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"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. Harald Haarfagr was the first to put an end to this state of things, and become memorable and profitable to his country by uniting it under one head and making a kingdom of it; which it has continued to be ever sin"

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