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as well as others, submitted the histories they had written of their country for revision.
Sæmund, not content to inspect the works of others, began, after the example of Arras, to rescue the antiquities of his country from oblivion. He was then about 70 years of age. It is certain that he wrote the history of Norway, from Harald Harfagre, or the Fair-haired, to Magnus the good. A few remains of this history are seen in the writings of an anonymous person, who from documents thence derived, has written in Icelandic verses of little note, an account of a series of Kings, and the ancient history of Norway.
According to some, he died at the age of eighty, in the year 1133; and according to others, 1135. But the accounts that are left of him are so blended with
