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this belief will also fall and be destroyed \\hen the new one 

 rises. The second wonder was when we heard the w helps 

 bark in the bitches. That 1 think must foretell that young men 

 will take the words from the mouths of the older, and become 

 so reckless that they will have no less to say, though the older 

 are oftener wiser in counsels. And I think that those of whom 

 this will be true have not yet come into the world, for the 

 whelps which barked while the mothers were silent were yet 

 unborn. 



'"The third, when we saw the waves, one from the outer 

 part, and the other from the inner part of the fjord, meet mid- 

 ways and fall each on the other's neck, and the water become 

 bloody from the disturbance therefrom forebodes, I think, that 

 some enmity will arise between great men within the country, 

 whence will come lights and much disturbance. It is very 

 likely that some offshoot of this war will take place at the 

 Limafjord, because it is there we have seen these wonders of 

 which I have spoken.' 



" King G-orm was satisfied with the words of the Jarl, and 

 thought him wise ; he gave him peace, and his anger departed. 

 It is said that before they went into the speech-room the King 

 had set men to slay the Jarl, if haughtiness and disrespect 

 were the onlv reasons for his not coming to the feast when 



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invited ; but the King now thought he had good cause for not 

 coming. They went away from the speech-room, and the Jarl 

 remained with him for a while. They then separated in peace, 

 and the Jarl received good gifts. He left with his followers, 

 and had a good journey home. 



u A short time after Klakkharald gave his foster-son and 

 kinsman Knut all -his realm, and Knut took the rule of Holt- 

 setaland and all the realms of Harald Jarl. 



" The Jarl made ready to leave, and began his journey 

 southward to Valland. He there embraced Christianity, and 

 never returned to Denmark " (Flateyjarbok, vol. i.). 



