ld be ended it was his wish to
have Svein to have dominion over the realm of Denmark, saying that it
was meet that Harald should rule over Norway and Svein over Denmark.
Thereafter died King Magnus the Good, & all folk mourned his death. Thus
saith Od Kikina-Skald:

'Full many a tear did men shed
When the mild King was borne to the grave.
Heavy the burden for those that he had benefited with gold,
Sore were the hearts of the house carles,
Their tears held they not back,
And oft-times in sorrow now are his people down-cast.'

|| When he heard these tidings summoned King Harald his host to a Thing,
and opened unto them a scheme whereof the purport was to fare forth to
the Vebiorg Thing, and cause himself there to be acclaimed King of
Denmark.

Thence would he conquer his country, for he accounted Denmark his own
heritage in succession to his kinsman Magnus in like manner as with the
kingdom of Norway.

And for this purpose bade he his men give him their assistance, for
then, said he, the Norwegians would be masters of the Danes for all
time. Then up and spake Einar Thamberskelfir, and said, rather was it
his duty to convey his foster-son King Magnus to the grave and to the
latter's father King Olaf, than to fight in a foreign land, or to covet
ye might and dominion of another King; therefore concluded he his
speaking by saying that better he deemed it to follow King Magnus dead
than any other king living. Afterwards caused he the corpse to be ta'en
and laid out in solemn state so that all might see it arrayed on board
the King's own ship. Thereafter all the men of Throndhjem and the
Norwegians made them ready to return home with the body of King Magnus &
the war-host was disbanded. Then did King Harald perceive that by so
much was it his wisest policy to fare back even unto Norway and first of
all things to make that country his own, and thereafter wax in power. So
Harald hied him thither with the whole of his host thus unto Norway, and
even so soon as he was come thither held he a Thing of the men of the
land, and caused himself to be acknowledged King over the whole country;
he fared right from the east, from Vik, and was acclaimed King by every
folkland in Norway.

|| Einar Thamberskelfir journeyed to Norway with the corpse of King
Magnus; with him fared all the host of the Throndhjem folk; & they took
the body to Nidaros where it was buried in the chapel of Saint Clement
wherein was then the sh