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Stiklestad been carried away, first to Sweden, afterwards 

 to Eussia. There, at the Court of Novgorod (Holmgaard), 

 the followers of Olaf had a friend in King Jarisleif's 

 queen, the Ingegerd who had once been destined for 

 Olaf. Eussia had nothing to fear from the King of 

 England and Denmark. This Jarisleif (Yaroslav), the 

 son of Vladomir, was the great-grandson of Eurik or 

 Eorik, who is reckoned the founder of this dynasty of 

 the Eussians in Greater Suithiod. Kalf and Einar 

 came first to Ladoga (Aldeigjuborg), and remained there 

 till they had got a favourable response to their invita- 

 tion to Magnus to come and claim the crown of 

 Norway. They were then invited to Novgorod, and 

 there they did homage to Magnus, or, at any rate, 

 acknowledged him as their king. Magnus then made a 

 triumphal progress through Sweden to the Throndhjem 

 district, and was proclaimed king at the Ore Thing 

 held there. 



By this time Cnut was near death. Hardacnut had 

 already received the crown of Denmark. Harald was 

 destined to succeed in England, and Svend in Norway. 

 The latter could hope for little support beyond that 

 which his new subjects were disposed to give him. It 

 very soon appeared that few of the bonders were dis- 

 posed to take up arms against Olaf's son, and Svend was 

 compelled to abandon the country and sail to Denmark. 

 Thus, without blood being shed, Magnus was restored 

 to the throne of his forefathers (a.d. 1035). 



The new king began by driving away many of those 

 who had fought against his father at Stiklestad, and 

 confiscating their estates ; albeit he had promised that 

 his reign should be inaugurated by an ' act of oblivion.' 



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