Alfifa's son, died in Denmark. Thiodolf the skald made these lines
concerning King Magnus:--

"Through Sweden's dirty roads the throng
Followed the king in spearmen strong.
Svein doth fly, in truth afraid,
And partly by his men betrayed;
Flying to Denmark o'er the sea,
He leaves the land quite clear to thee."

Bjarne Gullbrarskald composed the following lines concerning Kalf
Arnason:--

"By thee the kings got each his own,--
Magnus by thee got Norway's throne;
And Svein in Denmark got a seat,
When out of Norway he was beat.
Kalf! It was you who showed the way
To our young king, the battle-lover,--
From Russia to his father's sway
You showed the way, and brought him over."

King Magnus ruled over Norway this winter (A.D. 1036), and Hardaknut
over Denmark.

7. RECONCILIATION BETWEEN HARDAKNUT AND KING MAGNUS.

The following spring (A.D. 1036) the kings on both sides ordered out a
levy, and the news was that they would have a battle at the Gaut river;
but when the two armies approached each other, the lendermen in the one
army sent messengers to their connections and friends in the other;
and it came to a proposal for a reconciliation between the two kings,
especially as, from both kings being but young and childish, some
powerful men, who had been chosen in each of the countries for that
purpose, had the rule of the country on their account. It thus was
brought about that there was a friendly meeting between the kings,
and in this meeting a peace was proposed; and the peace was to be a
brotherly union under oath to keep the peace towards each other to the
end of their lives; and if one of them should die without leaving a son,
the longest liver should succeed to the whole land and people. Twelve
of the principal men in each kingdom swore to the kings that this treaty
should be observed, so long as any one of them was in life. Then the
kings separated, and each returned home to his kingdom; and the treaty
was kept as long as both lived.

8. OF QUEEN ASTRID.

Queen Astrid, who had been married to King Olaf the Saint, came to
Norway with King Magnus her stepson, as before related, and was held by
him deservedly in great honour and esteem. Then came also Alfhild,
King Magnus's mother, to the court, and the king received her with
the greatest affection, and showed her great respect. But it went with
Alfhild, as it does with many