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he did not lack wisdom or cruelty, and died from old age in 

 England, and was mourned there. Then were all the sons of 

 Lodbrok dead. 



"After Ivar, Adalmund Jatgeirssoii got the kingship <>t 

 England ; he was a brother's son of Jatinund (Edgarson) tin- 

 holy, and he christianized England widely; he took taxes for 

 Northumberland, because it was heathen/ After him got tin- 

 kingship his son Adalbrigt (Ethelbert) ; he was a good king, 

 and became old. In his old age a Danish host came to 

 England, and their leaders were Knut and Harald, sons of 

 King Gorm. They underlaid (subdued) a large realm in 

 Northumberland which Ivar had owned. King Adalbrigt went 

 against them, and they fought north of Kliflond (( Cleveland), 

 and many Danes fell. The Danes went ashore at Skardaborg 

 (Scarborough) and fought there and got the victory ; then they 

 went south to Jorvik ( York) and all the people became their 

 men and they were not afraid of themselves (were secure). 



" One day in hot weather the men went to swim, and as t hi- 

 king's sons (Gorm's sons) were swimming between the ships 

 men came running down on the shore and shot at them ; 

 Kuut was struck to death with an arrow ; they took the bod v 

 out to the ships. When the men of the country heard this 

 they gathered so that the Danes could not get ashore any 

 more because of the great number of people (against them), 

 and went back to Denmark. Gorm was then in Jutland. 

 When he heard the news he sank backwards and died of grief 

 the next day after at the same time as he had got the news 

 the day before. Then Harald got the kingship after him over 

 the Dana realm ; he was the first of his kinsmen who was 

 baptized " (Eagnar's Sons, c. iv.). 



" Sigurd Hjort (hart) was king in Hriugariki ; he was larger 

 and stronger than any other man, and one of the handsomest 

 men. His father was Helgi Hvassi, and his mother Aslaug, 

 daughter of Sigurd Snake-eye, son of Kagnar Lodbrok. It is 

 told that when Sigurd was twelve winters old he slew Hilde- 

 brand, berserk, in single fight, and twelve berserks in all. He 

 performed many great deeds, and there is a long Saga of him. 

 Sigurd had two children; his daughter Ragnhild surpassed 

 other women and was twenty years old while her brother 

 Guttorm was young. It is told of King Sigurd that he roil. 

 alone into unsettled places (deserts) and hunted big and 

 dangerous animals ; he always was very eager in that. One 

 day, as was his wont, when he had ridden a long distance. he 

 came to a clearing near Hadaland ; here he met the berserk 

 Hake with thirty men, and a fight took place, in which fell 

 Sigurd Hjort and twelve of Hake's men. Hake himself 



