 Section 57 of Himes Kringle by Snorri Sterlson, translated by George Pope Mois and Ira Kerr Magnussen. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The story of Harold the Hard-Ready Part 7, Chapter 80-93. Chapter 80, Harold Godwinson, taken to King. The sons of Earl Godwin were then the mightiest men in England. Toasty was appointed captain over the host of the English king and was landward when the king began to fall into Elbe and was set above all other earls. Harold his brother was ever in the court and was the next man to the king in all service and had all the king's treasures to heed. That is men say that when it wore towards the death of the king Harold was then nigh about him and but few other men. Then Harold lauded over the king and said here too I call you to witness that the king gave me now the kingdom and all might in England. There upon the king was carried dead from the bed. The same day there was a meeting of lords where at was talked to should be taken to King. Then that Harold bear forth his witnesses that King Edward gave him the kingdom on his dying day. So ended that meeting that Harold was taken to King and was hallowed with King hallowing on the thirteenth day in Paul's church. Then all the lords of the land and all the folk yield him fealty but when his brother Earl Toasty heard this it liked him ill for he thought that he was no worse worthy to be King. I will said he that the lords of the land choose him for a king whom they deemed best fitted there too. And these words fared between the brothers. King Harold so said that he will not give up the kingdom in as much as he had been set down in the king's seat in that place which was the king's own and had been anointed sithons and King hallowed. Moreover all the might of the multitude turned towards him and he had all the treasures of the king to boot. Chapter 81 Earl Toasty met King Spine. Now when King Harold was where that his brother Toasty would have him out of the kingdom. He trod him but ill for Toasty was a very wise man a nickel warrior and well befriended among the lords of the land. So King Harold took away from Earl Toasty the host ruling in all power he had had before beyond other Earl's there in the land. Earl Toasty would in no wise fold it to be the servant of his own brother. So he fared away with his folk south over sea into Flanders and dwelt there a little while and then fared to Friesland and so that's to Denmark to find King Spine his kinsmen. But Wolf the Earl the father of Spine and Gita the mother of Earl Toasty were brother and sister. The Earl craved of King Spine help and men giving. King Spine bat him home to him and says he shall have an Earl's dominion in Denmark such as thereby he shall be a lord of worship there. But the Earl answered this am I yearning for to fared to England back to mine heritage. And if I get no strength there to from the King then will I rather lay this before thee that I give thee all the strength that I have to hand in England if thou wilt fared with the Dane host to England to win the land even as did Canute thy mother's brother. The King answered so much lesser man am I than King Canute my kinsmen that scarce may I hold the Dane realm for the Northmen. Canute the old owned Denmark of heritage and England by war and battle. Yet was that for a while not unlooked for that he might lay down his life there. But Norway he got without battle. Can I be mine me more measurely after my little matter than after the great deeds of Canute my kinsmen. Then spake Earl Toasty lesser becomes now my errand hither than I had weaned that thou wouldst let it be and thou such a noble man in the need of me thy kinsmen. Now maybe that I seek friendship thither whereas Mikkel am meter it is yet it may be that I may find that Lord who will blink less and much greater reads than thou doest King there upon King and Earl parted and were not the best of friends. Chapter 82 Toasty's journey to Norway so Earl Toasty wended on his way and came forth into Norway and went to see King Harold who was then in the wick. But when they met the Earl bore up his errand before the King telling him all about his journey from the time he fared from England and bids the King to lend him aid to seek his kingdom in England. The King answered thus that the Northmen would not be over eager to fare to England a warfare and to have there an English Lord to rule over them. Men say says he that those Englishmen there are not all trustee. The Earl answered whether is that sooth that I have heard men say in England that King Magnus thy kinsmen sent men to King Edward and that was in the word sending that King Magnus owned England no less than Denmark for taken heritage after Horde canute even as the oaths of them had stood there too. The King answered why then did he not have it if he owned it. Answered the Earl why hast thou not Denmark even as King Magnus had it before thee. The King answered the Danes have no cause to boast them against us Northmen for many a brand have we burnt on those kinsmen of thine. Then said the Earl if thou wilt not to tell me then will I tell thee for this cause did King Magnus make Denmark his own that the Lords of the land gave him aid that for this cause thou gats did not that all the folk of the land withstood thee. And therefore it was that King Magnus battled not for England but all the folk of the land would have Edward for King. Now if thou wilt make England thine own I may so do that the more part of the Lords in England shall be thy friends and furtherers for I lack not against my brother Harold save the King's name only. That what all men that know such warrior as thou has been born in the Northlands and that the seamoth wonderful that thou should have been fighting for Denmark these 15 years but will not have England which now lieth loose before thee. King Harold thought carefully over what the Earl said and understood that much of what he spoke was true and on the other hand was feigned to get that realm. Sithins King and Earl talked together long and off and they set this council between them that in the summer they should fair to England and win the land. King Harold sent word over all Norway and bat out a levy one half of the all men war muster. Now this was much be famed and many were the guesses how the journey would fare some folk spake and told the tale of all the great deeds of King Harold that this was not a matter beyond his dealing. But some said that England would be hard to seek to whereas the man folk thereof were an exceeding many and that host which is called the thing man host was so doubty that one man of them was of better avail than any two of the best men of Harold. Then answered Wolf the Marshal unload I get wealth ever no need unto the marshals of the King that they should turn them to the proud room of King Harold if two of us shall give back before one thing man only bright linen Brent I taught me other than that in youth days. That spring Wolf the Marshal died King Harold stood over his grave and spake as he turned away there from there now lies he who was the most faithful and the most beautiful to his Lord. In the spring Earl toasty sailed west of Flanders to meet the company that had followed him out from England and that other which had gathered to him both from England and there in Flanders. Chapter 83 the dream of Gerd King Harold's host gathered together at the Solend Isles but when King Harold was ready to put out from the doys he went first to the shrine of King Olaf and unlocked it and cut his hair nails and then locked the shrine and cast the keys out into the nid and the shrine of Olaf the Holy has never been unlocked sithons at this time were worn from his fall five and thirty winters and he lived thirty and five winters with all in this world. King Harold with the folk that followed him held self to meet his host there came together a nickel host so that men say how that King Harold had well now two hundreds of ships besides the dilling keels and small cutters. When as they lay amidst the Solend Isles dream that man who was aboard the King's ship and his name Gerd he thought he was there on board the King's ship and looked up to the island and saw where stood a nickel troll queen who had a short sword in one hand and a trough in the other. He thought with all that he saw over all their ships and that a foul sat on the prowl of each ship and it was all urns and ravens. The troll queen sang sure it is that the all wielder from the east is egged on westward to meet with many knuckle my game shall that be soothly corpse. Heathcock there may choose him his meet he was there waits and do stake from the Lord King's stem hawks unceasing their eye follow. Chapter 84 the dream of thord thord is a man named who was aboard that ship that lay a short way from the King's ship. He dreamed on a night that he saw the fleet of King Harold fair towards land and thought that he wanted that was England. On the land he saw a great array and thought that both sides were making ready for battle and had many banners aloft. But before the host of the landsmen wrote up nickel troll queen and sat on a wolf and had that wolf the corpse of a man in his mouth and blood fell about the chaps of it. And when he had eaten that man the troll queen cast another into his mouth and siphons one after the other but each one he gulped. She sang the bride of the brood of giants skathe full seas ill fair faded to the king and let's a red shield shine as it draws toward battle. Man's flesh the woman flingeth to yawning chaps mad fairing the queen the wolf's mouth dyeth all in ridley with man's blood. Chapter 85 King Harold's Dream Moreover King Harold dreamed on a night that he was at Nadois and met King Olaf his brother and he sang this song to him. Famed King the thick fought battle most conquering for the fame's sake a holy fall to earthward I got for that I at home sat. Of this I am still fearsome that King thy death beginneth God wields this knot thou fillest the steeds of the greedy troll wife. Many other dreams were then told another kind of foreboding's and the most were heart heavy King Harold ere he should fare from Thrandon had let take his son Magnus to King and when King Harold went away he set Magnus in kingdom in Norway. Thora Thoreburg's daughter was also left behind but Queen Elisif fared with him and her daughters Maria and Ingegerd Olaf the son of King Harold fared also with him from out the land. Chapter 86 King Harold's Westbound Journey But when King Harold was bound and fair wind fell he sailed out into the main and came in from the main to Higalt land but some of his hosts made the Orkneys. King Harold lay there but a little while before he sailed for the Orkneys and had with him thence a Mikkel host and the Earl's Paul and Earl and the sons of Earl Thorfinn and he left behind their Queen Elisif and their daughters Maria and Ingegerd. Thence he sailed south along Scotland and then along England and made land at the land which Hight Cleveland there he went to land and harried forthwith and laid the land under him and none withstood him. Thereupon King Harold made forth Scarborough and fought with the townsmen. He went upon the cliff that there is and let do there a Mikkel bale and laid fire therein. And as the bale was ablaze they took big forks and shot the bale down into the town took to burn then one house after another and then all the town gave itself up and there the Northmen slew many men and took all the wealth they could lay hold on. No choice there was then for Englishmen if they would have life but to go under the hand of King Harold so then he laid under him all the land where so he fared. Sithins King Harold went south along the land with all the host and made Holderness. There came a gathering against him and King Harold had battled there and got the victory. Chapter 87 of the Array of the Earls. Sithins fared King Harold into Humber and up along the river and laid there to land. Then were the Earls up in York Earl Moorkar to wit and Earl walked the off his brother with an overwhelming host. Then lay King Harold in the house when the host of the Earls came down on him. Then went King Harold aland and took to arraying his host. One arm of the array stood forth on the river bank while the other stretched inland towards a certain dyke. There was a thin deep and broad and full of water. The Earls let their battle array sink down along the river with all the host thereof. The King's banner was a nigh to the river and there was the array full thick but thinnest towards the dyke and that folk the least trusty. Then the Earls sought down along the dyke and that arm of the Northmen's battle that reached to the dyke gave way before them and the Englishmen sought forward after them and thought that the Northmen would flee. It was the banner of Moorkar that fared forward there. Chapter 88 The Slaying of Earl Moorkar. But when King Harold saw that the array of the Englishmen was come down along the ditch right against them he let blow the warblast and egged on his battles all eagerly and let bear forth the banner lands waster quicken the onset then so hard that all shrank before it and Michael Manfall was in the host of the Earls. Then speedily turned the host to flight something up along the river some down but the most part ran out into the dyke and so thickly there the slaughter that the Northmen could walk dry shot across the fin. There was lost Earl Moorkar as says Stein son of Hurdis. Much folk in the fin for Lorne was the sunken men were drowned. And few of your the lads lay all round about young Moorkar man's lord the flight draped forward to strong flight took the war host before the king the nimble Olaf high minded Watson. This dropper Stein son of Hurdis wrought on Olaf son of King Harold and here it is said that Olaf was in the fight with his father King Harold. This is told of also in Harold's stick lay a fallen down in Fen there wall the office people hewn by weapons so that the war wet Northmen might be going over on corpses only. Earl Walt the often what escaped of his host but up to the town of York and there befell the greatest man fall the battle was on the Wednesday next before Matthew mass. Chapter 89 of Earl Toasty Earl Toasty had come west away from Flanders to King Harold so soon as he came to England and the Earl was in all these battles. And now it came to pass even as he had told Harold before they met that up multitude of men drifted to them in England that work in and friends of Earl Toasty and that was to the King Michael strength of men. After this battle which is a force said all the folk of the country sides and I went under King Harold but some fled. Then King Harold said about his way to win the city and laid his ship host at Stamford Bridge. But whereas the King had won so Michael victory over great Lords and overwhelming odds all folk were afraid and deemed that hopeless to withstand him. Then made the townsmen that read for them to send bidding to King Harold to offer themselves to his wielding and the town with all. This was also bidden but on the Sunday the King went with all his hosts to the town and the King and his men said a thing without the town and the town's folks ought to the thing and all folk he said it to be under obedience to King Harold and gave him to hostage sons of high born men even according as Earl Toasty could with how to tell of all men in that town. So the King fared in the evening to his ships with victory self made and was right joyful. A thing was summoned in the town the times on the Monday there at King Harold died that stead with men of dominion and give right and thief. That same evening after sunset came up from the south toward the town King Harold Godwinson with an overwhelming host he wrote into the town by the grace and goodwill of all the people there. Then where all the town gates taken and all the way so that no news should come to the Northman this host was in the town night long. Chapter 90 the upgoing of King Harold on the Monday when King Harold had taken day meal he left low to land wending. Then he raised the host and deals the folk who shall fare and who be left behind. He let two men go up out of every company for every one left behind Earl Toasty rate him for the upgoing with King Harold he and his company but behind for the guarding of the ships were Olaf the King's son and Paul and Earl's of Orkney also Einstein Heathcock son of Thorberg Arneson who at this time was the most renowned and most dear to the King of all the landed men then had King Harold behind him Maria his daughter. The weather was wonders good and hot the sunshine the men left behind their burnies and went up with shields and helms and spears and Gert was swords. Many also had shot and bows and they were right Mary. But when they drew an out of town there wrote out against them a Michael host. So they the horse reek and they're under fair shields and white burnies than the King status host and that call to him Earl Toasty and asked what host that might be. The Earl answered and said he thought it most like that this would be on peace. But said that may happen these would be some kinsmen of his seeking from our same friendship and to get him a term trust in faith of the King. Then spake the King and said that they should keep quiet at first and spy the host. So did they and the near the host drew them or it was an all to behold as one ice heap whereas gleamed the weapons. Chapter 91 the reed of Earl Toasty then spake King Harold Sigurdson take we now some good read and wise whereas there is no hiding it that on pieces toward and it will be the King himself. Then answer the Earl that is the first thing to turn back at our swiftest to the ships after our folk and our weapons and then we will meet them to our most might or as to let our ships guard us for then shall their riders have no might over us. Then said King Harold other read will I have to set the swiftest horses under three brisk fellows and they to ride at their swiftest and tell our people and then speedily will come help from them for this reason that the Englishman shall have to look for the fiercest brunt from us or ever we bear the lower lot. Then spake the Earl and bad the King rule in this as in other matters and said with all that he was no wise eager for flight, then let King Harold set up his banner land waster and freerick height he who bear the banner. Chapter 92 of King Harold's battle array siphons King Harold arrayed his host he let his array belong and not thick then boat he the arms backward so that they met together and that was a wide ring and thick and even all round about without word shield by shield and so in likewise above. But the King's following was without word of the ring and there was the banner and up chosen company was that in another stead was Earl toasty with his company and another banner he had for this cause was it so arrayed that the King knew that writers were want to ride on in knots and forth with back again. Now says the King that his company and the company of the Earl shall go forth there whereas need is hardest and there too shall be our bowmen with us. But they that stand foremost shall set their spear tails into the earth and set their points before the breasts of the writers if they ride on us, but they that stand next let them set their spear points at the breasts of their horses. Chapter 93 of Harold Godwinson King Harold Godwinson was come there with an overwhelming host, both of writers and foot folk. Then King Harold Sigurdson wrote about his battles and scan the manner of their array. He sat on a black blazed horse and the horse fell under him and the King forward off him, but he stood up swiftly and said fall is very luck. Then spake Harold the England King to the Northman that were with him. Did you know that big man who fell off his horse there he with the blue curdle and the goodly helm. There is the King himself said they the England King said a big man and masterful of look, but the like for Lauren of luck. End up the story of Harold the hard ready part seven chapter 80 through 93. Section 58 of Heinz Gringla by Snorri Stirlson. Translated by George Pope Morris and Ivaker Magnusson. This the Bivox recording is in the public domain. The story of Harold the hard ready part eight chapter 94 through 106. Chapter 94 the Parley of the Kings. A score of writers of the host of the thing men wrote before the array of the Northman and were all burning and their horses with all. Then spake a writer whether is Earl Toasty in the host. The answer that is not to lane here will find him. Then spake a writer Harold thy brother send the greeting and these words with all that thou should have peace and all Northumberland. And rather than that thou should not fall into him then we'll need to give the one third of all his realm. Answer the Earl somewhat other bidding then on peace and shaming as in last winter. Had this been then bidden many a man would be alive now who now is dead and better would stand the kingdom in England. Now take out this choice but what will he bid to King Harold Sigurdson for his toil. Then said the writer said half he somewhat about it how much he would grant him of England seven foot room to it or so much longer as he is higher than other men. Then said the Earl bear you now until King Harold to make ready for battle. Another thing shall be told forsooth among the Northmen then that Earl Toasty should fare away from King Harold Sigurdson and enter the flock of his unfriends when as he has to fight west in England. Nay rather shall we all take one read to die with honor or get England by victory. There upon the night's road back then King Harold Sigurdson spoke to the Earl who was the smooth spoken man said the Earl that was Harold Godwinson. Then spake King Harold Sigurdson too long was this hidden from us they were come so nigh unto our host that not would this Herald have known how to tell the death word of our men. Then said the Earl true is that Lord such a chief went right unwarely and well might it have been as thou sayest that saw I that he would bid me peace and nickel rule but that I might be his bansman if I told him and I will rather that he be my bansman than I his. Then spake King Harold Sigurdson to his men a little man was this but stiff he stood in the stirrup. So say men that King Harold Sigurdson sang this did he forth go we and folk array all Bernalus beneath blue edges shine out the helms mine have I not now lie our shrouds on ships down yonder. Emma height is Bernie it was long so that it took him to mid leg and so strong that never had weapon fastened on it. Then spake King Harold Sigurdson this is ill sung a behooveth to make another song better than saying he this we creep not into shield bite before the crash of weapons and battle. Ian so bad me the word fast till the hawk field the pole of jewels bad me a four time bear the helm staff high mid the dinner metal whereas a locks ice and skulls me then saying the adult although the king his own self fall unto field not shall I from the King's young airs be turning things go as God may will it the sun shines on no clear King's delt then is of them twain the avengers of that herald swift ready our Hawks doubly. Chapter 95 beginning of the battle. Now even up the battle and the Englishman fall a writing on the Northman hard were they taken to and unhandy it was to the Englishman to ride on the Northman because of the shot. So they wrote round about them at the first it was a loose battle while yet the Northman held well their array and the English wrote hard on them and straight away from them when they got nothing done. Now when the Northman saw that and them seemed that they were written on softly they fell on them and would drive the flight. But when they had broken the shield bird then wrote the Englishman upon them from all sides and bore on them spears and shot. Now when King Harold Sigurdsson saw that he went forth into the battle whereas most was the weapon brunt there was then the hardest of battles and fell much folk on either side. Then was King Harold Sigurdsson so would that he leaped right out from the ranking and huge with both hands and that held before him nor helm or burning. Then all they who were nice him fled away and it was a near thing but the Englishman would flee. So says honor the Earl's scald the King help shy before him bear no small breast in helm din nor quavered the fight nimble heart of the King. There whereas the bloody sword of the brisk one the beater down of King folk for her sirs need bit or use men saw that in the battle. Chapter 96 the fall of King Harold Sigurdsson King Harold Sigurdsson was smitten in the throat with an arrow and that was his bane soar. Then felt he and all that company which had gone forth with him save them who shrank a back and these held the banner yet was there still the hardest of battles. Then went oral toasty under the King's banner then fell either side to rank them a second time and then was there a state of the battle for a long while. Then sang the adult the folk have paid ill tribute the hosts in peril say I needless bad Harold people this journey from the eastward the King but praise divided the escape of life and so close the life of the King the nimble that hard bested are all we. But there the battle joined again King Harold Godwinson offered peace to oral toasty his brother and those other men who were yet left alive of that Northman's host. But the Northman whooped out with one voice and said that they would fall each a thought the other sooner than take peace of Englishman and there with they whooped the war loop and a second time the battle was joined as says honor the Earl's scald. The death of the King the dreadful and gainful was the spear points with gold in woven spared not the luller of the robbers all men of the bounteous King's host by much they chose to fall their round the fight nimble leader then take them peace then forward. Chapter 97. Heathcock's brunt at this nick of time. I stein. Heathcock came from the ships with what host followed him. They were all Bernie then get I stein King Harold banner land was too. Now there was a battle for the third time and the hardest of all it was fell then much English folk and were on the very point of taking to flight. This fray was called Heathcock's brunt. I stein and his had gone so exceedingly from the ships that they were so mythored that they were well now undone before they came to the battle. But syphons they were so would that they shielded them not while they might stand up at last they cast off their ring burnies and then it was easy for the English to find healing steds on them. But some of them burst all together and died unwanted. There fell now all of the great men among the Northman. This befell at the latter end of the day. It was as was to be looked for that it was not even with all men. Many fled away. Many also were they who got away by sundry turns of good luck. And it fell murk of the evening or ever all the man slaying had ended. Chapter 98 of Sturcar the Marshall. Sturcar the Marshall of King Harold Sigurdson a most renowned man came away. He got him a horse and so rode away in the evening. A wind sprang up and the weather grew somewhat cold and Sturcar had no more raiment than a shirt, a helm on his head and a naked sword in his hand. He grew cold as his weariness wore off. There met him on the road a certain rain car in a lined coat. Then said Sturcar, will thou sell the doublet Bonder? Not to thee, I weaned, says he, thou wilt be a Northman. I can thy speech. Says Sturcar, if I be a Northman, what wilt thou then? The Bonder answered, I would slay thee, but now so ill it goes that I have no weapon there too. Then says Sturcar, if thou mayest not slay me, I shall try it if I may not slay thee. And therewith he heaved the sword aloft and set it on the neck of him so that off went the head, and then he took the skin coat and leaped on his horse and hide down to the strand. Chapter 99 of William the Bastard. William the Bastard, the Ru'al Earl, heard of the death of King Edward his kinsman, and that was all that Harold Godbrenson was taken to King in England and had taken King Hallow. But William deemed himself a better title to the kingdom in England than Harold, for King Sake tweaked him and King Edward, and with all he deemed he had to pay Harold for that shaming, whereas he had broken off the betrothal to his daughter. So by reason of all these things together, William drew together and hosed in Normandy and had a right nickel multitude of men and foists and of ships. The day he rode out of the city to his ships and was come on to his horse, his wife went up to him and would to speak with him. But when he saw that, he kicked at her with his heel and drove the spur against her breast so that it sunk deep in, and she fell and got her death worth with. But the Earl rode off to his ships and fared with the host out to England. In his company was Bishop Otto, his brother, but when the Earl came to England he harried and laid the land under him wheresoever he went. Earl William was bigger and stronger than any other man a good night, the greatest of warriors, and somewhat grim-hearted, the wisest of men but accounted untrusty. Chapter 100 The Fall of King Harold Godwinson King Harold Godwinson gave leave to Olaf, the son of King Harold Sigurdson, to fare away together with the company that still kept with him and had not fallen in the battle. But King Harold turned away with his army into the southern parts of England, for he had then heard that William the bastard fared from the south upon England and laid the land under him. With King Harold there were then his brothers Fein, Gerd, and Walthyoth. The meeting of King Harold and Earl William befell in the south of England at Helsingport, and there was a great battle. There King Harold fell and Earl Gerd, his brother, and a great deal of their host. That was nineteen nights after the fall of King Harold Sigurdson. Earl Walthyoth, the brother of Harold, got away by flight, and late in the evening Earl met a certain company of William's men, and when they saw the folk of Earl Walthyoth, they fled away into a certain oak wood, a hundred of them together. Earl Walthyoth lay fire in the wood and let burn all up together, so says Thoracal Scolison in Walthyoth's flock, that there the egg of battle and the hundred kings' own warriors burned up in that hot fire. To the men a night of singeing, it is heard that there the men lay, neath claw of steed of Troll Queen, the dusky steed of Alder, gat feast of the Frankman's corpses. Chapter 101, The Slaying of Earl Walthyoth. William let take him for King in England. He sent word to Earl Walthyoth that they should come to peace, and gave him safe conduct to that meeting. The Earl went with but few men, and when he came upon the heath to the north of Castlebridge, there came against him to King's bailiffs with a company of men, and took him and set him in fetters, and Sithons was he hewn down. The Englishman held him for holy, so says Thoracal. William, that reddens metals, who cut the main seat from southward, has braided brave Walthyoth in his trusting. Suth is that late will, leave now slaying of men in England, no greater Lord there dived than was my Lord of Forton. Sithons was William King in England for one and twenty winters, in his offspring ever after him. Chapters 102 and 103, the journey of Olaf Harrelson from England. Olaf, son of King Harrel Sigurdson, held his host away from England and sailed out from Raven's air and came in the autumn to the Orkneys. And there were the tidings toward that Maria, the daughter of King Harrel Sigurdson, had died suddenly that same day, an hour that her father, King Harrel, fell. Olaf dwelt there through the winter, but the next summer Olaf went east to Norway and was then taken to King together with Magnus' brother. Queen Eliseth went from the west with her stepson Olaf, an ingregor, her daughter, then too came with Olaf from west over at the main sculley, who was called Sithons the King's fosterer and Kettle Crook his brother. They were both noble men and of high kin of England and both exceeding wise, they were more over both of them of the dearest to the king. Kettle Crook, fair north into Halogaland and King Olaf got him there, a good wedding and from him is come a many great folk. Sculley the King's fosterer was a wise man and of Mickelster and the goodliest of men to look upon, he became the captain of King Olaf's bodyguard and spake at things and ruled with the king in all land ruling. King Olaf offered Sculley to give him that folkland in Norway which he might deem the best with all such incomings and dues as belonged to the king. Sculley thanked him his offer but let him know that he would rather ask of him other things for this reason that if there be a change of kings maybe the gift shall be undone but I will, says he, take with thanks certain lands which lie and I do those cheaping steds where ye, Lord, are want to sit and take yield feasts. The king said, yea, to this and made over to him lands east by King's Walk and by Oslo by Tonsberg, by Borg by Bjorg, then and north by Nadoys. These were well nigh the best lands in each stead of these and these lands have belonged ever since to those kinsmen which have come from Sculley's kin. King Olaf gave him in marriage his kinswomen Gudrun the daughter of Nefstein her mother was Ingegird the daughter of King Sigurd Sø and Osta and Ingegird was the sister of King Olaf the holy and of King Harold the son of Sculley and Gudrun was Asaaf of Riney who had wife Thora the daughter of Scopty son of Augmund the son of Asaaf and Thora was Gudrun of Riney the father of Bard the daughter of King Inge and of Duke Sculley Chapter 104 the body of King Harold brought from the west one winter after the fall of King Harold his body was brought from the west out of England and north to Nadoys and was laid in earth in Mary church the one he had let due it was the talk of our men that King Harold had been beyond other men in wisdom and deft read no matter whether he should take us swiftly long some a read for himself or for others he was of all men the boldest under weapons victorious was he with all even as now has been written this while so says the adult all dowdy waster of biters the sealant broke his boldness heart ruleeth half the victory of men sooth Harold proves it King Harold was a goodly man and noble to behold bleak-haired and bleak-bearded his lip-beared long one eyebrow somewhat higher than the other large hands and feet that either shapely waxed him five L's was the tale of his stature to his own friends was he grim and vengeful for art done against him so says the adult the king reed heeding pinyeth his thames for fierceness proven he thinks the king's men bear but that which they wield their own selves sword sharers have such burdens as for themselves they bind up so share with Harold pinings that each brooks truth against other King Earl was one of the most eager for might and for all manner of good gain he was much giftful to his friends them who him liked well so says the adult wakener of galley's battle that give me for my song work a mark he lets deservings be wielders of his favor King Harold was 50 years old when he fell no tales of mark have we about his growing up till he was of 15 winters even when he was that sticklisted in the battle along with King Olaf his brother but syphons he lived for five and thirty winters but all that while never without uproar and unpeace King Harold never fled from battle but he often sought to save himself in face of overwhelming odds when he had to deal with their with all men said this they who followed him in battle and all were for that when he was bestowed in nickel peril and it came suddenly on his hands that reed would he take up which all men saw thereafter was the one of avail chapter one hundred and five man pairing between kings Harold and Olaf Halder the son of burn me off the old the elephant was a wise man and the great lord he spake thus when he heard the talk of men that they much misquared the minds of the two brother King Olaf the Holy and King Harold thus said Halder I was with both brother and Michael good liking and the minds of both were known to me found I never to men more like of mine shape both were the wisest and the most weapon bold of men eager for wealth and might masterful not the people's men rulesome and pinesome King Olaf broke down the land folk to christening and the right belief but he punished grimly them who turned deaf ears there too the lords of the land would not full of him just doon an equal doon but raised up against him and host and felt him on his own land and for that he became holy but King Harold harried for his own renown and dominion and broke down under him all folky might and fell on another king's land both these brother were in every day's manner men of religion and of noble bearing they were also widefaring and men nickel of toil and became of such things far famed and highly renowned chapter 106 the death of King Magnus King Magnus son of Harold ruled over Norway for the first winter after the fall of King Harold Scythons he ruled the land for two winters along with King Olaf his brother then were both King's Magnus had the northernmost of the land Olaf the easternmost King Magnus had a son Hyde Haekon him fostered Steig Thoru he was the most hopeful of men now after the fall of King Harold Sigurdson's vine the Dane King claimed that peace was sundered between Northmen and Danes told that peace had been set no longer than while they both lived Harold and Scythons so there wasn't outbidding in either kingdom the sons of Harold had out before the coasts of Norway and all folks host both of men and ships but from the south King's vine with the host of the Danes and now messengers fared between the two bearing message of peace said the Northmen that they would either hold to the same peace which before was made or otherwise they would fight therefore this was Olaf is land warded with words of war and peace speech such wise that no all will dursley are claimed there unto so too says Steinsen a herdess in Olaf's dropout at Nidois where lies sleeping the holy king will the fight stern forbid King's vine his airship for as smoothly as he mighty Olaf the king the seamoth will love his kindred highly not need wolf's air be claiming the land of Norway in this summoned hosting was atonement may betwixt the kings and peace betwixt the lands king magnus fell sick of the ringworm plague and lay bed a while and died at Nidois and was laid in earth there it was a king well beloved of all folk in the the story of Harold the hard ready part 8 chapter 94 through 106 section 59 of hymen's by snorri stirrelson translated by George Pope Morris and I recur Magnuson this the box recording is in the public domain the story of Olaf the quiet chapter one of Olaf the quiet Olaf was king alone over Norway after the death of Magnus Olaf was a man Michael of growth all wise and well that is the say of all men that never a man has seen one goodlier or more stately to behold he had yellow hair like silk and wondrous well fashioned a bright body the best died of men well lend few spoken oftenest and at things no talker marry at the ale a nickel drinker fond of privy talk and sweet spoken peaceful with all while his kingdom stood this stein the son of Hurtus tells of the edge bold king of Thrandfolk all lands will lay in peace now with full enough of wisdom to men folk well to the folks mind tis that the start heart the hour of the English bows down his things to peace ways a nickel deal the best born chapter two the high seat set up afford the dais that was the ancient want in Norway that the kings high seat was midst of the long dais and ale was born over the fryer the king Olaf was first let do his high seat on the high dais afford the hall he also was the first to build halls with ovens and to the straw the floor in winter as well as in summer in the days of king Olaf the cheaping steds of Norway hold up much and some were set up from the beginning king Olaf set up cheaping sted in Björg Vinn and there right soon was a seat of wealthy men and the sailing thither of Chapman from other lands he let rear from its ground sill Christ church the great stone church but little was done of it but he let finish the wooden church old Christ church to it king Olaf let set up the great guild at Nadois and many others in the cheaping towns but formerly there were turnabout drinkings then was town boon the great bell of the turnabout drinking in Nadois the drinking brothers let build their margaret stone church in the days of king Olaf arose scott houses and parting drinks in the cheaping towns and then men began to take up fashions wearing pride hosen lace to the bone some clasped golden rings around their legs and then in war drag curdles lace to the side sleeves five L's long and so straight that they must be drawn by an arm cord and truss doll up to the shoulder high shoes with all and all sewn with silk and some embroidered in gold many other new fangled fashions there were chapter three of the court customs of king Olaf king Olaf had these court customs to it that he let stand before his board trencher swains and they poured to him in board beakers and also to all men of high estate who sat at his table he had also candle trains who held up candles before his board and as many of them as men of high degree sat up there out away from the trapeza was the marshal's stool there sat the marshals and other were these looking up the hall towards the high seat king herald and the kings before him were want to drink out of deer horns and to bear ale from the high seat cross the fire and to drink a health to whom so they chose so says stuff the scald I knew the victory happy wetter of fight me welcome from good wind of the troll queen best was he of acquaintance when as the blood stares feeder grim under rings went eager himself with horn to gilded at how to drink unto me chapter 4 of the number of the king's body guard king Olaf had 100 of court men and 60 guests and 60 house carls such as should flip to the guard what so was needed or were other matters which the king would but when the bonders asked the king why he had more folk than law was there too or then former kings had had when as he fared to banquets which the bonders made for him the king answered in no better way may I rule the realm nor is there any more terror from me than from my father though I have half as much again a folk as he had and no wise thereby shall penalties come from me nor am I minded to make you a lot any wise heavier chapter 5 the death of king's fine wolf son king's fine the son of wolf died of sickness ten winters after the fall of the heralds next after him was herald home his son king in Denmark for four winters then canute the son of spine for seven winters and is a saint holy proven then Olaf the third son of spine for eight winters then Eric the good a fourth son of spine for yet eight winters king Olaf of Norway got to wife ingrid the daughter of spine the dain king but Olaf the dain king son of spine got ingrid the daughter of king herald and sister to king Olaf norways king Olaf heralds him whom some called Olaf the quiet and many Olaf bonder begat a son on Thora the daughter of Joan who was named Magnus that lad was most fair to look upon and right manly like he grew up at the king's court chapter 6 miracles of king Olaf king Olaf let build a stone minster at the doys and set it in that stead where first had been laid in earth the body of king Olaf and the altar was set over there as the grave of the king had been there was hallowed Christ's church and then the shrine of king Olaf was flitted dither and set up over the altar and there be felt many miracles straight way the next summer on the same day as the church had been hallowed the year before there was a right great and on the eve of Olaf's wake a blind man got his sight there but on last day itself when as the shrine and the holy relics were born out and the shrine was set down in the churchyard as the want was a man get his speech who for a long time had been dumb and sang then praise to God and the holy Olaf with nimble turn of tongue a third man there was a woman who had sought dither from east away from Sweden and had in that journey fold by reason of blindness yet she trusted in God's mercy and came fairing dither to this high tide she was led blind into the minster that day at mass but or ever the hours were done she saw with both eyes and was keen of sight and bright eyed though urged she had been blind for fourteen winters and in exalted joy she left that place after seven of the shrine of king Olaf then this befell in the dois as the shrine of king Olaf was born down the street so heavy the shrine grew that men might not bear it forth from the stead and so the shrine was set down and the street was broken up and it was sought what was under there and there was found a barren's body which had been murdered and hidden there and the street was mended again as it had been before and the shrine was carried on in the wanted way chapter eight of king Olaf's peaceful ways in the days of king Olaf there was right good year in Norway and manifold plenty and through no man's days since herald hair fair was king had there been so good seasons in Norway as through his softened down many of the ordinances which his father with masterfulness had set up and holding he was bounteous of wealth but he held fast his rule and all through his wisdom and this with all that he saw what was of gain to his kingdom and best and many of the good works of his tutela herein may we mark what his goodness must have been and how beloved of his people he was whereas he spake on a day in the great guild and he was merry and of good heart then spake his men it is a joy to us lord that thou art so merry he answered now shall I be merry when I see glee on my people and freedom and I sit in the midst of the guild which is hallowed to the holy king Olaf my father's brother in the days of my father this people lived amidst great turmoil and most men hid away their gold and good things but now I see shine on every man what he had and your freedom is my glee now for Sue throughout his days all was quiet from battles and he wrought peace for himself and his people of the outlands and yet his neighbors stood in great awe of him though he were meek of mind even as the skull says his land so warded with words of awe and peace speech that never an all wielder durst lay acclaimed their unto chapter 9 of king Olaf and canute the dain king king Olaf was a friend of canute the dain king and king canute fared to meet him and they met in the elf where from of old had been the tristing place of kings talks then king canute he would that they should make an host west of england such matters as they had to avenge king Olaf to begin with and the kings of danmark moreover so now do thou one of two things says king canute either let me fetch thee 60 ships and thou be captain of that host or else fetch thou to me 60 ships and I shall be captain thereof king Olaf answered the matter whereof thou speakest king canute falls in with my mind but much uneven it is ye kinsmen have born more good luck here too to win england by valor witness king canute the rich so now it is most like that that goes with the race of you but when king herald sigurds and went to england he fetched his bane and so wasted was Norway of the best men that like there has been no choice sithons in the land that journey was arrayed in the bravest wise yet now it turned out as ye whisked now can I to mind of my matter how much more I fall short to be captain hereof so thee will I choose and that thou fare back by my string and he fetched him 60 big ships with brave array and trusty crews and set of his land of men there over and it was said that in a lordly fashion all that host was found in the story of canute it is said that the northmen alone break not the hosting when it was come together but the danes abode not wherefore canute held the northmen in good account therefore and gave them leave to fare of cheaping wither so ever they would and sent to the king of Norway glorious gifts eight but he laid on the danes his wrath and Mikkel money finds chapter 10 of a soothed sayer he came to pass on a summer when king Olaf's men had fared together in his land do's that the king asked them where they were best welcomed they said it was in one of the king's folk lands there said they is a certain ancient bonder who knows many things before hand and we have asked him of many and he has unraveled the same and deem we that he knoweth the voice of fowl the king spake with what very this is but Mikkel folly but on a time it befell that the king was faring along the land and spake as they were sailing through certain sounds what country side is here up a land they answered this is the folk land lord whereof we told thee that here we were best welcomed said the king what house may it be that standeth here by the sound that house oneth that wise man of whom we told thee but they saw a horse beside the house and the king said go ye now and take the horse and slay it they say not will we lord to do as gave the king said I shall rule cut ye the head off the horse and let the blood not fall down and bring the horse aboard my ship bear there after to fetch the carl and tell him nothing and thereon your lives shall lie sithin so do they and tell the carl the king's message and when he met the king the king said who owns the land on which thou dwellest thou onest it lord and take his rent thereof then said the king tell us the way past the land it will be known to thee he did so but as they rode flew a crow forth past the ship and went on evilly the bonder looked thereon and the king spake thinkest thou there be ought to heed therein ye certs lord says he therewith flew another crow over the ship and screeched therewith the bonder he did no longer the rowing and the ore became loose in his hand then said the king much thou bodest of that crow bonder or of what it saith the bonder said lord now it misgiveth me thereof a third time there flew a crow and went on first of all and kept deny the ship the bonder stood up there against and he did not rowing the king said of mickle wait thou demist this bonder or what does she say now the bonder says that which it is unlike I should want or she said the king out with it then sang the bonder the yearling says it knows not she the twinter says it I throw with none the more the three year old saith it says I am rowing or a mare's head and that thou king be thief of my goods spake the king what now bonder wilt thou call me a thief then the king gave him good gifts and gave him up all his land dues so says stein kin prop of kings the bounteous giveth the ships high burning and round ships stained gain says he the niggardness within him the folk the wealth and joy of Olaf search king other who such fee to man giveth Olaf high minded what's him the gold free king point redner the folk with rings he gladdens the lord of men he leteth be feign of gifts the bench throng the nimble king of norway giveth to northmen bigly bounteous is england's waster a mickle deal the best born the kin great king to men giveth such store of helms and burnies as if not worth he deemed them such gear the king's guard decketh the worthy king he leteth the lads take heavy half's gear from him thus wise the lord king his guard their toil rewarded chapter 11 the death of king Olaf king Olaf sat often in the countryside at his big steds which he owned but when as he was east in ran realm at Hockby his stead he took that sickness which brought him to bane at that time he had been king over norway for six and twenty winters but he was taken to king one winter after the fall of king herald the body of king Olaf was flitted north in his dois and laid in earth at christ church which he himself had let build he was a king most well-beloved and norway had greatly waxen in wealth and beauty under his rule end of the story of Olaf the quiet section sixty of heim's cringla by snorrie stirrelson translated by george poke morris and iraq magnuson this the bravox recording is in the public domain the story of king magnus barefoot part one chapter one through fourteen chapter one the beginnings of magnus barefoot magnus son of king Olaf was straightway after the death of king Olaf taken to king in the wick over all norway but when the uplanders heard of the death of king Olaf they took to king heikon thoriers fostering a first cousin of magnus sythens fared heikon and thorier north through thrandheim then summoned he the air thing that that thing heikon craved for him the king's name and that was given him so far that the bonders took him to king over that half of the land which king magnus his father had had heikon took off from the thrandheim folk the land penny geld and gave them many other law boot he took off from them yule gifts with all then turned all the thrandfolk fared with king heikon then king heikon took to him a bodyguard and sythens fared back to the uplands and gave to the uplanders all such law boot as to the thrandheimers and they also were his full and fast friends then was this sung in thrandheim young heikon the fame bounteous came hither best of all men upon the earth born as he so was offered sythens to give up half of norway to all of sun but bounteous magnus speech depth would all have chapter 2 the death of king heikon king magnus fared in autumn north to cheaping and when he came there fared he forthwith into the king's guard and abode in the hall and dwelt there the early winter he kept seven long ships and an open wake in the nid off the king's guard but when king heikon heard that king magnus had come to thrandheim he fared from the east over dove ruffel and then to thrandheim and unto cheaping and he took him harbour in schooly's garth down below clements church which was the ancient king's court it liked ill to king magnus the great gifts which king heikon had given to the bonders to win their friendship for magnus deemed that his own had been given away no less than heikon's and his mind were sore trouble there at and he deemed him mishandled of his kinsmen thereby that he should now have so much less incomings than his father had had or his forefathers before him and he whited for ear for this read king heikon and thore got to know hero and mist doubted them as to what magnus might be minded to do and then seemed that was most doubtful above all that magnus should have a float long ships tilted and arrayed in the spring about convalesce king magnus laid aboard in the midst of the night and put out with ships tilted and lights burning there under and held out to heifring and teared there for a night and they made their great fires up the land then king heikon and that folk which was in the town thought was done of treason he let blow the host out and all the jeepings folk sought there too and were gathered night long but in the morning when it took light and king magnus saw and all folks host on the airies he held out down the fur and sowed south to gula things parts then king heikon arrayed his journey and was minded east for wick but urged he had a moat in the town and spoke to the admin of their friendship and behind his friendship to all and said that there was a shatter over the will of his kinsmen king magnus king heikon sat on a horse and was bound for fairing all folk behind him their friendship with goodwill and following if he should need it and all the folks saw him off as far as out under stone berth king heikon rode up to dover fell and as he fared out over the fell he rode one day after a ptarmigan that would be flying before him and therewith he fell sick and caught his vain sickness and died there on the fell his body was flitted north and came to jeeping half a month after he had fared away thence and all the folk of the town and they mostly greeting went to meet the body of the king for all folk loved him heartily dear the body was buried at christ church king heikon was a man of well five and thirty years of age and he was one of the lords of norway most dearly beloved of the people he had fared north to be armland and had had battles there and won the victory chapter three warfare in haaland king magnus held and went east to wick and when it was spring he fared south to haaland and harried wide about there then burnt he visc dale there and more countries beside got he there much wealth and therewith all went back to his kingdom so says beyond cripple hand in the magnus drapa let fare the lord of war's folk with sword wide over haaland swift was the fight to driven the horde lords singed houses siphons the king of fran folk burned country sides of many fast-glued the hell of withies wake must the visc dale widows here it is said that king magnus did the greatest deeds of war chapter four of stagforia there was a man named stein the son of herald fletcher a danish man of kin he was the greatest of vikings and a mighty man of war the most valiant a man of great kin in his land he had been in mikkel good like king with king heikon but after the death of king heikon stagforia trode ill therein of getting into peace and friendship with king magnus if his might should go over all the land by reason of the enmity and the standing which thoria earst had had against king magnus siphons had they thorians find that reed which thereafter was brought about in that they raised them a lot through the strength of thoria and his thronging but where his thoria was an old man and heavy in his goings then stood fine to the steering of the flock and the chieftain's name to this reed turn more chiefs beside the highest among them was eagle son of aslack of aura land eagle was a landed man and had to wife ingy biord the daughter of augment son of forbur a sister of scopty of gizki sceog was the name of a mighty and wealthy man who joined the band more over this thorical hammer skull tales of in the magnus dropa thoria great heart with eagle drew flocks from wide together those reeds of theirs were no wiseful gainful unto men folk heard I that sceog's friends got them sharp hurt dense that the lands lords cast stone beyond their power against murder hawks drink giver thoria and his raise up the flock in the uplands and came down upon romsdale and southmere and got together for them ships there and held sithons for the north to thrandhine chapter five the undertakings of thoria sigurd wool string was the name of a landed man the son of lorden big skull he gathered folk by the arrow shearing when as he heard of the folk of thoria and them and made folk big with all the folk he could get but spine and thoria held their folk wither and fought with sigurd and his folk and got the victory and wrought much manspoil but sigurd fled away and fared to find king magnus but thoria and his fared to cheaping and dwelt a while there in the fur and came there a many men through them king magnus heard these tidings summoned and hosed together and straightway sithons held north forth randhine but when he came into the furth and thoria and his heard thereof they lay by heffring and were all bound to hold out of the furth then rode they unto wane wick strand and went off ship there and landed and came north into fex dale in sallow war and thoria was carried in barrows over the fells and they took them aboard ship and fared north to haloga land but king magnus fared after them so soon as he was bound from thrandhine thoria and his went all the way north to birch isle and john fled away and vid cunn his son thoria and his robbed all chattels there and burnt the stead together with a good long ship which vid cunn had then said thoria as the cutter was burning and the ship healed over more to starboard vid cunn than was this son in mid birch isle now burneth the goodliest home i wad up no gain from thoria cometh roeth the bale of timber of the fire john will not grudge him nor robbing wind this evening bright low the broad stead singes the reek goes up to heaven chapter six the death of stag thoria and eagle john and vid cunn fared day and night until they met king magnus spine and thoria also went on from the north with their host and robbed wide about a local land but when they lay in the bay called harm then they saw the sailing of king magnus and thoria and they deemed they had not folk enough to fight so they rode away and fled thoria and eagle rode to isiah town but spine rode out into the main but some hand rode into the fur king magnus held after thoria and eagle and when the ships ran together at the landing place thoria was in the forum of his ship then called sigurd wool string to him art thou whole thoria thoria answered whole of hand but frail of foot then fled the folk of thoria and eagle up a land but they laid hands on thoria eagle was taken with all because he would be white king magnus had them both taken to wombed home and when thoria was let ashore he reeled on his feet and vitkan said more to larbert thoria sythens was thoria led to gallus and he said we were fellows four and set one to the rudder and when he walked up to the gallus he said evil our evil councils sythens was he hanged and when as up reared the gallows tree thoria was so heavy that his house was torn asunder and the trunk fell to earth thoria was of all men the biggest both high and thick eagle with all was led to the gallows and when the king's thralls were about to hang him eagle spake not shall ye hang me for this cause that each one of you were not meter to hang than I even as was sung oh son heard I that true word came forth from out of the mouth of eagle against the heartless king thralls said he each man was meter higher to hang than he was the waster of the war blink grief nickel there abided king magnus sat by while they were hanged and was so wrought that no one of his men was bold enough to dare bid for peace for them and when eagle spurned the gallows the king said good kinsmen stand the ill instead in thy knee thereby it was shown that the king would have been bidden that eagle might live so says beyond cripple hand swift lord of Sagan folk readened the sword on bands of robbers wide was the wolf were tearing warm carrying round in harm furth hurts how the king did do it that men loath lord betrayal great was fight doers fairing so fair that hanged was thoria heaven of punishments on the franthein folk king magnus hill sith and south to franthein and gave great punishments there to all such men as were proven traitors to him some he slew some he burnt their goods so says beyond cripple hand shield shunning ravens feeder one fear for folk of franthein when deemed they bail of woodlands was roaming through the built land i deemed that were hosts boulder locked in the face of two hearseers the trolls horse was unhungry the urn flew to the hanged ones spine the son of herald fletcher fled first out into the main and so to danmark and was there until he got himself into peace with king eyestine son of magnus he took spine to peace and made him his trencher swing and bestowed on him kindness and honor then had king magnus sold dominion in the land and upheld world the peace thereof and riveted it of all vikings and way layers he was a brisk man and warlike and toilsome and like granol wise to his father's father herald in his mind shape rather than unto his own father chapter eight of spine key a man hight spine key the son of steinar he dwelt east away by the elf a very mighty man the con or even thawry of steig took to him as yet spine key had not given himself up into the power of king magnus now king magnus called to him sigurd wool string and told him that he will send him to spine key to bit him out of his lands and the king's havings to boot for he has not made obeisance to us nor done us honor he said east in that wick are those landed men spine bridge foot day i live sun cold beyond clack to flip our case by right and law then said sigurd i risked not that there was a man to be looked for in norway for whom three landed men were needed to come along with my avail the king said no taking to it if it be not needed now he erased his journey with one ship and held east for the wick and summons the landed men together and then a thing is called throughout and there too are been the elf fighters from the east and there was much longing of men men had to buy spine key a while syphons has seen the fairing of men wither and as a heap of ice shivers was it to look on and there come a spine key and his into the thing mode and sat down in one ring and had five hundreds of men then stood up sigurd and spake and said god's greeting and his sends king magnus unto god's friends and his all landed men and mighty men and there were fair words bidding himself for the captain and to be the breast of for all men of norway good it is to take well a king's word then standeth up a man in the flock of those elf grims michael waxen exceeding swollen face in a fleece coat a cudgel over his shoulder and a bowl hat on his head he answered no need of roller rocks drew harp shell or ice and then he sat down again somewhat later sigurd stood up and spake and thus wise took up the word little welding to the king's errand have we got of the flock of those elf grims and but middling friendly but in such matters each take of his own measure but to make the king's errand bearer he now bit of land dues from mighty men and the fetching of men to his another kingly honors with all that each one run through his own mind how he will have done that give honor to himself and write laws to the king if before he have come short therein and thereupon he sat down the same man rises up and worked his hat somewhat an answer snowsome it sniffed lads quote fins had snowshoes for sale and then sat down and somewhat later rose up sigurd he had had talk with the landed men to the end that it needed not to draw feather over the king's frank errand and wroth looking as he and cast it off the cloak he had over him blue of color and was in red scarlet curdle there under and he spayed now things have come to this past that each one must look out for himself there's no need to share fine with this man it is now seen how much we are accounted up and if that be born there is more behind to it that the king's errand is answered shamefully and after all each one must look to his own word there is a man height spine key and his steinar son dwells east by the El the king will have of him his right land dues and his own lands or but if elves quit his lands now it behooves not to hang back herein or to answer with mocking words men will be found his peers in power though we take our errands unworthily and it is better now than later to push on one's affair with honor than to abide with shame from stubbornness and he sat down then spine key rises up and cast with his hat off on his back and spayed Pasha said he beast of a dog foxes shitted in the Carl's burn hearken a foul thing thou sleeveless shirtless back what bidest thou me be off my lands sent were a four-time on the same errand day of thy kindred thou sigured wool bag one was called Gil back with and another by a worser name night long were they in a house and stole where so ever they came what bidest me out of my lands lest was thy carp while hay con my foster son was alive when as so had worked thou if thou worked in his way as a mouse in a trap so worked thou huddled up in rags as a cur aboard ship as packed into a sack as corn in a skin so worked thou chased out of thy lands as a plow horse from stud in one breathing hole thou had like an otter in a gin what now deem thee well a paid if thou come away with thy life stand up that reed only saw spine bridge foot to put a horse under sigurd and he rode away into the wood and so a clothes that spine key went back to his lands but sigurd wool string came the land road with ill play north to thrandheim and met king magnus and told him how matters stood then said the king disthout need somewhat of a veil from the landed men sigurd deemed ill of his journey and said he had will to avenge him and he exon the king king magnus let array the ships and fared south along the land and eased a wick in their taketh glorious feasts of his landed men the king told them he will meet spine key and said he mistouted him that he would will to be king over norway they said the man was mighty and hard to deal with now fared the king until they came off the abode of spine key then bade the landed men to be allowed to watt of tidings and they go up from the ships they see the ring of spine key that he had come from his stead with a host of men well arrayed there upon the landed men up rear the white shield spine key stays his men and both hosts met then spake cold beyond clack king magnus sends the greeting and then he saith and bid with him heed his own honor and the king's lordship and not to died him so masterful as to fight with the king he offered to bear words of peace and tricks them at him stay his host spine key said he would abide we fared out against you that you might not tread down our acres they met the king and said that all would be in his wielding the king said swift is my doom let him flee out of the land and come back never while is my reign and he shall let go all his goods would not that be more seemingly said cold beyond and better for the hearing of other kings to put him from the land in such wise that he might be with mighty men for his wealth sake he will never come back while we have the lands but thou which have done in mighty man's manner think of this with thyself and worthy our words the king said let him fared away forthwith then they met spine key and tell him kind words from the king but that with all that the king bids him fared away from the land and do that honor to the king for had trespassed against him for that is honor to both the king would grant him as much wealth as would deceive him think there are then said spine key then things must have changed if the king spoke kindly why should I flee my lands and all my goods harken to it better it seems to me to fall amidst my belongings than to flee mine heritage tell the king that hence I flee not so long as one bow shot cold beyond said not is that the one only likely thing better to bow to worship of the best lord than to withstand him to the point of great troubles to a good man is it good wheresoever he live it and that will be most accounted of wheresoever thou happenest on men the most mighty in that thou hast held thine own against such a lord harken to our behest and worship somewhat our errand we offer thee to look after thy goods and truly to guard them with all if thou come back to thy lands pay thou scat never but it be thy will and there too shall we lay in pledge both our goods and our lives thrust this not away from thee and so spare all troubles to good fellows then spine key held his peace and spake syphons wisely do you seek hereafter yet it missed out of me whether this errand of the king be not somewhat turned aside but for the nickel good we have shown I shall so worship your words that I will fare from the land winter long but that while I shall have my goods left in peace according to your behest say these my words to the king and that it is done for your sakes not for the kings then they met the king and tell him that spine key lays everything in his power but he bid it therefore the honor of thee to be away three winters then to come back if that be the will of both of you do for the king's ship and our prayer and let it so be whereas all is at thy doom and we shall lay all down there too that he come not back safe at thy will then spake the king as good men and true ye flitted and for your sake shall we even so do as you pray tell him so they thank the king and fared on to find spine key and tell him of the kindly words of the king and feign are we if ye too might come to peace praise the king that at three winters first should be named but we wean if we want the suit that ere that he will not be without you and for your honor's sake it is a reed worshipful not to nay say it says spine key what then for suit tell the king I shall do him no heart burn indwelling here so take ye my goods in hand he turns with his host home to the stead and his off straight way and was bound here colby orn stave behind bidding king magnus to a feast as if that had already been settled before now spine key rides up into gout land with all his host such there are as like of him the king take his banquets at his steads and then goes back to the wick and those are called the king's goods and lands which spine key had owned and he lets colby orn guard them the king take his banquets about the wick and then he fare to the north and now things quiet awhile but now ill folk fall upon the elf grims whereas it is lordless and the king sees that waste will be his realm east away there seems to him the only thing to be done is to grant it to spine key to break the stream before him and that seemeth the handiest gads and the king sendeth word to his spine key twice but he fared not till the king himself came to Denmark then they made full peace and spine and was ever sithons abreast for the king chapter nine the west varying of king magnus king magnus died his journey out of the land and had an host mickle and fare with him and ships of the best he held his host west over the main and first to the orc knees he laid hands on both urls paul and urland and sent them both east to norway and set his son sigurd up for lord over the isles and got him a council sithons king magnus held his host into the south isles and when he came there he fell straight way to harry and to burn the builded country and slew them men folk and robbed where so ever they fared but the folk of the land fled wide away some into scotland first some south to camp tire or west to arland while others some get life and men and became the king's men so says beyond cripple hand wood saw all through lewis played wildly nigh the heavens wide were the folk flight eager fire gushed forth from houses fared the king fight eager wide with the flame vissed over the lord won fight being ruddy and life and wealth lost bonders the stauncher of the hunger of storm goose let their harry scott and glad wolf's tooth reddened on many a wound in tirie the green lands lord wrought weeping for maids south down the islands the mall folk ran all mirthred high went the scotchman's scatterer chapter ten of lawmen the son of king goodrod king magnus brought his host to holy aisle and gave their truce and peace to all men and to all men's goods so men say that he was minded to open column kill church the little but went not the king within and straightway locked the door with bolt and said no one should be so bold henceforth to go into that church and so has it been done sithons then king magnus brought his host south to eile and harry there and burnt and when he had won that land he died his journey south past cantar and then harried on either board now on Ireland now on scotland and went thus all with war shield all the way south to man and harry there as in other places so says beyond cripple hand the brisk king wide the shield bore on to the level sandy smoked eile when the warmen of all wielder eithed burnings yet southward cantar louded neath edges of the war host sithons fight feeder nimble wrought man fall of the man folk lawman height the son of goodrod king of the south aisles lawman was set to landward in the northern aisles king magnus came to the south aisles with his host lawman fled away here and there about the islands but at last king magnus men took him together with his crew when as he would flee to Ireland the king let set him in irons and keep him in ward so says beyond cripple hand each shelter was apparel which had the son of goodrod the frowns lord got the banning of land there unto lawman the odd deer folks death got caught outside the messes waster batters bolster where as roared tongues of blade rims chapter 11 the fall of earle hew the valiant sithons held king magnus his host for bretland but when he came into angle sea sound there came against him and host from bretland and two earls ruled there over hew the valiant and hew the thick and laid straight way to battle and there was the hard fight king magnus shot from the bow but hew the valiant was all burning so that nothing was bare on him saved the eyes alone king magnus shot an arrow at him and another man with all a haloga lander who stood beside the king and they shot both at once came one arrow on the nose guard of the helm and the nose guard was bent and twisted over to one side but the other shot came on the earl's eye and flew through to the back of his head and that man to the king there hew the earl fell and fled the bretlander's sithons and had lost much folk so says beyond cripple hand the sword grow ruled life spilling a few the earl the valiant in angle sound where sheared the strokes and darts flew swiftly and yet again was this son point dimmed against the burning with might and main the king shot ogdeer's all wielder swayed the helm blood leaped on more helms into the ring's blue string hail the folk stooped but the hordes lord let bane come to the earl there in the land on set hearty king magnus gatt victory in that battle then yet he angle c and that was the furthest south but the former kings who had been in norway had gotten dominion to them angle c is a third part of bretland after this battle turned back king magnus with his host and made first for scotland the fair between him and king malcom of scotland and they made peace between them king magnus should have all the islands that lie to the rest of scotland all of them to whip the twigs which and the main land to keel with rudder shipped could there but when king magnus came from the south up to can tire then let he drag a cutter over can tire neck with rudder shipped and himself sat on the poop and held the tiller and thus got he to him so much land as laid to the winter can tire is a mickle land and better than the best of the south isle save man and their neck there is between it and the main land of scotland and their over long ships are often dragged chapter 12 death of the urls of ortony king magnus was the winter over in the south isle and then faired his men over all scotland's firsts and rode inside all islands build it and unbuild it and owned for the king of norway king magnus got to wife to his son sugerd be ad murnia daughter of king murky art pine the son of the all feet the king of the irish ruled over conaut the next summer king magnus fared with his host east of norway url urland was dead of sickness in the dois and there is buried but url paul in bjorgven scotty the son of augment the son of thwerberg was a landed man of a mound he dwelt dead gizky in south near he had to wife gudrin daughter thwerd the son of foley their children were augment fin thwerd and thwera whom a soft son of scully had to wife the sons of scotty and his wife were the most likely of men in their youth and the best beloved of folk chapter 13 strife of king magnus and king ingy steinkel the sweet king died near the fall of the two heralds and heikon hight the king in sweden next after king steinkel syphons was ingy king the son of king steinkel a good king and a mighty of all men the most and strongest he was king in sweden when az magnus was king in norway king magnus claimed that that was the land marches that in days of yore the galtel had sundered the realms of the swede king the norway's king and syphons the vener as far as bermlein and king magnus claimed to own all the country's size to the west of vener that is south dale and north dale veer and var denayar and all march lands thereto appertaining but that had then this long wild lane under the sway of the sweet king into west galtland as fordoos and the men of the march lands would still be under the sway of the sweet king as hers king magnus rode out of the wake up into galtland having and host nickel and fair but when he came into the march dwellings he hurried and burned and fared so through all the builded lands and the people went under him and swore obedience to him but when he came up as far as the water of vener the autumn began to wear then they went out into convolved ensile and made there a burg of turf and timber and dig to dyke about it and when this work was done it was brought into it biddle and other havings whereof was knee the king sat there and the men the captains of whom were finned the son of scopty and segerd wool string and had the goodliest company but the king turned back therewith west toward the wick chapter 14 of the north men but when the sweet king heard this he bet and hosed together and the word went that he was minded to ride down but that was tarried awhile then sang the northman this all along death ingy threw broad tarry his but when the water of vener was laid under ice king ingy came down having well now thirty hundreds of men he sent word to the northmen who sat in the burg and bade them fare their ways with what goods they had and back to Norway but when the messengers bore to them the king's words segerd wool string answered and said that king ingy would bring about other things than to wise them away as a herd out of hand and said he would have to come nire first the messengers bore these words back to the king syphons fared king ingy with the whole host out into the island and sent the second time men to the northmen and bade them fare away and have with them their weapons raiment and horses but leave behind all robbed goods this they naysaid but syphons they fell on them and both shot at each other then let the king bear stones and timber there too and fill the dug then let each take and anchor and bind it to long staves and bear that up to the top of the timber wall then went there too many men and dragged the wall asunder then were made big fires and they shot blazing brands at them then the northmen bade four quarter and the king bade them go out weaponless cloakless and as they went out each of them was whipped with twigs they fared away in such flight and home again to Norway but the markmen all turned back to king Inge Sigurd and his fellows went on until they met king Magnus and told him of their misadventure end of the story of king Magnus barefoot part one chapter one through 14