Early Kings of Norway

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Till about the Year of Grace 860 there were no kings in Norway, nothing but numerous jarls, – essentially kinglets, each presiding over a kind of republican or parliamentary little territory; generally striving each to be on some terms of human neighborhood with those about him, but, – in spite of Fylke Things (Folk Things, little parish parliaments), and small combinations of these, which had gradually formed themselves, – often reduced to the unhappy state of quarrel with them