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resisting or revenging. It did, after a little while, prove the|[ruin and destruction of Hakon the Eich, as he was then called. It opened the door, namely, for entry of Olaf Tryggveson upon the scene, — a very much grander man ; in regard to whom the wiles and traps of Hakon proved to he a recipe, not on Trygg- veson, but on the wily Hakon himself, as shall now be seen straightway.