Whereupon Olaf's joy was no doubt great.
One general result of these successful operations was the discontent, to all manner of degrees, on the part of many Norse individuals, against this glorious and victorious, but peremptory and terrible king of theirs.

Tryggveson, I fancy, did not much regard all that; a man of joyful, cheery temper, habitually contemptuous of danger.

Another trivial misfortune that befell in these conversion operations, and became important to him, he did not even know of, and would have much despised if he had.

It was this: Sigrid, queen dowager of Sweden, thought to be amongst the most shining women of the world, was also known for one of the most imperious, revengeful, and relentless, and had got for herself the name of Sigrid the Proud.

In her high widowhood she had naturally many wooers; but treated them in a manner unexampled.