King Magnus afterwards ordered the people to be summoned to Viborg to a
Thing. Both in older and later times, the Danes elected their kings at
the Viborg Thing. At this Thing the Danes chose Magnus Olafson to be
king of all the Danish dorninions. King Magnus remained long in Denmark
during the summer (A.D. 1042); and wherever he came the people received
him joyfully, and obeyed him willingly. He divided the country into
baronies and districts, and gave fiefs to men of power in the land. Late
in autumn he returned with his fleet to Norway, but lay for some time at
the Gaut river.