a most promising field for the beginning of his crusade of Christianity. Day after day, Bishop Sigurd and Father Breasal instructed the people, who accepted the religion of Christ with eagerness. Nearly the entire province of Viken became Christian, and King Olaf was intensely gratified. Encouraged by his success in Viken, the king proceeded to the province of Agder, where his zeal met with a similar return, and after a few months’ sojourn he left nearly all Agder faithful to the Christ.