After this he wished to avenge Erik, who had been slain in Sweden by the malice of a certain Osten.

But while he was narrowly bent on avenging another, he squandered his own blood on the foe; and while he was eagerly trying to punish the slaughter of his brother, sacrificed his own life to brotherly love.
Thus SIWARD, by the sovereign vote of the whole Danish assembly, received the empire of his father.

But after the defeats he had inflicted everywhere he was satisfied with the honour he received at home, and liked better to be famous with the gown than with the sword.
He ceased to be a man of camps, and changed from the fiercest of despots into the most punctual guardian of peace.

He found as much honour in ease and leisure as he had used to think lay in many victories.

Fortune so favoured his change of pursuits, that no foe ever attacked him, nor he any foe.