 Section 65 of Himes Kringle by Snorri Sterlson, translated by George Pope Morris and Irakir Magnuson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The story of Sigurd, the Jerusalem Farrer, Einstein and Olaf, Part 4, Chapter 33 through 42. Chapter 33, A Woman Brought to the King on Yule Eve. So befell on a time on Yule Eve as the king sat in the hall and the boards were set that the king said, fetch me flesh meat. Lord said they it is not want, in Norway to eat flesh meat on Yule Eve. He answered if it be not the want, then will I have it the want. So they came and had in porpoise the king stuck his knife into it, but took not thereof. Then said the king, fetch me a woman into the hall. They came dither and had a woman with them and she was quaffed wide and side. The king laid his hand to her head and looked on her and said, an ill-favored woman is this yet not so that one may not endure her. Then he looked at her hand and said, an ungoodly hand and ill-waxing yet one must endure it. Then he bat her, reached forth her foot, he looked thereon and said, foot monstrous and Mikkel much, but one may give no heed there too. Such must be put up with. Then he bat them, lift up the curdle, and now he saw the leg and said, by on thy leg it is both blue and thick and a mere whore must thou be. And he bat them, take her out, for I will not have her. Chapter 34 Harold Gilly came into Norway. Hall-Kill-Hunch, the son of John Butterbear, was a landed man in Mir. He fared west over sea and all the way to the south isles, where came to meet him west, from Ireland he who hight Gilchrist, who said that he was the son of King Magnus Barefoot. His mother followed him and said that he hight Harold by another name. Hall-Kill took these folk to him and footed them over to Norway with him, and fared straightway with Harold and his mother to meet King Sigurd. And they bared forth their errand before the king. King Sigurd set this matter forth before the lords, and each might lay word thereto after his mind, but they all bat him have his own way in the matter. Then let King Sigurd call Harold before him and told him he will not gain say him, proving his fatherhood by ordeal. But on such terms that Harold shall let that be made fast, that though that fatherhood turn out as he saith, he Harold shall crave not the kingdom while King Sigurd or Magnus the king's son be alive, and this bond fared forth with oaths sworn. King Sigurd said that Harold should tread bars for his fatherhood and that ordeal was deemed somewhat hard, whereas it was to be gone through but for the fatherhood, not for the kingdom, which he had already foresworn. But Harold ye said it. He fasted unto iron, and that ordeal was done, which is the greatest, that ever has been done in Norway, whereas nine glowing plow shares were laid down, and Harold walked them barefoot, and was led by two bishops. Three days thereafter the ordeal was proven, and his feet were unburnt. After that King Sigurd took kindly to the kinship of Harold, but Magnus his son had much ill will to him, and many lords turned after him in the matter. King Sigurd trusted so much in his friendship with all the folk of the land that he bade this, that all should swear that his son Magnus would be king after him, and he got that oath sworn by all the land's folk. Chapter 35 of the Wager of Harold and Magnus Harold Gilly was a tall man and slender of build, long necked, somewhat long faced, black eyed, dark of hair, quick and swift of gait, and much more the Irish raiment, being short clad and light clad. The northern tongue was stiff for him and he fumbled much over the words, and many men had that for mockery. Harold sat on a time at the drink with another man and told tales from the rest of Ireland, and this was in his speech that in Ireland there were men so swift-foot that no horse might catch them up at a gallop. Magnus the king's son overheard that and said, now is he lying again as he is wont? Harold answers, true is this, that says he those men may be found in Ireland whom no horse in Norway shall outrun. On this they had some words and both were drunk, then said Magnus, now here shalt thou wager thine head if thou run not as hard as I ride my horse, but I will lay down against it my gold ring. Harold answers, I say not that I run so hard, but I shalt find those men in Ireland who so will run, and on that may I wager. Magnus the king's son answers, I shall not be faring to Ireland, here shall we have the wager and not there. Harold then went to bed and would have not more to do with him. This was in Oslo, but the next morning when the mountains were over, Magnus rode up unto the highway and sent word to Harold to come thither. And when he came he was so tight that he had on a shirt and breeches with wood sole bands a short cloak an Irish hat on his head and a spear shaft in hand. Now Magnus marked out the run. Harold says over long art thou minded to have the run. Magnus forthwith marked it off much longer but even so it was over short. There were many folk thereby then took they to the running and Harold ever kept at the withers. But when they came to the end of the run said Magnus, thou holdest by the girth and the horse drew thee. Magnus had a gout-land horse full swift. They took again another run back and then Harold ran all the course before the horse and when they came to the end of the run Harold asked, held I by the girth now, Magnus answers, thou didst take off first. Then Magnus let the horse breathe a while and when he was ready he smote the horse with his spurs and he came swiftly to the gallop. Then Harold stood still and Magnus looked back and called, run now, says he. Then Harold swiftly overran the horse and far ahead and so to the run's end and came home so much the first that he laid him down and sprang up and hailed Magnus when he came. Thereupon they went back home to the town but King Sigurd had been meanwhile at mass and knew not of this till after meet that day. Then spake ye and wrath to Magnus, ye call Harold a fool but meet things thou art the fool whereas thou knowest not the manners of outland men. This thou not know before that outland men train themselves at other sports than filling their punches with drink or making themselves mad and fit for naught and knowing nothing of a man, hand over to Harold his ring and never ate them again while my head is above mold. Chapter 36, Skill and Swimming Once when King Sigurd was out on his ships they were lying in harbor and beside them was a certain Chapman, a certain Iceland Keele. Harold Gilly was in the foreroom of the King's ship but next to him further forward lay Spine, son of Rimhild. He was son of Canute, son of Spine of Jadar. Sigurd, Sigurdson was a landed man of renown who steered a ship there. That was a fair weather day and hot sunshine and many men fared a swimming both from the long ships and the Chapman. A certain Icelander who was a swimming made a game of shoving down those men who were worser at swimming. There at men laughed. King Sigurd saw that and heard so he cast off his clothes from him and leaped out a swimming and made for the Icelander, grips him and thrust him down and held him under. And the next time that the Icelander came up straight away the King shoved him down again and so time after time Sigurd, Sigurdson said, shall we let the King slay the man? A man said that no one was full eager to go. Sigurd said there would be a man there too if they Eilefson were here. So there with Sigurd leaped overboard and swam to the King, took hold of him and said, Tyne, not the man, Lord, all men may see now that thou art much the best swimmer. The King said, let me loose Sigurd. I shall bring him to Bain. But he had no other choice to drown our men. Sigurd answered, we too shall play together first, but thou Icelander strike out for the land, and so he did. But the King let Sigurd loose and swam to his ship and so with all fared Sigurd. But the King spake in bed, Sigurd never be so bold as to come into his sight. This was told to Sigurd so he went up a land. Chapter 37 then spined Rem Hildsen. In the evening, when men fared to sleep, some men were ashore playing. Harold was at the play, and bade his swain fare out on to the ship, and died his bed, and bide him there. Though swain did so, the king was gone to bed, for when the page thought the time was long, he laid him on Harold's bed. Then spined Rem Hildsen said, A shame it is for doubty men to fare away from their homes for this, to drag their knaves up here as high as themselves. The swain answered, saying that Harold had sent him thither. Spined Rem Hildsen answered, We deem it not, so over good, a hap that Harold should lie here, though he dragged not up thralls here, or staffed carls. And therewith he gripped a cudgel, and smote the lad on the head, so that blood fell over him. The swain ran straightway up a land, and tells Harold what has befallen. Harold went straightway up onto the ship, and out into the foreroom, and smote with his handaxe at Spine, and gave him a great wound on the arm, and straightway Harold went up a land again. Spine ran up a land after him, and drifted there to his kinsmen, and laid hands on Harold, and were minded to hang him. But while they were making things ready, then went Sigurd Sigurdsen on board King Sigurd's ship, and waked him. But when King Sigurd opened his eyes, a new Sigurd he said, For this same shalt thou die, that thou hast come into my sight, for I banded thee. And the King leaped up. Sigurd spake that choice, thou mayest have as soon as thou wilt, King, but of the business now is first more due. Bear at thy swiftest up a land, and help Harold thy brother, for now the roguelanders will hang him. Then spake the King, God heed it now, Sigurd, call now the horned swing, and let blow the folk up after me. The King ran ashore, and all who knew him followed him even to where the gallows was died. Forthwith he took Harold to him, and all the folk rushed straightway to the King all wept, when as the horn had called out. Then said the King, that's fine, and all his fellows should fare as outlaws. But at the bidding of all men, it was gotten of the King, that they should have land dwelling and their goods, but the wound should be unattoned. Then asked Sigurd Sigurdsen, if the King were that he should fare away then, that I will not, said the King, never may I be without thee. Chapter 38, Miracle of King Olaf, brought on a man whose tongue was cut out. Cobine, height a young man and a poor, but thaw the mother of King Sigurd, Jerusalem fairer, let sheer the tongue from the head of him, for no greater guilt than that this young man Cobine had had a morsel out of the dish of the King's mother, and said that the cook had given it him, as he dared not take that on himself because of her. Siphons, fair this man, speechless a long while, this Einar Scullison sets forth in the droppa of Olaf. The noble horn of whiting for a young man's guilt, but little let from the head be shorn out the tongue of poor wealth craver. All guileless we beheld him, horde breaker, reft of speaking, a few weeks later, when as we were, whereas, to his live height. Siphons, he sought to Thrandheim and the Dois, and waked at Christ's church. But at night and song, on the second vigil of Olaf, he fell asleep, and thought he saw Olaf the Holy come to him, and betake his hand to the stump of the tongue and draw it. But when he awoke, he was whole, and faintly thanked our Lord and King Olaf, from whom he had gotten healing and mercy. He had fared thither speechless a forth, and sought to his Holy shrine, and then spare he whole with a clear speech. Chapter 39, Miracle of King Olaf, on a war-taken man. The heathen men took captive a certain young man, a dain of kin, and flitted him to Wendland, and had him there in bonds with other war-taken men. Now was he by daytime in irons alone, and unguarded, but at night was the son of the master in fetters with him, lest he should run away from him. But this poor man got never sleep nor rest for grief's sake, and sorrow, in many ways he would be thinking what help there might be for him. Much he dreaded thralldom, and feared both of hunger and torment. Yet no ransom could he hope for from his kinsmen, for the reason that they had set him loose twice before from heathen lands with money. So he deemed he knew that now they would think it both too great a matter and too costly to undergo it a third time. Well is the man who does not abide all the evil in this world, which he deemed now he had abided. Now there was nothing for him but to run away and to get off if that might be fated him. So next he takes reed in the dead of night, and slays the son of the master, and hues the foot from him, and so makes a way to the wood with his fetters. But the next morning when it lightened, they are aware of this, and fare after him with two hounds who will want to this to sent out whosoever ran away, and they find him in a wood whereas he lay hid from them. So now they lay hands on him, and beat him, and baste him, and play with him all kind of ill. Sithrence they drag him home, and leave him but bare life, and show him no other mercy. They drag him to the pains, and set him straight way into a murk, chamber wherein were already sixteen men, all Christian. There they bound him both with irons, and other bonds the fastest they might, so he deemed those woes and pains which he had had before as if they were but a shadow of all the evil which then he had. No man set an eye upon him in this prison who prayed for mercy for him. No man thought pity of that wretch, save the Christians who lay there in bonds with him. They grieved and greeted for his woe, and there thralled him and mishap. But on a day they laid this reed before him, and bat him behind him to the Holy King Olaf, and give him to service in the house of his glory if he might get him by God's mercy, and his prayers from that prison. This he yea said feign, and gave himself forthwith to the place they bade him. The next night he thought he saw in his sleep a man not high, stand there, an eye him, and speak to him on this wise. Harken thou wretched man, says he, why rises thou not up? He answers, my lord, what man art thou? He answers, I am King Olaf, on whom thou didst call. O ho, good my lord, says he, I would feign rise up if I might, but I lie bound in irons, and with all chained in fetters to those men who sit herein bound. Then the man calls on him and speaks thus in words, stand thou up swiftly and bewail thee not, for of our surety thou art now loose. Next to this he awoke and told his fellowship what had been born before him. So they bade him stand up and try if it were true, upstandeth he and can that he was loose. Now said his other companions and spake it that this would come to nothing for him, for the door was locked without and within. Then laid word there to an old man who sat there in the most woeful plight, and bade him not distrust the mercy of this man by whom he had already got him loose, and so said he, for he must have done a token on thee that thou mayest enjoy his mercy and be free henceforth, and not for more wretchedness and torment to thee. Now show thyself deft, says he, and seek the door, and if thou mayest get out thou art-holpen. So he did, finds the door open straightway, and runs out forthwith and off to the wood. So soon as they were aware of this, then they lay on their hounds and fared after him at their swiftest, but he lieth and hideeth him, and sees clearly wretched Carl where they fare after him. Now the hounds go astray from the spore as they draw nigh him, and they all got bewildered of sight, so that no one might find him, and yet there he lay before their very feet. So they went them home, thence, and bewailed much, and saw that they should not have happened on him. King Olaf let him not be undone, but when he had got into the wood gave him hearing, and all health, whereas they had before beaten all the head of him, and bruised it till he was deafened. Next here too he got into a ship with two Christians who had been long pined there, and all of them they made use of that craft to the utmost, and thus were flitted their ways from that path of flight. Scythons he sought to the house of this holy man, and was then grown whole, and fight worthy. But then he rude his behest, and broke his word to that merciful king, and ran away one day, and came at evening to a bonder, who for God's sake gave him harbour. Scythons, in the night when he was asleep, he saw three maidens come to him, fair and goodly, of array, who cast words at him at once, brow-beating him with heavy white, for being so overbowled to run away from that good king who had shown him so micro mercy. First that he loosed him from the irons, and then altogether out of the prison, and to keep aloof from that sweet Lord under whose hand he had gone. Next there too he awoke full of fear, and stood up so soon as it dawned, and told this to the master, and that good bonder would allow no otherwise for him, but to went home back to that holy stead. This miracle was first written by him, who himself saw that man, and the marks of the irons on him. Chapter 40 King Sigurd takes Cecilia to wife When as King Sigurd's lifetime war, this new hap befell his reed, that he will leave the queen alone, and give him that woman height, Cecilia, the daughter of a mighty man. He was minded to dyke the bridle in Björg Vinn, and let a ray amickle feast and glorious. But when Bishop Magni heard that, then was he unmarried, and on a day goeth the bishop to the hall, and with him his priest who was height Sigurd, and was Sithin's bishop in Björg Vinn. They come to the hall, and the bishop bids the king come out, and he did so came out with a drawn sword. The king gave good welcome to the bishop and bids him come to the drink with him. He said that other was his errand. Is it true, Lord, that thou art minded to marry, and to leave the queen alone? The king said that is true. There at the bishop began to swell Mikkel and said, How does it seem good to thee, Lord, to do this within our bishopric, and to put to shame God's right in holy church and thy kingdom? Now shall I do that which I am bound to, to band thee, thus unread on God's behalf, and the holy king Olaf, and the apostle Peter, and all holy saints? While he spoke, he stood straight up, and as if he stretched forth his neck, in case the king should let the sword sweep down. And so has said Sigurd Sithin's, who was bishop thereafter, that the heavens seemed no bigger to him than a calf's skin, so awful did the king show to him. Sithin's went the king back into the hall, but the bishop went home and was so gay that every child he greeted, laughing, and played with his fingers. Then spake, priests, Sigurd, ye art married, for soothed, Lord, cometh it not into thy mind, now that the king may lay his wrath on thee, and that it would be likelier to seek away. Then said the bishop likelier, Massimeth, that he will not do that, but how might my death they be better than to die for holy church, banning that which is not to be endured? Now, am I married, that I have done that which I ought to do? Sithin's was there to do in the town, and the king's men arrayed them for departure with much corn and malt and honey. And now the king maketh south for Stavanger, and there arrays the feast, and when the bishop who bore rule there, heard thereof, he meets the king and asks if it be true that he is minded to marry the queen yet living. The king said that so it was, the bishop answers, if that be so, Lord, thou mayest well see how much that is banned to the smaller folk. Now it is not unlike thou, mayest deem it free, whereas thou hast more might to let such things beseem thee. But yet, is that much against the right, and not what I, why, thou wilt do that within our bishopric to the shame thereby of God's commandments and holy church and our bishop done. Now therefore, thou wilt lay down somewhat big in moneys to this stead, and so boot God and us. Then said the king there, take the money, wondrous unlike are ye, thou and bishop Magni, and away went the king, no better pleased with this one than the other who laid forbidding thereon. Sithin's he get this woman for wife, and loved her Mikkel. Chapter 41, the furthering of the cheaping stead at King's Rock, King Sigurd let so much further the cheaping stead of King's Rock that there was none richer in Norway, and he sat there mostly for the guarding of the land. He let house the king's guard in the castle. He laid it on all the country's sides, which were Anay, the cheaping stead, and on the town spoke with all that every twelve month each man of nine winters old and upwards should bring to the castle five weapon stones or five beams elves, and these should be done sharp at one end and be of five elves height. There within the castle let King Sigurd do cross church. It was a freeing church and done with much care both of stuff and fashion. When as Sigurd had been king for four and twenty winters, then was hallowed this cross church, then that King Sigurd be there the Holy Cross and many other holy relics. This church was called Castle Church. There before the altar he set up an altar table which he had let make in Greek land. It was done of brass and of silver and fairly beguilded and beset with smalts and gemstones. There was a shrine which Eric ever minded the Dane King had sent to King Sigurd and a plenary written in golden letters which the patriarch had given to King Sigurd. Chapter 42 the death of King Sigurd. Three winters after the hallowing of cross church King Sigurd got a sickness when as he was staying in Oslo and there he died one night after Marimus in autumn. He was buried at Hallward's church and was laid in the stone wall out from the choir on the south side. Magnus the son of King Sigurd was then in the town and he took straight way all the king's treasures when the king died. Sigurd was king over Norway for seven and twenty winters. He was forty years of age. His times were good for the land's folk. There was both good increase and peace with all. End of the story of Sigurd, the Jerusalem fairer, Heistine and Olaf. Part 4 chapter 33 through 42 section 66 of Himes Kringlund by Snorri Sturlson translated by George Pope Morris and Ira Kerr Magnuson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The story of Magnus the blind and Harold Gilly part 1 chapter 1 through 5 chapter 1 the beginnings of Magnus the blind and Harold Gilly. Magnus son of King Sigurd was taken to king over all the land at Oslo even according as all the all folk had sworn to King Sigurd and the many men straight way then took service with him and landed men with all. Magnus was fairer than any men who were then in Norway. He was a man big moody and grim. A man of great prowess was he but the friendship of his father fetched him his most friendship with the all folk. He was a great drinker a wealth luster rough and ill to deal with. Harold Gilly was a right wise man merry and playful humble-minded bounteous so that he spared not to his friends an easy of read so that he would let others have their way with him in all matters they would. All these things stood him instead for good hap of friendship and good report so that many mighty men were drawn to him no less than to King Magnus. Harold was then in Tonsberg when he heard of the death of King Sigurd his brother and forthwith he had meetings with his friends who made up their minds to hold a howl thing there in the town. At that thing Harold was taken to King over half of the land and then was that called need-forced oaths whereby he had sworn away from his hand his father's heritage. Harold took court to him and made landed men and soon and host drew to him no less than unto King Magnus. Then fared men betwixt them and so it stood seven nights but whereas King Magnus got much lesser folk he saw nothing for it but to share the land with Harold and in such wise was it shared that each should have one half against the other of the realm that King Sigurd had had but ships and board array and precious things and all titles that King Sigurd had had King Magnus had yet was he the worst or pleased with his lot however for a while they ruled over the land in peace though each kept his councils much to himself. King Harold begat a son called Sigurd on Thora the daughter of Guthorn Greybeard King Harold Gat Ingegrid the daughter of Ragnavald who was the son of Inge the son of Steinkold King Magnus had for wife Kristin daughter of Canute Lord and sister of Voldemort the Dane King King Magnus grew not loving to her and sent her back south to Denmark and Sithons all went the heavier for him and Michael unthank Gat he from her kindred. Chapter two war between Harold and Magnus the kings when as they had been kings for three winters Magnus and Harold they sat both the fourth winter north in Sheeping and each gave other home bidding and yet was it ever at the point of battle with their folk but towards spring King Magnus sought with a ship host south around the land and drew to him folk all that he might and seeks of his friends if they would to get him strength here to to take her from his kingdom and to allow him so much of dominion as might seem good to himself and he sets it forth to them how Harold had a four time four sworn the kingdom King Magnus got here to the consent of many mighty men King Harold fared to the uplands and so by the inland road east unto Wick he also drew folk to him when he heard of King Magnus doings and where so ever they went each hewed the other's beasts and slew each other's men King Magnus was Mickelmore manned for he had all the main of the land for folk getting Harold was in the Wick on the east side of the Firth and drew folk to him and then each took from other both men and goods was then with Harold Chris Strahd his very mother's brother and many landed men were with him yet Mickelmore with King Magnus Harold was with his host at a place called the Force in Randrealm and went thence out towards the sea on the eve of Lawrence Wake they ate their meat at night whereas his called fur relief but the waters were a horseback and held horse guard always about the stead and therewithal were the waters where of the host of King Magnus that they fared now to the stead and King Magnus had nigh on sixty hundreds of men while Harold had but fifteen hundreds then came to watch and bear the news to King Harold and said that the host of King Magnus was come upon the stead Harold answers what may our kinsman King Magnus will never will it be that he shall will to fight with us then answers the old Stoff Allison Lord thou wilt have to make read for thee and this folk as if King Magnus will have been drawing and host together all the summer to this end that he will fight with thee so soon as he should find thee then stood the King up and spake to his men and bade them take their weapons if Magnus will fight there on was the blast blown and all the host of Harold went out from the stead into a certain acre garth and there set up their banner King Harold had two ring burnies but Chris Strahd his brother had never a burning he who was called the most valiant of men when King Magnus and his men saw the host of King Harold they arrayed their host and made so long an array that they might ring around all Harold's host so says Halder Gabler more nickel long gap Magnus the rank wing there he leaned on a many folk warm slaughter did cover up the meadow chapter three battle at fur relief King Magnus let bear before him the holy cross in the battle there was nickel battle and hard Chris Rod King's brother had gone with his company in the midmost array of King Magnus and huge on either hand and men shrunk the two ways before him but a certain mighty bonder who had been in the host of King Harold was standing at the back of Chris Rod and rear to loft his spirit to handed and thrust it through his shoulders and it came out through the breast of him and there fell Chris Rod then spoke many who stood by why he did that ill deed he answers now he wanted how that they hewed my beasts last summer and took all that was at home and had me perforce into their host such I minded for him erst if I might but get the chance there after that came flight into King Harold's host and he fled away himself and all his host then were fallen a many of King Harold's folk there get his bane wound Ingemar of Ask the son of Spine a landed man of King Harold's host and now 60 of the bodyguard so King Harold fled east into the wick to his ships and fared siphons to Denmark to find King Eric ever minded and besought him of a veil when they met south in sea land King Eric gave him a good welcome and the most for this sake that they had sworn brotherhood between them he gave to Harold Highland for maintenance and dominion and gave him eight long ships unrigged after that fared King Harold north over Highland and then came folk to join him King Magnus laid all the land under him after this battle he gave life and limb to all the men who were hurt and let 10 them as his own men for he called then all the land his and now he had all the best choice of men who were in the land but when they took counsel together then Sigurd Sigurdson and Thorir the son of Ingerid and all the wisest men would that they should hold the flock in the wick and abide there if Harold should come from the south but King Magnus took the other way with his willfulness and went north to Björgen and sat there through the winter and let the host fare from him and the landed men to their steds chapter four bonders give themselves into the king's power King Harold came to King's Rock with the host which had followed him from Denmark then landed men and towns folk had a gathering there before him and set their battle in a ray up above the town but King Harold went up from his ships and sent men to the host of the bonders and bad them that they should not battle him from his own land and gave out that he would claim no more than he had right to have and men fared betwixt at last the bonders gave up the gathering and went under King Harold's hand then gave King Harold for his hosting thiefs and grants to the landed men and bettering of rights to the bonders they who turned into the host with him after that much folk gathered to King Harold he fared by the east round the wick and gave good peace to all men save the men of King Magnus them he let rob and slay where so ever he came upon them and when as he came from the east unto Sarp's Burg then took he there to of King Magnus's landed men asked Bjorn to it and narrowed his brother and gave before them the choice that one should hang and the other be cast into the force of Sarp and bad them choose themselves betwixt them as Bjorn chose to fare into Sarp for he was the older and that death was deemed the grimmer and so was it done this howler gabler tell it ask Bjorn who held evil words with the king must needs be striding forth into Sarp wide feedeth the king the hawks of battle then King let hang up married upon the grim tree baneful of cigars bow paid scatterer of wave flame speech of house thing after that King Harold went north to tonsburg and there had he good welcome and michael host gathered to him chapter five of councils king magnus sat and Bjorn bid and heard these tidings then he let call to talk with him all such lords as were then in the town and asked them for read as to what wise things should be dealt with then answers to gird sigurdson here too cannot lay good read let man be a cutter with good men and true and get for a master there of me or some other landed man too fair to meet King Harold die kinsman and bid in peace according as right wise men here in the land may settle between you such that he shall have one half of the realm against thee and this seemeth likely that by the pleading of good men King Harold will take that bidding and that thus there will be peace betwixt you then answered king magnus i will not have this choice or of what avail was it that we won under our sway the whole of the realm last autumn if we shall now share away one half thereof give some other read here too then answers to gird sigurdson so me seems lord but now thy landed men sit at home and will not come to thee they who in harvest pray thee for leave to go home thou didst that then much against my reed to let drift so much that multitude which then we had for I deemed I wanted that Harold and his would seek back to the wick as soon as they should hear that it was lordless now is there another read toward and ill it is yet maybe it will do due to fair home thy guests and other folk with them against such landed men who will not now bestow them in thy need and slay them and give their goods to such as be trusted to thee though hitherto they have not been of much account let them whip up the folk have thou evil men no less than good and then fair east against Harold with what folk thou mayest get and fighting the king answered unbefriended will that be to let slay many great men and to heave up little men instead for they have off failed no less and the land where worse man than erst I will hear yet more read of thine sigurd answer now is reed giving growing trouble is to me in that thou will not make peace and will not fight fair we north then to Thrandheim where the lands might is most for us and take all the folk we may get on the way and perchance the elf grims will thus weary of drifting after us the king answered I will not flee before those whom we chased last summer so give me some better read then stood up sigurd and made him ready to go and said then I shall read the read which I see thou which hath and which will be followed sit here in Bjordvin till Harold come with our crowded host and then thou will have to throw either death or shame else and sigurd was no longer at this talk end of the story of magnus the blind and herald gilly part one chapter one through five section sixty seven of heim's kringra by snorri storelson translated by george pope morris and i recur magnuson this the bravox recording is in the public domain the story of magnus the blind and herald gilly part two chapter six through twelve chapter six of king herald's host king herald fared from the east along the land and had an all nickel host this winter was called throng winter king herald came to Bjordvin on yule eve and laid his host into floru bites and would not fight on yule for its holiness sake but king magnus let array him in the town he let rear a slaughter sling out in home and let make iron chains with wooden spars betwixt and lay them right a thwart the bite over from the king's garth to monk bridge on northness he let forge caught crops and scattered them about over unto john's meads and only three days in the yule tide were holed and holy from smith's work but on the outgoing day of yule king herald let blow the host to give way in yule tide nine hundreds of men had gathered to king herald chapter seven king magnus taken king herald be height to king olof the holy for victory to let do and olof's church there in the town at his own cost only king magnus set his battle in array out in christ's churchyard but king herald rode first over to northness but when king magnus and his saw that they turned up into the town and into bite bottom and as they fared up the street then ran many townsfolk into courts and to their homes but those who fared over unto the meads ran against the cow drops then saw king magnus and his folk that king herald had rode all the host over into hernwick and went there up on to the bents above the town then turned king magnus out along the street and then his host fled away from him some up into the fell others some up past none seat some into churches or they hid them in other places king magnus went on board his ship but there was no chance for them to fare away for the iron chains held them from without few men with all followed the king and therefore were they good for nothing so says in our scullison in herald's dropa the biog then wick week long they lockered for the surf's full steers was no departing a little thereafter words came king herald's men out aboard the ships and then with king magnus laid hand on whereas he sat aft in the foreroom on the high seat chest and with him hay con fork his mother's brother the fairest of men albeit not called wise but ivar son of ozer and many other friends of his were then laid hand on and some were slain straightway chapter eight the maiming of king magnus then king herald had a meeting with his council and bad them take read with him and at the close of this meeting it was settled to take magnus from kingdom in such wise that he might never thus forth be called a king so he was given into the hands of the king's thralls and they gave him maiming stung out his eyes to it and hewed from him one foot and at last was he gilded ivar son of ozer was blinded hay con fork was slain after this all the land was laid under the sway of king herald and then there was much seeking after those who had been the greatest friends of king magnus or who would most wot of his treasures or his precious goods king magnus had had the holy cross with him ever since the battle befell at their leaf and would not tell now where it was become rinald bishop of stavanger was an englishman and was called much wealth yearning he was a dear friend of king magnus and men thought it like that into his keep had been given much money and precious things so men were sent for him and he came to björg vinn and this privity was laid to his charge but he denied it and bade the ordeal there too king herald would not that but laid on the bishop to pay him 15 marks of gold the bishop said he will not make his sea poor by all that he will rather risk light syphons that hanged bishop rinald out on home on a slaughter sling and when he walked up to the gallows he shook the boot from his foot and said and swore with all i know of no more of king magnus wealth than what is in this boot and in it was a gold ring bishop rinald was laid in earth in michael's church on northness and this deed was much blamed after this herald was sold king over norway while he lived chapter nine wonders at king's rock five winters after the death of king sigurd great tidings befell at king's rock at that time were rulers there goo thorm the son of herald flutcher and seaman housewife who had for wife ingy björg the daughter of priest andress the son of bruney their sons were these paul flip and goonie fists seaman had a baseborn son height asmond andris son of bruney was a man of great mark he sang at christ's church so big height his wife with them was then at fostering and rearing john the son of lopped 11 winters old priest lopped the son of seaman the father of john was also there the daughter of priest andris and so big his wife height alga whom i know had to write now it befell at king's rock on the lord's night the next after Easter week that a great din was heard out in the streets throughout all the town like as when the king fares with all his court and hounds went on so ill that they might not be heated but broke out and all who came out became mad and bit all that was in their way man or beast but all that was bitten and that the blood came out of became mad and all creatures with young lost their birth and became mad hereof was minding well night every night from Easter unto ascension day then men were much adred of these wonders and many but took themselves away and sold their guards and went off to the country or else into some other cheaping towns and to all them who were wisest these things seemed of the greatest weight and they were afraid as for sooth it befell that this forwent some great tidings which were not come to pass but priest andris spoke long and deft on with sunday and turned his discourse to a close in such manner that he spoke about the trouble of the townsfolk any bad men harden their hearts and not to void that glory is stead but rather take heed to themselves and look to their reed to guard them as far as in them lay against all things fire and unpeace and to pray to them the mercy of God chapter 10 the beginning of the battle of king's rock out of the town 13 ships of burden were arraying them and were minded for Björgvin and 11 were lost with men and goods and all on board but the 12th was broken and men were saved but the goods lost then third priest lopped north to Björgvin with all his belongings and he had everything safe the ships were lost on the vigil of Lawrence Eric the dain king and archbishop ozer sent word both to kings rock and bad them there to be wary about their town said that the winds had a great host abroad and harried wide against christian men and ever had the victory but the townsmen laid over little mind on their affairs and gave the less heed to it and forgot it the more the longer time were on from that all which had come upon them but on the day of Lawrence wake when as high mass was being said came read a burr the when king to kings rock and had five hundreds and a half of when cutters and on every cutter were four and forty men and two horses done a miss height the king's sister's son and univer height a lord who ruled over much folk those two lords rode with some of the host up the east branch round hissing and so came down upon the town but some of the host they laid up the west branch to the town they made land out by the stakes and landed there the horse and they rode up over Brent ridge and so up around the town in our andres son-in-law brought these news up to castle church for there were the folk of the town and had all sought to high mass and in our came in when as priest andress was at his reading in our told men that and host fared upon the town with a many warships and some of the host was writing down over Brent ridge then said many that that would be Eric the dain king and people looked but for peace from him then ran all the folk down into the town for their goods and they weapon them and went down to the bridges and saw straight way that it was unpeace and and host not to be put to flight nine east fairing ships floated in the river off the bridges which Chapman owned and the winds laid these aboard first and fought with the Chapman the Chapman weapon them and fought long and manly there was the hard battle air the Chapman were overcome in this brunt the winds lost and a hundred and a half of ships with all hands while the battle was at its most the townsfolk stood on the bridges and shot at the heathen but when the battle slackened then fled the townsfolk up into the town and sithons all folk to the castle and men had with them their precious things and all the goods they could take with them so Vig and her daughters and two other women went up country when the winds had won the Chapman they went to land and can their folk and then was their escape clear some ran into the town other some aboard the Chapman and took all the goods which they would with them and next to that they set fire to the town and burnt it all together along with the ships after that they made for the castle with all their host and arrayed them to besiege it chapter 11 another battle king retiber let bid them who were in the castle to walk out and have their life and limb with their weapons and closing gold but all they whooped against it and went out on the Berg some shot some stoned some cast logs and then was nickel battle and then fell on either side but nickel more of the winds but so V came up to the homestead height sunberg and there told the tidings then was jeered the war arrow and sent to scurabaga there was a certain guild drinking toward and a many men there was that bonder who height over nickel mouth he leaped up straight away and took his shield and helm and a nickel axe in his hand and spake stand we up good fellows take ye your weapons and fare we to give help to the town's folk for that will be deemed ashamed by every man that here is there of if we sit here swilling us with ale while good men and true shall be laying their lives in peril on our behalf in the town many answered and spake against it said that they would time themselves and bring no help to the town's folk then leaped up over and said though all other dwell behind yet shall I fare myself alone and certs the heathen shall lose one or two for me or ever I fall so he runs down to the town men fare after him and we'll see his faring and also if they might help him somewhat but when he came so near to the castle that the heathen men saw him there ran against him eight men together all weapons but when they met the heathen ran round about him over reared up his axe and smote the forward horn thereof under the gin of him who stood at the back of him so that the jaw and the windpipe were smitten asunder and this one fell aback face up most then he swung the axe forth before him and hewed another on the head and clave him down to the shoulder then they shot at each other and he slew yet to and was himself much wounded and the four who were left fled there with over ran after them but a certain ditch was before them two of the heathen leaped there into and over slew them both and then he too stuck fast in the ditch but two heathen out of the eight got away the men who followed over took him and flitted him back with them to skirbaga and he was healed whole and that is men say that never has a man fared manly or faring two landed men segerd gerdson brother of philip and cigar came with six hundreds of men to skirbaga and their segerd turned back with 400 men and was thought sithons of little worth and lived but a short while but segerd fared with 200 men to the town and fought there with the heathen men and fell with all his folk the winds sought to the castle but the king and his captains stood without the battle on a certain stead whereas the wind stood was a man who shot from above and did a man to bane with every arrow before him stood two men with shields and sheltered him then spake semen to asment his son that they should shoot at the shooter both at once and i shall aim at him who bears the shield and he did so but that man shoved the shield before him then shot asmen between the shields and the arrow came on the brow of the shooter so that it came out of the nape and he fell back dead and when the winds saw that they all howled as dogs or wolves then let king reddaber call to them and bid them life and limb but they would have none of it sithons gave the heathen a hard onset there was one of the heathen men who went so nigh that he went right up to the castle door and thrust his sword at the man who stood within the door but men bore on him shot and stones and he was shieldless but so much cunning was he that no weapon bid on him then priest andris took hallowed fire and signed it and cut tinder and set fire there too and set it on an arrow point and gave it to asmen and he shot this arrow to the wizard man and so bit that shot that he had enough and fell dead to earth then let the heathen ill like as earth howled and gnashed then went all folk to the king and it seemed to the christian men that reed might be forward that they the heathen would get them gone therewithal wadded an interpreter who knew wendish what that lord said who is named uniber so specky this is a fierce folk and ill to deal with and though we take all the wealth that is in this place yet might we well give as much again that we had never come here so nickel folk have we lost and so many captains now first today when we fell to fighting with the castle they had for their defense shot and spears the next they beat us with stones and now they beat us with sticks like dogs so i see thereby that their stuff for warding them is drying up therefore we shall give them a hard brunt and try them so was it even as he said that there they shot logs but in the first brunt they had borne shot weapons not wrecking and stones with all but when the christian men saw that the much logs were menishing they hewed a twain each log but the heathen set upon them made a hard brunt and rested between wiles now on both sides men got weary and wounded and amidst of a lull the king let bid them life and limb and that they should have their weapons and clothes and whatsoever they could themselves bear out of the castle by then was fallen seamen housewife and that was read of men they who were left to give up the castle and themselves into the power of the heathen men and the unhandiest of reads was that whereas the heathen kept not their word they took all men carls queens and barons slew a many all that was hurt and young and seemed to them ill to flit after them they took all the wealth that was in the castle they went into cross church and robbed it of all its punishing priest andris gave king reddaber a staff done with silver and gilded and to done amiss his sister's son of finger gold whereby they deemed they wanted that he would be a man of rule in the stead and held him of more worth than other men they took the holy cross and had it away they took also the table which stood before the altar which kings ago had let do in greek land and had into the land but they laid it down on the grades before the altar then walked they out of the church then said to king this house has been wrought with nickel love to that god who this house owns but it seems this that little heath has been had of this dead or house where i see that god is wroth to those in whose keep it is king reddaber gave to priest andris the church in the shrine the holy cross the book planarium and four clerks but the heathen burnt the church and all the houses that were within the castle but the fire which they kindled in the church slaked twice then they hewed down the church and then it began to blaze all within and burned even as the other houses then fed the heathen with their war catch to their ships and can their folk but when they saw their escape then took they for war catch all the folk and shared it between the ships then priest andris fared aboard the kingship with the holy cross then came dread over the heathen from this foreboding that over the kingship came so nickel heat that they all deemed themselves night of burning the king that the interpreter asked the priest why that bit did he said that the almighty god in whom the christian men trod sent them a mark of his wrath in that they were so overbold as to lay hands on the mark of his passion they who would not trod in their own shaper and so nickel might go with with the cross that off before have but did such tokens to heathen men who have laid hands on it yay and some yet clearer the king let shove the clerks into the ship's boat and priest andris bore the holy cross in his bosom they led the boat forth and long of the ship and forward about the beard and aft along the other board to the poop and syphons shoved forks there at and thrust the boat away in towards the bridges syphons fared priest andris with the cross by night to sunberg and there was both storm and rain andris flitted the cross into safekeeping king reddaber and his host what was left there out fared away and back to wendland and many of the folk that had been taken in kings rock were for long afterwards in wendland in bondage but all they who were loosed out and came back to norway to their heritage became all of last thriving but the cheaping of kings rock has never syphons gotten such uprising as was urged chapter 12 of magnus the blind magnus who had been blinded fared syphons to nadois and but took him to a cloister and took monks raiment then much harness in frost it was made over to that cloister for his maintenance but the winter after herald ruled the land alone and gave peace to all men who would have it and took many men into his bodyguard who had been with magnus in our scullison says so that king herald had two battles in danmark one it have been the other by the less isle thou the toil eager dire of raven's mouth thou let us dawn men untrusty reddened thin edges neath high have it been and this with all thou high sarks hearty redner fight hats thou off the flat strand of the lessy there where gales blew the banners or the warriors end of the story of magnus the blind and herald gilly part two chapter six through 12 section 68 of heimskringla by snorrie stirrelson translated by george pope morris and ira ker magnuson this libra vox recording is in the public domain the story of magnus the blind and herald gilly part three chapter 13 through 18 chapter 13 of king herald gilly and bishop magnus king herald gilly was the most bounteous of men so it is said that in his days there came from iceland for bishops hallowing magnus inerson and the king was wondrous well with him and gave him great honor and when the bishop was out bound and the ship all bound he went to the hall where the king drank and greeted him dearly and hailed him the king welcomed him well and blithely the queen sat beside the king then spake the king lord bishop art thou now bound to depart he said that so it was the king spake thou didst not hit upon a good time whereas thou art come when the boards are up now there is not to give thee so worthy as should be for what is there to give the bishop the treasurer answered given away now we deem are all the precious things the king said there is yet left this board beaker here take that bishop there is wealth therein the bishop thanked him for the honor done him then said the queen fair hail and happy lord bishop the king spake to her fair hail and happy lord bishop what noble woman hurtest thou so speak to her bishop and give him naught she answers what is there to now lord the king said there is the bolster under thee siphons that was taken it was sheared out of paul and the dearest of things was that and when the bishop turned away the king let take the bolster from under him and said long have they been together siphons the bishop fared away and came out to iceland to his chair and then was it talked over what should be made of the board beaker for the most honor of the king the bishop asked for reed thereon and men said it should be sold and the worth thereof given to poor people then said the bishop of the reed will i take a chalice shall be made thereof here at this sea and thereover will i so say avail at him and i would that siphons all they the holy men of whom are holy relics in this church the holy would let it avail him whenever mass is sung over it and that chalice is there siphons at the stead skull halt and of the pieces of the paul that were drawn over the bolsters which the king gave the bishop there are they now made four song copes and are there still in skull halt in this matter may one mark king harrell's greatness of mind as in many other things though here there be but little written thereof chapter 14 the beginnings of segerd slimby deacon a man is named segerd who grew up in norway and was called the son of priest adelbrecht the mother of segerd was thor the daughter of saxie and wick and sister to segerd the mother of king olaf magnuson and kairi king's brother who had to wife borg hill the daughter of day eilison their sons were these segerd of eastort and day the sons of segerd were these john of eastort thorstein and andris the death john had to wife segerd the sister of king engie and of duke scully in his childhood segerd was set to books and he became a clerk and was hallowed a deacon but when he was full come to age and strength he was of all men the most valiantest looked and the strongest a michael man and in all prowess was he beyond all of like years and well not every other man in norway segerd was early a man michael masterful and brawling and he was called slimby deacon he was the good least of men to behold somewhat thin-haired yet well-haired now this came up before segerd that his mother said that king magnus barefoot was his father and so soon as he came to rule his ways himself he thrust aside clerkly ways and fared away from the land and in those fairings he dwelt a long while then arrayed he his ways to jerusalem and came to jordan and sought to holy relics as palmers are wont and when he came back he dwelt in cheaping voyages one winter he was stayed some while in the orc knees and was in the company of url herald at the fall of forkl fall stilling the son of summer lid segerd was also up in scotland with david the scott king and was held there of great account sythons fared segerd to denmark and that was his say and the say of his men that there he had flitted ordeal for his fatherhood and it bore it out that he was the son of king magnus and that five bishops had been there at so says ivar son of ingamund in the segerd balk made or deal or the shielding skin five bishops the foremost deemed so went the trial that of this mighty and bounteous king was magnus father the friends of king herald said it had but been the guile and lying of danes chapter 15 segerd in iceland that is said of segerd slumby that he had to do with chaffer fairings certain winters one winter he was in iceland and was that winter with thorgill's oddison in sourby and few men wadded who he was it betid in harvest when as weathers were driven into the fold and were had eye upon for slaughtering that as they were laying hands on the weathers one of them ran towards segerd as if it sought dither for help segerd reaches his hand towards it and lifts it out of the fold and lets it run up into the fell and said no more seek trust to us now than that trust shall to them be that befell also in the winter that a woman had stolen and thorgill's was wroth with her and would punish her she ran there for help whereas was segerd and he set her down on the dais beside him thorgill's bat him hand her over and tells him what she had done but segerd bad peace for her since she has come for help to me so forgive her her trespass thorgill said she should be pined therefore and when segerd saw that he would not hear his prayer he leaps up and drew his sword and bad him come on and when thorgill saw that he will ward her with fight the man seemed to him to be of nickel countenance and he mist doubted him who he might be and so for board to do ought to the woman and gave her peace more outland men were there and segerd made the least show of himself one day when segerd came into the chamber there was an easeman playing at tables with a home man of thorgill's and he was a man of nickel bravery of array and took much on himself the easeman called to segerd to give him read of the game he looked on it and said he deemed it lost now the man who played with the easeman had a sore foot and his toe was swelled and ran segerd sat down on the dais and drew a straw along the floor but kitlings were running about the floor he drawth ever the straw before them till it came over the man's foot but he sprang up and cried out with awe and the table was upset so now they fell through wrangling which had it for this reason is this told because segerd was deemed to have done a deaf trick not wanted men that he was learned till the wash day before Easter when he sang over water and all the more was thought of him the longer he tarried the next summer air they parted segerd said that thorgill's might send men to segerd slumby as one who knew him then answers thorgill's how far art thou from his kindred he answers i'm segerd slumby deacon the son of magnus barefoot there upon he fared abroad chapter 16 of guile against segerd slumby when herald had been king over norway for six winters segerd came to norway and went to see king herald his brother and met him at björg then and went forthwith to the king and made clear to him his fatherhood and that the king take him as kinsman the king gave no swift decision out on that matter but bear it before his friends and had talk and meetings with them but from their talk came that up that the king bear guilty at the hand of segerd concerning that how he had been at the sling of thorgill fosterer west beyond sea thorgill had followed king herald to norway then when he had first come into the land and he had been the greatest friend of king herald now this matter was followed up so fast that there was segerd cast for death and by the reed of land admin it came about that late of an evening certain guests went whereas was segerd and called on him to come with them and took a certain cutter and rode away from the town with segerd and south into northness segerd sat aft on that chest and thought over his case and mist doubted him that this would be some treason he was so arrayed that he had on blue breeches and a shirt and a mantle with cords for over cloak he looked down before him and had his hands on that mantle cords and whilst did it off whilst over his head but when they had come about the nests they were merry and drunken and rode at their utmost and took little heed of their ways then stood up segerd and went to do his easement overboard but the two men who were gotten to guard him stood up and went to the board with him and took the mantle both of them and held it before him as his want to be done with mighty men but whereas he mist doubted him that they had hold of more of his garments then gripped he each and either hand and cast him overboard with all that but the cutter sped far forward and it was a slow work for them to turn and long the tearing before they got their men taken up but segerd took such a long dive away from them that he was up a land before they had turned their ship after him segerd was of all men the swiftest of foot and he takes his way up land and the king's men fared and sought for him all night and found him not he lay down in a certain rock rift and grew much cold so he did off his breeches and cut a hole in the seat door and slipped it on and took his hands through and thus he helped his life for that while the king's men fared back and might not hide their misadventure chapter 17 treachery to king herald segerd thought he found that it would not help him to seek to find king herald and he was about in hiding places all through the autumn and early winter he was in the town of björgvin in hiding with a certain priest and laid plans if thereby he might be the scavenan of king herald and in these reeds with him were much many men and some who even then were of king herald's court and household but they had formerly been courtmen of king magnus but now they were in nickel good liking with king herald so that there were ever some of them who sat over the board with the king lucia mass in the evening talked together to men who sat there and one of them said to the king lord now have we put the decision of our quarrel to thy settlement for we too have each of us laid wager of an ask of honey i say that thou wilt lie tonight by queen ingrid thy wife but he said that thou wilt lie by thora the daughter of bu form then the king answered laughing and was much unwitting that this asking was of such nickel guile and said thou wilt not win the wager and thence from they deemed they knew where he was to be found that night but the head watch was then holding before that chamber wherein most folk thought was the king and wherein slept the queen chapter 18 the slaying of king herald sigurd slumby deacon and certain men with him came to the chamber where as the king slept and broke open the door and went in with drawn swords and ivar co bison first one work on king herald but the king had laid down drunken and slept fast and awoke there with that men were smiting on him and spake in his unwit sorely dealest thou now with me for she leaped up there at and said they deal sorely with thee who will be worse than i there lost king herald his life but sigurd with his men went away and then he let call to him those men who had behind him their fellowship if he should get king herald taken from his life days then went sigurd and his men aboard a certain cutter and men died them to the oars and wrote out into the bite unto the king's garth and then the day began to dawn then stood up sigurd and spake to those who stood on the king's bridges and gave forth the slaying of king herald at his hand and bade them take him to them and this with all to take him to king as behoved of his birth then there drifted the other on to the bridges of many of men from the king's garth and answered all as if they spake with one mouth and said that that should never be that they should give obedience and service to the man who had murdered his brother but if he were not thy brother then hast thou no kindred to be king they smote their weapons together and judged them all to outlawry and out of peace then was the king's horn blown and all landed men and all the bodyguard were summoned together but sigurd and his men saw that for their fairest choice to get them gone so then he went to north hoard land and had there a thing with the bonders and they went under him and gave him king's name fared he then into sagan and there had a thing with the bonders and there too he was taken to king fared he then north into the firsts and there he was well welcomed so says ivar engie munson took to the bounteous magnus son hordes and sognors when fallen was herald swore there are many men at thing to the king's son in his brother's stead king herald was buried at christ church the old end of the story of magnus the blind and herald gilly part three chapter 13 through 18 section 69 of heim's kringla by snorrie stirlson translated by george pope morris and ivar curr magnuson this livery vox recording is in the public domain the story of engie son of herald and his brethren part one chapter one through ten chapter one the beginnings of king's sigurd and engie engie rid the queen and with her the landed men and the bodyguard which king herald had had i read it that a swift cutter was arrayed and sent north to thrandheim to tell the fall of king herald and that with all that the thrandheim folk should take to king sigurd the son of herald who then was north there and seed gird the son of bard fostered him by queen engie rid fared forth with east into wick engie height a son of her and king herald who was a fostering there in the wick with amundi the son of gird the son of law bersey but when she and hers came into the wick a bored thing was summoned and there was engie taken to king then was he in his second winter due this reed turned amundi and theostalt son of ali and many other mighty chiefs but when the tidings came north to thrandheim the king herald was cut off from life then was taken to king sigurd the son of king herald and to that reed turned otar whiteling peter son of sheep wolf and the brothers guthon of rinir the son of asaul and otar bali and the many of other chiefs and under the sway of those brethren turned nigh all the folk and of all things mostly for this sake that their father was called holy on such terms was the land sworn to them that under no other man should it go while any one of the sons of king herald was yet alive chapter two of sigurd slimby deacon sigurd slimby deacon sought north beyond stodd and when he came into north mere there were come already letters and tokens of those counselors who had turned under obedience to the sons of king herald and there he got no acceptance or uprising but whereas he was himself a few folk he and his a reeded to shape their course forth randheim whereas he had already sent before him word and dither to his own friends and to the friends of king magnus who had been blinded and when he came to cheeping he wrote up into the river nid and they got their hozzers ashore at the king's garth yet had they to make off again for all the folk withstood him sithants they laid to home and there took out of the cloister magnus the son of sigurd against the will of the monks for he had hers taken monks hallowing but it is most men say that magnus came out of his own free will though the other tale was done for the bettering of his case sigurd hoped to gather folk hereby and so it turned out this was close after you baird sigurd and his folk down the first sithants sought after them beyond eagleson goonah of gimpsaw hall door sigurd sin as like haykinson and the brothers benedict and eric and the bodyguard which had hers been with king magnus and the many of other men they fared with their flock south about mir and all till off the mouth of romsdale there they sundered their company and sigurd slumby deacon fared west over sea straightway that winter but magnus fared into the uplands and looked for mikkel folk to him there which he got and he was there through the winter and all the summer through with all in the uplands and had then much folk but king engie fared against him with his band and they met there as it is height mouth there was mikkel battle king magnus had more folk so it is said that the all stoff son of ali had king engie and his kilt while the battle was and he went under banner and the old stoff came into mikkel need from toil and onset that is the talk of men that then king engie got the ill health which he had all his life after his back was knotted and one leg was shorter than the other and so little of strength that it was ill walking for him while he lived then turned the manfall onto king magnus men and these men fell in the first array hall door sigurd son and beyond eagles son do not have dimsar and a great part of king magnus host ere he would flee or ride away so says khali point storm was soared about roddest o king beneath the war helm in the eastward off the mouth there the ravens host get banquet and this with all before the king ring bounties would fairway on field there lay all his joys and warriors the fight deft king to heaven magnus fled then seized to goutland and so to denmark at that time was called sonison earl in goutland a mighty man and greedy magnus the blind and his men said wheresoever they came before great men that norway would lie loose before any great lords that would seek to it whereas there was no king over the land the sway of the land of men was over the land but all the landed men who first were taken to bear rule there over were now at odds with each other for envy's sake now in as much as earl khal was greedy of dominion and gave good ear to talk there of then gathers he folk and rides from the east into the wick and much folk went under him for fear's sake but when the astoff allison and amundi hear this then fare they to meet him with what company they could get and took king ingie with them they came upon earl khal and the host of the gouts east in crookshaw and had there another battle and king ingie won the victory there fell munnen augman's son mother's brother to earl khal augman the father of munnen was the son of earl orn the son of islet and the sigrid the daughter of earl fin the son of arning astrid the daughter of augman was the mother of earl khal many folk fell at crookshaw but the earl fled eastward out of the wood king ingie drove them all the way east out of his realm and there bearing was of the phallus so says khali tell shall I how the lord king reddened the bright wound ice rods in gout's wounds dive the raven the urn him filled unsell them those hardeners of the sword den who made the war full soothly were paid for all at crookshaw thy might indeed is proven chapter three warfare of danes to norway then sought magnus the blind to denmark defying king eric everminded and got good welcome there e bad eric to fare with him to norway if eric would lay the land under him and fare with a dain host into norway and says that if he comes with strength of host no man in norway would dare to shoot a spear against him here at the king shaped his mind and bad out and host and fared with 600 ships north into norway and in that journey were king magnus the blind and his men with the dain king but when they came into the wick they fared in some measure with peace and quietness along the east side of the first but when they brought their host to tonsburg there was before them a great gathering of the land of men of king engie waterworm daisyn brother of gregrie ruled most over them there the danes might not come up a land nor get for them any water and a many of their men were slain then they stood up the first for oslo and there was before them thea stoff allison so goes the story that they would let bear the shrine of hallward the holy out of the town in the evening and so many went there under as could find room yet got it born no longer than out on to the church floor but in the morning when they saw that the host came up on the west side of heady then form in board the shrine up out of the town but thea stoff and all the folk of the town followed the shrine chapter four the town burnt in oslo king eric and his folks sought up into the town but some ran after thea stoff and his folk thea stoff shot a boat at the man height askel who was a forecastle man of king eric and smote him under the jaw so that the point showed through the nape and a better shot thea stoff deemed he never had shot for not was there bear on him save only that the shrine of the holy hallward was flitted up into realm realm and was there three months thea stoff bared over realm realm and gathered folk through the night and came down to the town in the morning king eric let set fire to hallward's church and write about the town and burnt all up outright then came thea stoff down with nickel folk but king eric put off with his ship host and they might get a land nowhere on the northern side of the furth for the gatherings of landed men there and wheresoever they sought to go a land they left long five or six or more of them king ingie lay in horn borough sound with nickel folk and when king eric heard thereof he turned back south to denmark king ingie fared after them and laid hand on whatsoever of them he might and that is the talk of men that never was fared or were so faring into another king's realm with a nickel host and king eric liked mightily ill of king magnus and his men and deemed they had much mocked him whereas they had brought him on this faring and he gave out that he would not syphons be the friend of them such as he had been urged chapter five the warfare of sigurd slumby sigurd slumby deacon came that summer from west over sea to norway but when he heard of the unhapp of magnus his kinsmen he deemed he knew that he had little to trust in norway and so he sailed all outway south along the land and came forth into denmark and held into air sound but to the south of eri he came upon certain wind cutters and laid to battle with them and won the victory and ridded there eight cutters and slew many men but some he hanged he also had a fight at man with winds and had the day then held he from the south and hoe into elf the east branch thereof and there over came three ships of thoria have in nandority and olaf the son of herald halberd his sister's son the mother of olaf was ragnahill the daughter of magnus barefoot he chased olaf a land the east off was in king's rock and had gathered against him and the other held sigurd and they shot at each other and men fell on either side and many got wounded sigurd and his men got no up going there fell wolf headon son of sax off north countrymen of iceland and sigurd's four castle man sigurd put off again and held north into the wick and robbed widely he lay in poor terria in lemgoth side and relayed their ships that went to or flowed the wick and robbed them the tonsberg men made a host against him and came upon him unawares where sigurd and his were ashore sharing their plunder and some of the host came down on them and others laid ships afort the haven outside of them sigurd ran aboard his ship and rode out at them and the nearest ship was that of waterworm and he let back water and so sigurd rode out by them and got away in one ship the many fell of his folk therefore it was this son waterworm not well was in stoward there at poor terria chapter six the slaying of ben time sigurd slumby deacon sails sith and south to denmark and from his ship was lost a man called colbyne thor leotson of batald he was in the cock boat which was in tow of the ship but they sailed much fast sigurd wrecked his ship when he came south and he was in the winter at alaburg but the next summer fared magnus and sigurd with seven ships from the south and came to listy unawares by night and laid their ships aland there was before them ben time son of colbyne our court man of king ingy and the most doubthearted of men sigurd and his went up there in the lightning of the night and came unawares and took the houses on them and would lay fire in the stead but ben time got out into a certain bower with his war gear and well bedite of weapons and stood inside the door with a drawn sword and had a shield before him and a helm on his head and was ready to ward him the door was somewhat low and sigurd asked why they went not in but they answered that no one was eager there too but while they were in the height of their talk about this sigurd leaped into the house past him ben time huged after him and missed him and then sigurd turned upon him and but few blows they gave and took air sigurd slew him and bore his head out in his hand they took all the wealth that was in the stead and fared sithons to their ships but when king ingy and his friends heard of the sling of ben time and those colbyne sons sigurd and gird the brother of ben time the king made and host against sigurd and his and fared himself and took a ship from under hay con pungelta the son of paul and daughter's son of aslak the son of earling of soli who was the son of the mother's sister of hay con ma ingy chased hay con a land and took every wit of their baggage these fled away into the furred sigurd stork the son of eindred of gout dale and eric hew his brother and andris well shit the son of grim from this but sigurd and magnus and four-leaf skept sailed north by the outer course with three ships under haloga land and magnus was through the winter in birch aisle with vid con johnson but sigurd hewed off stem and stern of his ship and sheared rifts therein and sank it in the innermost eages furth but sigurd sat the winter through intent sound at him in the park called clutch furth in the upper part of the furth there is a cave in the birds there sat sigurd in his winter over more than 20 of them and built up the door of the cave so that it might not be seen from the foreshore these got sigurd viddled through the winter four-leaf skept and eindred the son of augment of sand and gudwin the daughter of eindred the son of arie of rick knolls this winter it is said that sigurd let fins make him two cutters up the first and they were sinew bound and had no nails therein and with these four knees and twelve men aside rode on each sigurd was with the fins while they made the cutters and the fins had ale there and made sigurd a feast there then sigurd sang this it was good in the fin cut while glad we were drinking and glad the king's son wandered twix benches game was not wanting at game some drinking thing glad and thing there where a land he was these cutters were so swift that no ships might overtake them on water even as was sung few things will follow the fur of the hallig's swift under sail is the sinew bound keel but in spring fared sigurd and magnus from the north with those two cutters which the fins have made and when they came to vagar they slew there the three spine and his two sons chapter seven the slaying of william the skinner sigurd held then south into wick and there they took william the skinner who was a land of man of king sigurd's and another was for all chaps and then both they slew then sigurd went south along the land and there came upon stir car glossy tail south off burda when as he feared from the south from chipping and him they slew and when sigurd came south to volceness he hit upon swine grim there and let hue from him his right hand then he fared south to mere outside of friend time mouth and took their head and hard moth and kelf kringle eye and he let head and go away but kelf they slew king sigurd and seed gird his foster father heard of the fairings of sigurd and what he was about so they sent out men to search for him and got for leaders there of john calder son of cal the wrong and brother to bishop ivar and another man with all priest john sparrow hog to wit they man the reindeer which was of two and twenty benches and of all ships the swiftest they fared to seek sigurd but found him not and fared back north with but little renown whereas men said thus that they saw them but durst not fall on them then fared sigurd south to hordeland and came to hurdler there had dwelling inar the son of lax paul but he had gone into hammer first to ganging day's thing they took all the goods that was at home and a long ship of five and twenty benches which inar had and a son of his four winter's old who lay by one of his workmen some would slay the lad but some would have him away with them the workman said it will be but little hap to you to slay this lad and no gain will it be that ye have him away for this is my son not inars and for his words they let the boy alone and fared away but when inar came home he gave to the workmen goods to the worth of two ounces of gold and thanked him for his doings and said he would be his friend ever after so says eric oddson who wrote this story for the first time that he heard in björgvin inar paulson tell the tale of these haps then sigurd fared south along the land and all the way east to the wick and hit on fin the son of sheep wolf east at kevild as he fared to call in the land dues of king ingie and let hang him sythons fared they south to dunmark chapter eight king ingie sends a letter the men of wick and of björgvin said it was unsamely that king sigurd and his friend should sit quiet north and cheaping even though his father's bansman fared the highway outside of frantime mouth and king ingie and his house sat east in wick and peril and warded the land and had had many battles then sent king ingie letters north to cheaping wherein there were these words to king sigurd his brother and seed gird and augman sweep and otar brightening and to all landed men and court men and house carls and all the all folk happy and unhappy young and old king ingie the son of king herald sendeth gods greetings and his to all men are known the troubles we have on hand in our youth with all in that thou art five winters old and i am but of three winters we too may bestow us in no matter but if we veil us of our friends and of good men now i and my friends deem that we are standing dire to the trouble and the need of both of us than thou or thy friends now do so well as too fair to meet me at thine earliest and as much demand as may be and let us be both together whatever may happen now he is our most friend who holdeth to this that we be ever most holy at peace and that we be holding in all things most equal but if thou hang back and choose not yet to stir at my word as afore thou hast done thou shalt look to this that I shall bear on thine hand with and host and then let God judge between us for we may no longer put up with things as they are to sit with so nickel cost and such multitude of men as he was needed for unpeace sake while thou takest one half of all land use and other incomings of norway living God's peace the speech of otar brightening then answered otar brightening and stood up in the thing and said this is the word of king sigurd that this be said to king ingy his brother that god thank him for a good greeting and for the toil and trouble that thou hast and thy friends in this realm for the need of us both now though some things in king ingy's words to king sigurd his brother be found somewhat hard yet has he a nickel cost for his say in many wise now I will make known my mind and hear whether the will of king sigurd and other mighty men follow therewith to it that thou king sigurd array thee with such host as will follow thee toward thy land and fare thou as much manned as may be to meet king ingy thy brother and when first thou mayest and let each of you strengthen the other in all matters happy and god both of you now will we hear thy words king Peter the son of sheep will flew afterwards was called Peter burden swing carry king sigurd to the thing then said the king let all men what that if I shall rule I shall fair to meet king ingy my brother when first I may but then one spoke after the other and though each began in his own way yet closed he his speech in one and the same manner as otar brightening had answered and then it was settled to gather and host and to fare east into the land sythens king sigurd went east into the wick and there met king ingy his brother chapter 10 the fall of magnus the blind the same harvest tide came sigurd slumby deacon and magnus the blind from the south from denmark with 30 ships both danes and northman and this was nigh to winter nights but when the kings and their hosts hear these tidings they fare east to meet them they met at home the gray in whale aisles the next day after martin mass which was sunday kings ingy and sigurd had then 20 ships and all big there was michel battle but after the first brunt the danes fled with 18 ships and home south and then were ridded the ships of sigurd and magnus and when the ship of magnus was much ridded and he was lying in his birth rider the son of grit garth who long had followed him and been his courtman took king magnus in his arms and was minded to run into another ship then was rider shot with a spear between his shoulders and there through and so say men that king magnus got his bane from that very same spear and rider fell back on the deck and magnus on the top of him and that sayeth every man that he may be deemed to have followed his liege lord well and dietly good is it for each who get it such good renown there fell laden sub proud of line stead on board king magnus ship and brucey the son of thormod a four castle man of sigurd slumby and ivar son of cobine and hallward the polisher a four room man of sigurd slumby this ivar was the man who went into king herald and first one stroke on him then fell michel deal of the folk of sigurd and magnus for the men of engie let none get away whom they could catch though i named but few men there too in one home they slew more than 60 men there were slain two men of iceland sigurd a priest son of burgthor the son of mar and clement the son of arie the son of inar ivar gout hank the son of cow the wrong who was sythens bishop north in thranton he was father of archbishop eric ivar had always followed magnus he got him into the ship of john cowder his brother who had to wife cecilia the daughter of gird bardson he was there of the host of king zingy and sigurd and these three got them into john ship besides ivar to it arne beorn ambie who sythens wedded a daughter of thorstein alzholt but the third was ivar dent the son of starry and brother to helgi the son of starry but a thrantowner by his mother's kindred and the goodliest of men but when the company was where they're of that they were there they gripped their weapons and went at john and his but they in their turn got ready for them and the whole host was at the point of fighting between themselves but they came to peace in such wise that john ransomed his brother ivar and arne beorn and hansel bailed for them and that money was given back to him sythens but ivar dent was led up a land and hewn down whereas the sons of coal mine sigurd and gird would take no money for him for they laid to him that he had been at the slaying of bantain their brother so said bishop ivar that that had so overcome him that it seemed to him the worst of things when ivar was led up a land under the axe and kissed them first and that they might meet hail again so told gudwin the daughter of burger and sister to archbishop john to eric oddson and she gave out that she had heard bishop ivar so tell end of the story of ingy son of herald and his brother in part one chapter one through ten