KINGS OF NORWAY. 97 who after him were kings of England, but afterwards saga ix. were driven out by Canute the Great of Denmark; and Jatward, or Edward the Saint *, was king of Eng- land after Hardacanute. Canute the Great married Emma after the death of Ethelred, and had by her Haraldf and Hardacanute, or Hardaknut. King Ed- ward was married to Gyda daughter of Earl Godwin, and a grand-daughter of Thorkel Sprakaleg, and sis- ter's daughter to the Danish king Swend Ulfsson. As she and King Edward had no children, her brother Harald took the kingdom after King Edward, and thus came England out of the family of Ethelred the Good. Harald Godwinsson had been king of England nine months and a half J when he fell, and there was none remaining of Earl Godwin's descendants but Earl Teste's sons Ketil and Skule, and Gyde the daughter of Harald. She was married to Yaldemar king of Novogorod, a son of Jarisleif and Queen Ingigerd, who was a daughter of King Olaf the Swede. By her he had King Harald, who was married to Chris- tina, a daughter of King Inge Steinkelsson of Sweden. Their daughters were Malfrid and Ingeborg. Sigurd the Crusader married Malfrid, and afterwards she married King Eric Eymund of Denmark. Duke Ca- nute Lavard married Ingeborg, Harald's daughter; and their children were the Danish king Yaldemar, Christina, Katrina, and Margaret. King Valdemar married Sophia, a daughter of Valader king of Poland by Queen Rikize. The children of Yaldemar and Sophia were King Yaldemar and King Canute, and Christina, who was married to King Karl Sorkvisson. Their children were King Sorkvir, King Yaldemar,
- Edward the Confessor is here meant; not Saint Edward, who was
killed about 959> ^^^ was the son of Edgar. •j" Harald was not a son of Emma, but of Algiva, a former wife or concubine of Canute.
- |: Forty weeks and one day, according to the Saxon Chronicle.
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