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The Early Kings of Norway DL 460 No. 514. QO Cents. ball's mm Vol. lo. \ ,. J. :-•!,. ^ n, 1885. AiiMtial Subscription, $3'J.im EARLY KINGS eg Jay A ' OF ;v NORWAY BY THOMAS CARLYLE " Author of HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REV- OLUTION," ";PAST AND PRESENT." EnteredI at (he Post Office, N. Y„ „ Becond-class matter. Copyright, 1*85, by John W. Lovkll Co. «SSf$EW-YORK< ^^"^ *10HN»W'LOVjqL»GOnPANY» M ^r HDING for this volume can beYbtafnedl Her or newsdealer. 5cts. 5 5 . LOVELL'S LIBRARY.-CATALOGUE. i. Hyperion 20 65. Selma 15 127. Under T Flags, Pt I. 20 2. Outre-Mer 20 66. Margaret and her Brides- Under Two Flags, Pt 1 1. 20 3. The Happy Boy 10 maids 20 128. Money 10 4. Arne 10 67. Horse Shoe Robinson, 129. In Peril of His Life 20 5. Frankenstein 10 2 Parts, each 15 130. India; What can it teach 6. TheLast of theMohi^ns.20 68. Gullivers Travels 20 us? 20 7. Clytie 20 69. Amos Barton 10 131. Jets and Flashes 20 8. The Moonstone, Part 1. 10 7a The Berber 20 132. Moonshine and Margue- 9. The Moonstone, Part II. 10 71. Silas Marner 10 rites to. Oliver Twist 20 72. Queen of the County . .20 133. Mr. Scarborough 1 1. The Coming Race 10 73. Life of Cromwell 15 Family, 2 Parts, each ..15 12. Leila 10 74. Jane Eyre 20 t34. Arden 13. The Three Spaniards... 20 75. Child'sHist'ry of Engl'd. 20 135. Tower of Percemont 14. The Tricks of the Greeks.20 76. Molly Bawn 20 136. Yolande 1 5. L* Abbe Constantin 20 77. Pillone 15 137. Cruel London 16. Freckles 20 78. Phyllis * 20 138. The Gilded Clique \ 7. The Dark Colleen 20 79. Romola, Part I. ...... ..15 139. Pike County Folks.. 18. They were Married ....10 Romola Part II 140. Cricket on the Hearth .. 10 ; 15 19. Seekejs After God 20 80. Science in ShortChapters. 20 141. Henry Esmond 20 20. The Spanish Nun 10 81. Zanom 20 142. Strange Adventures of a 21. Green Mountain Boys.. 20 82. A Daughter of Heth 20 Phaeton 20 22. Fleurette 20 83. Right and Wrong Uses of 143. Denis Duval 10 23. 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Sunrise, Part II 15 Amazon 10 Tempest Tossed, P't I Lao 154. Tour of the World in 80 35. The Cryptogram 10 95- Letters from High Lat- Days 20 36. Life of Marion 20 itudes 20 155. Mystery of Orcival 20 3 7. Paul and Virginia 10 96. Gideon Fleyce 20 156. Lovel, the Widower. ... 10 38. A Tale of Two Cities. ... 20 97- India and Ceylon 20 157. Romantic Adventures of 39. The Hermits. 20 98. The Gypsy Queen 20 a Milkmaid 10 40. An Adventure in Thule, 99. The Admiral's Ward. ... 20 158. DavidCopperfield,Part 1. 20 etc ..10 100. Nimport, 2 Parts, each.. 15 DavidCopperfield,P'rt II.20 41. A Marriage in High Life2o 101. Harry Holbrooke. 20 159. Charlotte Temple 10 42. Robin 20 102. Tritons, 2 Parts, each . 15 160. Rienzi, 2 Parts, each 43. Two on a Tower 20 103. Let Nothing You Dismay, to 161. Promise of Marriage. 10 44. Rasselas 10 104. Lady Audley's Secret. 20 162. Faith and Unfaith 20 45. Alice ; a sequel to Er- 105. Woman's Place To-day. 20 163. The Happy Man 10 nest Maltravers 20 106. Dunallan, 2 parts, each. 15 164. Barry Lyndon 20 46. Dukt of Kandos 20 107. Housekeeping and Home 165. Eyre's Acquittal 10 47. Baron Munchausen 10 making 15 166. 20,000 Leagues Under the ; 48. A Princess of Thule .... 20 108. No New Thing 20 Sea 49. The Secret Despatch.. .20 109. The SpoopendykePapers. 2 o 167. Anti-Slavery Days 20 50 Early Days of Christian- no. False Hopes... 15 168. Beauty's Daughters. .... 20 ity, 2 Parts, each 20 in. Labor and Capital 20 169. Beyond the Sunrise 51. Vicar of Wakefield 10 112. Wanda, 2 parts, each ... 15 170. Hard Times 20 52. Progress and Poverty... 20 113. More Words about Bible. 20 17L Tom Cringle's Log .... 20 53. The Spy 20 X14. Monsieur Lecocq, P't. 1. 20 172. Vanity Fair 30 ...2 54. East Lynne 20 Monsieur Lecocq, Pt. 1 1. 20 173. Undergiound Russia. 2Pts.each.2C 55. A Strange Story 20 «5- An Outline of Irish Hist. 10 174. Middlemarchf 56. Adam Bede, Part 1 15 116. The Lerouge Case 20 175. Sir Tom 20 Adam Bede, Part II.... 15 117. Paul Clifford 20 176. Pelham 20 10 57. The Golden Shaft 20 118. A New Lease of LifeV .20 177. The Story of Ida eS. Portia 20 119. Bourbon Lilies 20 178. Madcap Violet 20 10 59. Last Days of Pompeii... 20 120. Other People's Money.. 20 179. The Little Pilgrim 20 60. The Two Duchesses. .20 121. Lady of Lyons 10 180. Kilmeny 61. TomBrown ,8SchoolDays.20 122. Ameline de Bourg r5 181. Whist, or Bumblepuppy ?. 10 182. Beautiful Wretch. .20 62. Wooing O't, 2 Pts. each. 1 123. A Sea Queen 20 That >• 63. The Vendetta 20 124. The Ladies Lindores. ..20 183. Her Mother's Sin 2c H- Hypatia, Part I .15 "5. Haunted Hearts 10 184. Green Pastures, etc Pt I.*- Hypatia, Part II... .t.15 Lovs, Lord Bertslord . .ao 185. Mysterious Island, THE EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY ,/ THOMAS CAELYLE If U AUTHOR OF THB HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II., CALLED FREDERICK THE GREAT," "HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION," 4 i PAST AND PRESENT," ETC. "^ SlGU. ^ w NEW YORK JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY 14 and 16 Vesey Street ^ Tcj<^ n-3/ 3¥b TROWS PRINTING ANO BOOKBINDING COMPANY,, NEW YORK. t u CONTENTS. CHAPTER. PAGE I. Harald Haarfagr 7 II. Eric Blood-axe and Brothers 11 III. Hakon the Good 14 IV. Harald Grey-fell and Brothers 20 V. Hakon Jarl , 24 VI. Olaf Tryggveson 29 VII. Reign of Olaf Tryggveson 33 VIII. Jarls Eric and Svein 48 IX. King Olaf the Thick-set's Viking Days 53 X. Reign of King Olaf the Saint 61 XI. Magnus the Good and Others 83 XII. Olaf the Tranquil, Magnus Barefoot, and Sigurd the Crusader 94 XIII. Magnus the Blind, Harald Gylle, and Mutual Ex- tinction OF THE HAARFAGRS 99 XIV. SVERRIR AND DESCENDANTS, TO HAKON THE OLD 100 XV. Hakon the Old at Largs 102 XVI. Epilogue 104 The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing, and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship, says Dahlmann. It is to this fact that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their old tragedies, crimes, and heroisms, is almost all due. The Ice- landers, it seems, not only made beautiful letters on their paper or parchment, but were laudably observant and desirous of accuracy ; and have left us such a collection of narratives (Sagas, literally * Says') as, for quantity and quality, is unexampled among rude nations. Snorro Sturleson's History of the Norse Kings is built out of these old Sagas, and has in it a great deal of poetic fire, not a little faithful sagacity ap- plied in shifting and adjusting these old Sagas, and, in a word, deserves, were it once well edited, furnished with accurate maps, chronological summaries, &c, to be reckoned among the great history-books of the world. It is from these sources, greatly aided by accurate, learned, and unwearied Dahlmann, 1 the German Professor, that the following rough notes of the early Norway Kings are hastily thrown together. In His- tories of England (Rapin's excepted) next to nothing has been shown of the many and strong threads of connection between English affairs and Norse. 1 Geschichte von Danemark, J. Q, Dahlmann, 3 vols. 8vo. Hamb. 1840-3. — EARLY KINGS OF NOKWAY. CHAPTER I. HAKALD HAARFAGR. Till about the Year of Grace 860 there were no kings in Norway, nothing but numerous jarls, —essentially kinglets, each presiding over a kind of republican or parliamentary little territory ; generally striving each to be on some terms of human neighbourhood with those about him, but, in spite of 'Fylke Things ' (Folk Things)—little parish parliaments and small combinations of these, which had gradually formed themselves, often reduced to the unhappy state of quarrel with them. Harald Haarfagr was the first to put an end to tfris state of things, and become memorable and profitable to his country by uniting it under one head and making a king- dom of it ; which it has continued to be ever since.
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