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OLAF TRYGGVESON. 53 'curses, like chickens,' do sometimes visibly 'come home to feed,' as they always, either visibly or else invisibly, are punctually sure to do. Hakon Jarl is considerably connected with the Faroer Saga ; often mentioned there, and comes out perfectly in character ; an altogether worldly-wise man of the roughest type, not without a turn for practicality of kindness to those who would really be of use to him. His tendencies to magic also are not forgotten. Hakon left two sons, Eric and Svein, often also mentioned in this Saga. On their father's death they fled to Sweden, to Denmark, and were busy stirring up troubles in those countries against Olaf Tryggveson; till at length, by a favourable com- bination, under their auspices chiefly, they got his brief and noble reign put an end to. Nay, further- more, Jarl Eric left sons, especially an elder son^ named also Eric, who proved a sore affliction, and a continual stone of stumbling to a new generation of Haarfagrs, and so continued the curse of Sigurd's murder upon them. Towards the end of this Hakon's reign it was that