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§ 6—SVEN, KNUT AND OLAF THE SAINT. 
Then in a moment twas stillness all, 
For from the deep there uprose a call, 
Round the fleet rippled a sighing, 
'“ Oh! the ‘ Long Serpent’ is taken : 
Fallen is Olaf Trygove’s son.’ 
Henceforth for many a hundred year, 
Northern shipmen behind them hear, 
Mostly when night-time is moon-lit, 
“Oh! the“ Long Serpent ’ is taken ; 
Fallen is Olaf Trygeve’s son. *? 
3 6.—CHARACTER OF SVEN, KNUT IN ENGLAND. OLAF 
HaRrALDsON, 1015 A.D.—1030 A.D.). 
Sven and Olof Skétkonung then divided the three king- 
doms between them (giving part of Norway to the sons of 
Hakon Jarl), and made a binding agreement that they 
should maintain the Christianity planted in their kingdoms 
and should propagate it among foreign nations (Adam: ch. 
80). Skétkonung was, therefore, at least, already a 
tatechumen. Sven, for his part, put down idolatry and 
proclaimed that Christianity was to be everywhere received 
in Norway, and appointed Gotebald, a bishop who had 
come from England, to be a teacher in Skane. Of this man 
we learn that he preached sometimes in Sweden and often 
in Norway (ch. 82). Sven, like Many men of this age, was 
double-minded and unstable, with good impulses but with 
sudden bursts and periods of ferocity and wickedness. In 
early life he had been baptized. Then he relapsed into 
Paganism, and became a bitter persecutor. Then, 
apparently before the Battle of Svoldr, he repented and was 
reconverted, and some Say was rebaptized. He died at 
Gainsborough, after the Conquest of England in 1014 A.D., 
leaving a great northern empire to his son, Knut, His 
body was first buried in England, but afterwards embalmed 
and sent to the Minster of Roskilde in Seland, which he 
had built. 
As long as Sven lived Olof Skétkonung was undisputed 
ruler of great part of Norway, and naturally clung to his
	        
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