1376–1387.

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1375, 1376.Olaf, Son of Hako, elected; his Mother Regent[253]
1373.Lavish Promises of Margaret[254]
Opinion respecting them[255]
1376–1380.She triumphs over all Competitors[255]
1380–1386.Olaf becomes King of Norway; ambitious Policy of the Queen-Mother[256]
1386.Transactions with the House of Holstein[257]
1387.Sudden Death of Olaf[258]

CHAP. II.

NORWAY.

1030–1387.

CANUTE THE GREAT.—SWEYN.—MAGNUS I.—HARALD HARDRADE.—OLAF III.—MAGNUS II.—MAGNUS BAREFOOT.—EVILS OF A DIVIDED SOVEREIGNTY.—ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF SIGURD I.—MAGNUS IV.—CIVIL WARS.—EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF SWERRO.—HAKO IV.—MAGNUS VI.—ERIC II.—HAKO V.—OTHER SOVEREIGNS.—UNION OF NORWAY WITH DENMARK.

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1030–1035.Canute the Great.—Sweyn[260]
1035.The Norwegians look to Magnus, a bastard Son of St. Olaf[261]
1035, 1036.Magnus I. enters into a Treaty with the King of Denmark[262]
1038–1040.His Mother and Stepmother[262]
1042–1046.He becomes King of Denmark[262]
1047.Last Days of this Monarch[263]
1047–1064.Harald Hardrade[263]
1066.He falls in England[264]
1066–1069.Two Kings in Norway[264]
1069–1093.Olaf alone[264]
1093–1095.Magnus Barefoot[265]
1096–1099.His Expedition to the British Isles[265]
1099–1101.His War with Sweden[266]
1102–1103.His second Expedition to these Islands, and his Death in Ireland[266]
1103.Partition of the Sovereignty between his three Sons[267]
1103–1122.Fate of two of them[268]
1107–1111.Romantic Adventures of the third Son, Sigurd I.[268]
1111–1123.His Severity against Idolaters[269]
1124–1130.His strange Conduct[270]
1130.Magnus IV. compelled to share the Kingdom with an Adventurer[271]
1130–1152.Harald IV.—Sigurd II., &c.[272]
1152.Arrival of a Papal Legate[273]
1153–1161.Internal Troubles[274]
1161–1164.Continued[275]
1164–1170.Transactions with Denmark[276]
1166–1169.Troubles; Rival for the Throne[276]
1173–1177.A second Rival[277]
1174–1178.A third, the celebrated Swerro[277]
1178–1186.His romantic Adventures[278]
1186–1194.Swerro’s vigorous Rule[280]
1194–1200.His unscrupulous Conduct[282]
1194–1202.Internal Troubles[283]
1202.His Death and Character[283]
1202–1204.Hako III.[284]
1204–1207.Guthrum[284]
1207.Ordeal to prove the Descent of Hako from King Swerro[284]
1208–1241.Hako IV.; his troubled Minority[285]
1242–1260.Internal Events of his Reign[286]
1263.His Transactions with the Scots[287]
His famous Expedition[288]
1263–1266.Magnus VI.[289]
1263–1280.Internal Changes during this Reign[290]
1280–1289.Eric II.[291]
1289–1299.Transactions with Scotland[292]
1299–1319.Hako V.[292]
1319.Under this Prince, Norway declines[293]
1319–1387.Succeeding Kings[294]

CHAP. III.

SWEDEN.

1001–1389.