KINGS OF NORWAY. 169 King Sigurd married Malmfrid, a daughter of King saga xn. Harald Waldemarsson eastward in Novogorod. Wal- ch after demar was a son of Jorisleif the Old and Ingigerd, of Ki^ daughter of the Swedish king Olaf the Swede. King Sigurd's Harald Waldemarsson's mother was Queen Gyde the ^^^^'^^^' Old, a daughter of the English king Harald Godmns- son. Queen Malmfrid's mother was Queen Christina, a daughter of the Swedish king Inge Steinkelsson. Harald Waldemarsson's other daughter, sister to Malmfrid, was Ingeborg, who was married to Canute Lavard, a son of the Danish king Eric the Good, and grandson of King Swend Ulfsson. Canute's and In- geborg' s children were, the Danish king Waldemar, who came to the Danish kingdom after Swend Erics- son; and daughters Margaret, Christina, and Cathe- rine. Margaret was married to Stig Huetaleder; and their daughter was Christina, married to the Swedish king Karl Sorkvisson, King John's father. Christina, who was married to Earl Erling Skakke, was a daughter of King Sigurd and Malmfrid. The king's relative, Sigurd Hranesson, came into Chavter strife with King Sigurd ; he was married to Skialdvor, Here bel a sister of Kino^ Mamus Barefoot by the mother's ?'""'*^'f . o o J account or side. He had had the Lapland collectorship * on the the cases king's account, because of their relationship and long Thing, friendship, and also of the many services Sigurd Hranesson had done to the Idngs ; for he was a very distinguished, popular man. But it happened to him, as it often does to others, that persons more wicked and jealous than upright slandered him to King Sigurd, and whispered in the king's ear that he took more of the Laplanders' tribute to himself than was proper. They spoke so long about this, that King Sigurd conceived
- The journey to Lapland to collect the taxes^ with which a profit-
able trade in furs was connected^ was, even in the earliest times, one of the greatest offices the king had to confer in respect of gain. Furs were always at a high value in the middle ages for ornamental purposes.
