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    Default Saga of Magnus the Good

    Magnus reigned from A.D. 1035 to 1047, when he died. During the last year of his
    reign his half-brother Harald Sigurdson was his co-regent.
    The history of Magnus is treated in "Agrip.", ch. 28-32; in "Fagrskinna", ch.
    119-146; in "Fornmannasogur", part vi., and in "Knytlinga Saga".
    The skalds quoted in this saga are: Arnor the earls' skald (Arnor Jarlaskald),
    Sigvat, Thjodulf, Bjarne Gullbrarskald, Thorgeir Flek, Od Kikinaskald.

    1. MAGNUS OLAFSON'S JOURNEY FROM THE WEST.

    After Yule Magnus Olafson began his journey from the East from
    Novgorod to Ladoga, where he rigged out his ships as soon as the
    ice was loosened in spring (A.D. 1035). Arnor, the earls' skald,
    tells of this in the poem on Magnus: --
    "It is no loose report that he,
    Who will command on land and sea,
    In blood will make his foeman feel
    Olaf's sword Hneiter's sharp blue steel.
    This generous youth, who scatters gold,
    Norway's brave son, but ten years old,
    Is rigging ships in Russia's lake,
    His crown, with friend's support, to take."
    In spring Magnus sailed from the East to Svithjod. So says
    Arnor: --
    "The young sword-stainer called a Thing,
    Where all his men should meet their king:
    Heroes who find the eagle food
    Before their lord in arms stood.
    And now the curved plank of the bow
    Cleaves the blue sea; the ocean-plough
    By grey winds driven across the main,
    Reaches Sigtuna's grassy plain."
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