Jomsburgers with his father long ago, was now made Governor of Norway:
Governor or quasi-sovereign, with his brother, Jarl. Svein, as
partner, who, however, took but little hand in governing;--and, under
the patronage of Svein Double-Beard and the then Swedish king (Olaf
his name, Sigrid the Proud, his mother's), administered it, they say,
with skill and prudence for above fourteen years. Tryggveson's death
is understood and laboriously computed to have happened in the year
1000; but there is no exact chronology in these things, but a
continual uncertain guessing after such; so that one eye in History as
regards them is as if put out;--neither indeed have I yet had the luck
to find any decipherable and intelligible map of Norway: so that the
other eye of History is much blinded withal, and her path through
those wild regions and epochs is an extremely dim and chaotic one. An
evil that much demands remedying, and especially wants some first
attempt at remedying, by inquirers into English History; the whole
period from Egbert, the first Saxon King of England, on to Edward the
Confessor, the last, being everywhere completely interwoven with that
of their mysterious, continually invasive "Danes," as they call them,
and inextricably unintelligible till these also get to be a little
understood, and cease to be utterly dark, hideous, and mythical to us
as they now are.

King Olaf Tryggveson is the first Norseman who is expressly mentioned
to have been in England by our English History books, new or old; and
of him it is merely said that he had an interview with King Ethelred
II. at Andover, of a pacific and friendly nature,--though it is
absurdly added that the noble Olaf was converted to Christianity by
that extremely stupid Royal Person. Greater contrast in an interview
than in this at Andover, between heroic Olaf Tryggveson and Ethelred
the forever Unready, was not perhaps seen in the terrestrial Planet