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in a similar issue. They handed over a sword with golden handle as a gift from
Halfdan, and asked Louis to accept the brothers as his "sons". Oaths of peace were sworn between the Danes and Franks. They agreed to meet later on at the
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in 873. Little is known about them; they are the last Danish rulers recorded by contemporary sources before the 930s.
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176:. Louis agreed to that. Later in the same year, in August, Sigfred's brother Halfdan sent envoys to Louis in
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321:, Vol. I:1. Christiania: Tonsberg, p. 744.
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