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Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway

Snorri Sturluson · c. 1225 primary

passage 209 of 553 · part of the saga (chaps. 21-46) treats of the disputes > Part of it fell into the sea,-- (123/463)

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in brief
After the reconciliation, Olaf of Norway travels to Viken, visits Tunsberg, sails to Throndhjem in harvest time, wintering there, while Harald Harfager’s conquests are referenced and disputed regions are said to be retaken or held peacefully.
  1. OF OLAF OF NORWAY, AFTER THE MEETING.

After the events now related Olaf returned with his people to Viken. He went first to Tunsberg, and remained there a short time, and then proceeded to the north of the country. In harvest-time he sailed north to Throndhjem, and had winter provision laid in there, and remained there all winter (A.D. 1090). Olaf Haraldson was now sole and supreme king of Norway, and the whole of that sovereignty, as Harald Harfager had possessed it, and had the advantage over that monarch of being the only king in the land. By a peaceful agreement he had also recovered that part of the country which Olaf the Swedish king had before occupied; and that part of the country which the Danish king had got he retook by force, and ruled over it as elsewhere in the country. The Danish king Canute ruled at that time both over Denmark and England; but he himself was in England for the most part, and set chiefs over the country in Denmark, without at that time making any claim upon Norway.

  1. HISTORY OF THE EARLS OF ORKNEY.
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topics: conquest, plunder, and captives · naval warfare and sea power · voyages and seafaring

Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway · Snorri Sturluson · 1225