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OLAF THE TRANQUIL, MAGNUS BAREFOOT, AND SIGURD THE.
CRUSADER.
The new King Olaf, his brother Magnus having soon died, bore rule in Norway for some five-and-twenty years.

Rule soft and gentle, not like his father's, and inclining rather to improvement in the arts and elegancies than to anything severe or dangerously laborious.

A slim-built, witty-talking, popular and pretty man, with uncommonly bright eyes, and hair like floss silk: they called him Olaf _Kyrre_ (the Tranquil or Easygoing).
The ceremonials of the palace were much improved by him.

Palace still continued to be built of huge logs pyramidally sloping upwards, with fireplace in the middle of the floor, and no egress for smoke or ingress for light except right overhead, which, in bad weather, you could shut, or all but shut, with a lid.