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in death. One of these later Gylle temporary Kings I remember by the
EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY.
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name of Harald Herdebred, Harald of the Broad Shoulders. The very last
of them I think was Harald Mund (Harald of the _Wry-Mouth_), who gave
rise to two Impostors, pretending to be Sons of his, a good while after the
poor Wry-Mouth itself and all its troublesome belongings were quietly
underground. What Norway suffered during that sad century may be
imagined.
EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY.
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CHAPTER XIV.
SVERRIR AND DESCENDANTS [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], TO HAKON THE OLD.
The end of it was, or rather the first abatement [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and _beginnings_ of
the end, That, when all this had gone on ever worsening for some forty
years or so, one Sverrir (A.D. 1177), at the head of an armed mob of poor
people called _Birkebeins_ [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], came upon the scene. A strange enough figure
in History, this Sverrir and his Birkebeins! At first a mere mockery and
dismal laughing-stock to the enlightened Norway public. Nevertheless by
unheard-of fighting, hungering, exertion, and endurance, S
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