 Section 61 of Hymes Kringler by Snorri Storrelson, translated by George Pope Morris and Iroker Magnussen. This the Vivox recording is in the public domain. The story of King Magnus barefoot part 2 chapter 15 through 28. Chapter 15 of King Magnus and Gifford. That man came to King Magnus when he was east in the wick. Hyde Gifford, a Welshman, and said he was a good knight, and offered King Magnus his service and said that he had heard. The King had around much in need of rule. The King gave him a good welcome. At that time King Magnus was making ready to fare up into Goutland as he deemed he had a claim on the gouts to his dominion. A great host he had in the west gouts went under him all about the nearest country signs. Scythons he set him down at the marches and they dwelt intense and he was minded on a raiding. King Inge heard this and gathers, folk and takes the way to meet King Magnus. The wind to King Magnus came the news of his fairing. His captains begged him to turn back, but the King would not that but holds him on to go meet King Inge a knight ere he should beware. And as he was arraying his host at the stead Hyde Foxen he asked where is Gifford and he was not seen. Then said the King, now not will he are flocked till the false knight of the Welshman. Then a scald who was with the King joined in. The King asked what was doing. Gifford went as the folk fought. In gore we reddened weapons but thither came he nowhere. On a red neck the dastard forloth was to forth riding and not will he are flocked till the false knight of the Welshman. Michael Manscave was there but King Inge got him free by flight. Then came Gifford riding down from the land and was spoken not well of that he was not at the battle. There he away sithence and went to England. Hard was their voyage and he lay mostly a bed. Then went to the bailing a man of Iceland height. Oh the arm and when he saw where Gifford lay then sang he why fit a fit our courtman to doze in surly temper. Be brisk all night fair harrid though walloweth the keel now. Sooth is that I bid Gifford be take him to the bail but or hide like his bailing in the broad hulled horse of whaleland. And when they came west to England he tells how the Northman had been nith him. Then was a moat called and there came a grieve and the case came before him. He said he was but little want to the cases of men whereas he was a young man and had had overrule but a short while. And the other matter can I little to clear up when some it is yet may we harken. Then L. Dion sang heard I that flight thou dravest at foxman but the other of the man host there were hidden. I heard of a war was hard there. I was the going there out of the hardener of helm thunder where Gifford you to hell smote as you stood the lands of count land. Then said the sheriff little am I of a skull but I can hear that this is no nith and that there was an honor unto thee therein. But he Gifford cannot what to say hereon but he finds that this was mockery. Chapter 16 battle at foxman in spring so soon as the ice was loose king Magnus went with his host east to Elf and held up the eastern branch thereof and harried everywhere in the realm of the sweet king. But when they came up as far as Foxen then they went up the land from their ships and as they came over a certain river which was in their way came against them the host of the gouts and a battle befell in the north men were overborn by folk and turned to flight and many of them were slain by a certain water force. King Magnus bled and the gouts followed them and slew such as they might. King Magnus was a man easily known the most of men he had a red surcoat over his burning the hair silky flaxen falling down over his shoulders. Ogman Scapterson wrote on one side of the king the biggest unfairest of men and said give me the surcoat king the king answered what has thou to do with the surcoat I will have it said he thou hast given me greater gifts than that now the lay of the land was such that far and wide there were level fields and the gouts in the north men saw each other ever but in other places there were cluffs and corpses which hid the site. Then the king gave the surcoat to Ogman that he donned sithens ride they forth onto the fields and Ogman turned right a fort and his company and when the gouts saw that they deemed that there would be the king and rode there after him all so the king rode his way to the ship but Ogman drew away as hardly as as might be and yet came hail aboard ship held King Magnus sithens down along the river and so north into the width chapter 17 peace between the kings the next summer after a meeting was laid the twigs the kings that kings rocked in the elf and there became Magnus Norway's king and Engi this week king and eric the son of sign the dain king and this meeting was bound to truce but when the thing was set the kings went forth into the field apart from other men and spoke together for a little while and then walked back to their folk and then was peacemade so that each should have such dominion as their fathers had had before but each king should boot his own landsmen their robbery and manscaped and each sithens to even it against each other king Magnus should have two wife Margaret the daughter of King Engi who was sithens called fifth pole that was the talk of the men that never had been seen men lordlier that were they all of them King Engi was somewhat the biggest and stoutest and he was deemed to be the most elder like king Magnus was deemed to be the most masterful and nimblest but king eric was rather the goodliest to behold and all were they bare men big noble and word handy at things thus done they parted chapter 18 the wedding of king Magnus king Magnus got queen Margaret the daughter of King Engi and she was sent from the east from Sweden to Norway and there was gotten to her a noble following but king Magnus had a four certain parents which are named a son of his was Hyde Einstein whose mother was of little kin another height Sigurd younger by one winter his mother height Laura Olaf height the third much youngest his mother was Sigrid the daughter of Saxe of Rick the noble man in Thrandheim she was the king's concubine so say men that when as king Magnus came back from his west Viking that he held much to the fashion of raiment as was want in the west land and many of his men likewise they would go bare-legged in the street and had short hurdles went over quotes so the men called him Magnus barefoot or bare leg but some men called him Magnus the high other some stout wilds Magnus he was the highest of men his mark of height was done in Mary's church in Cheeping that same witch king Harold had let do make thereby the north door were hammered out on the stone wall three crosses one for Harold's height the second Olaf's height a third Magnus height and that was marked where each of them might kiss the handiest Harold's cross was uppermost and Magnus crossed nevertheless but Olaf's marked midway of both this lay is given to king Magnus how that he made it of the Kaiser's daughter but tilt is the one that hurts me my play enjoy and wake it the war now the moon string gets the blood mew in the south land the lady white red harrid her land was shield who warded teach of me little sleeping swords bit the doors of hog me and still he sang what here in the world is better than the bear wives but seldom the skull death sees from longing long day the land that carries this heavy sorrow bear I from thing that never henceforth my maiden shall I find me men for the mode bedight then when king Magnus had heard a friendly word from the Kaiser's daughter to him and when she had said that such a man she deemed of worship as was king Magnus then he sang this in secret good word here I on the skull from the gird of gold ring the red hair online will not cast forth her speech on sea wave I love the words we're loving of that row bench of good web though no wise oft I find her no man that high I love her chapter 19 on peace betwixt king Magnus and scopti scopti augman son fell out with king Magnus and they drove about and heritage scopti held it but the king claimed it with so nickel mastery that it came to the very point of peril many meetings they had to hold on the matter but scopti laid that read there to the he and his son should never be all at once in the king's power and he said that that would serve best when as scopti was before the king he brought this forward that due kinship was betwixt him and the king and that moreover he had always been a dear friend to the king and their friendship had never turned aside so said he that meant might know that he had got such wits about him that I will not says he hold the matter in contests with the king if I should speak wrong but in this I take after my four elders to hold my right against anyone and in that matter I have no respective person the king was the same nor did his mind grow beaker by such speech so scopti there at home chapter 20 the journey of then scoptisan syphons went in the son of scopti to find the king and talk with him and bad the king this that he should let father and sons get their rights of this case the king answered solely in short then said then I looked for something else from the king then by robbing me of law herein when as I went into kevlod didn't see which few others of that friends would do for they said a suit was that they were a four sold we sat there and doing to death if king ingy had not shown us more high mindedness than thou had seen to for us and yet many folk will deem that we bore shame then if that be worth ought had such talk the king shifted not and so then bared home chapter 21 the journey of augman scoptisan then feared augman scoptisan to see the king and when he came before the king he bared forth his earned and bad the king be right by the father and sons the king said that that was right which he spake and that they were wondrous over both then spake augman thou wilt come thy way king thus wise and longest by reason of thy might will that here be soothed as to said that the giving of life most men reward ill or not that shall each follow my plea that I shall never again come into thy service nor any one of our fatherhood if I may rule it bared augman home after this and never after did they see each other king magnus and augman chapter 22 scopti's fairing out of the land next spring scopti the son of augman arrayed his fairing away out of the land he had five long ships all well died and to this journey but took themselves with him his sons augman and fin and thord they were somewhat late bound and sailed in harvest to flanges and were there the winter through early in the spring they sailed west to the land and in the summer they sailed out through nor the sound and in harvest to roam there died scopti all of them father and sons died in this journey but thord lived the longest event and died in sicily that is the say of men that scopti was the first of north men to sail through nor the sound and most famed was that journey chapter 23 miracle of king olof at a fire it befell in cheaping whereas king olof rests that fire came into a house in the town and it burned wide then was born from out the church the shrine of king olof and set against the fire syphons ran there to a man airbrained and unwise and beat the shrine and threatened the holy man and said that all would burn up there unless he saved them with his prayers both the church and other houses now almighty god let that burning of the church be stayed off but to that unwise men he sent eye pain forth with the same night unless he lay all along until the holy king olof prayed almighty god for mercy for him and within that same church he got healed again chapter 24 king olof's miracles on a crippled woman that other tidings also was in cheaping that a certain woman was brought with her to that place where as king olof rests she was so for done that she was all crippled together in such wise that both her legs lay bent up with her thighs now in as much as she was diligent at prayers and had made behest to him greeting he healed her of her michael a so that her feet and legs and other limbs were straightened out of their bonds and thereafter every joint and limb served its right shape before she might not even call with it but she walked dense whole and feigned to her homestead chapter 25 warfare in ireland king magnus arrayed his journey out of the land and had a michael host and at that time he had been king over norway nine winters then fared he west over the sea and had the goodliest host that was there too in norway him fathered all mighty men in the land sigurd haranison vidcon johnson day eilish son cirque of sagun ivend elbow the king's marshal wolf ranison brother of sigurd and many other mighty men became paired with all this host west to orc me and took with him dense the sons of rural urlan magnus and urlan many sailed for them south aisles and while he lay off scotland magnus the son of urlan ran by night from the kingship and swam ashore and fared sythens into a wood and came at last to the court of the king of the scotch king magnus went with the host on towards ireland and harried there then came king murr kiyar tan to hosting with him and they won michel of the land dublin to wit and dublin shirt and king magnus was through the winter up in konok with king murr kiyar tan but set his men to guard the land he had won but when it was spring the kings fared with their host west into ulster and had their many battles in one land and had won the most part of ulster when king murr kiyar tan went back home to konok chapter 26 up going of king magnus king magnus arrayed his ships then and was minded to fair east and norway he set his men for the guarding of the land in dublin he lay off ulster with all his host and they were bound to sail they deemed they needed a strand hewing and king magnus sent his men to king murr kiyar tan bidding him to send him a strand you and he appointed the day on which he was to come if his messengers were hailed to wit the day before bartholomew's mass but on the eve of that mass they were not yet come but on the mass day when as the sun ran up king magnus went to land with the most part of his host and went up from the ships and would seek for his men and the strand you the weather was windless and sunshiny the road lay over mires and thens where there over were cut logs of wood but on either side there were corpses as they were set forward there was before them a high hill once they might see far and wide they saw then some they called ride reek up landward and talk between them whether that could be the host of the irish but some said that it would be their men with the strand hew so they took stand there then spake Ivan Elba king said he what is thy mind about this journey and rarely men deem thou fairest there is thou waters that the irish are guileful they think the now of some read for line host then spake the king let us now rank our host and be ready if this be guile so it was ranked and the king and Ivan went before the array king magnus had a helm on his head and a red shield and laid there on a golden line buried with the sword which is called legbiter two tilted and the grip gold wrapped the best of weapons he had a spear in hand and had on a silken circuit over his shirt and a silken lion shorn out on back and breast bulls and that was the talk of men that never had seen a noble man or more value Ivan had he read silken circuit of the same fashion as the kings and he too was a big man and goodly and the most warrior like chapter 27 the fall of king magnus but when the dust cloud came there they saw that there went there own men with a nickel strand hew which the king of the Irish had sent them and had held all his word to king magnus then they turned back down to the ships and this was about the hour of midday but when they got out on the mires he was slow bearing over the fence and then rushed out the host of the Irish of every witness and gave battle forthwith but the Northman fair drifting and many of them fell speedily then Ivan spake king says he unhappily fare our folk take we good read swiftly the king said blow the warblast for all folk together under the banner but what folk here is shoot into she'll burn and fare we then away to heal out over the mires sythens shall there be no peril when we come onto the level land the Irish shot boldly yet fell they all thick but ever came man in man's stick but when the king was come to the outermost ditch there was michael you're going back and crossing but in few places and there fell much northman then the king called to thorgren skin hood a land of man of his upland of country and baton fare over the dyke with his company but we will send it meanwhile says he so that ye shall take no hurt very sythens under yonder home and shoot at them while we fare over the dyke for ye be good bowman the wind thorgren and his got over the dyke they cast their shields on their backs and ran down to the ships and when the king saw that he said unmanly sundress thou from thy king unwise was i when i made thee a land of man and made sigurd hound and outlaw never would he have so fare king magnus got a wound a spear was thrust through both his thighs above the knee he gripped the shaft betricks his legs and break off the spearhead and spake so break we every each spar leg swain said ye unwell i shall be none the worse king magnus was hewn on the neck with his spark and that was the bane sword of him then blood day who were left bid cun son of john bore to ship the sword legbiter and the king's banner they ran the last he the second sigurd for anison and the third day i live sin there fell with king magnus i've been elbow wolf for anison and many other mighty men fell many of the northman but yet a many more out of the irish but the northman that got away left the land straight away that harvest early the son of url urland fell in ireland with king magnus but when the host that had fled out of ireland came to orkney and sigurd heard of the fall of magnus's father he but took himself straight way to joining with them and they feared that harvest east into norway chapter 28 of king magnus and bid cun son of john king magnus was king over norway for ten winters and in his days there was good peace within the land but the folk had great toil and cost from his outland hostings king magnus was most well beloved of his own men but the bonders deemed him hard that tell men of his words when his friends said that he would often fare unwearly when as he harried in the outlands he said thus for fame shall one have a king not for long life king magnus was nigh on 30 years of age when he fell bid cun slew that man in the battle who was the bansman of king magnus then fled bid cun and had gotten him three wounds and for that sake the sons of magnus took him into the most dear liking end of the story of king magnus barefoot part two chapter 15 through 28 section 62 of hymes gringla by snorrie stirrelson translated by george pope morris and ina kerr magnuson this liver vox recording is in the public domain the story of sigurd the druselund bearer eyestein and ola part one chapter one through 10 chapter one the beginnings of the sons of magnus after the fall of king magnus barefoot his sons eyestein sigurd and ola took up the kingdom in norway eyestein had the northern deal of the land and sigurd the southern king ola was then four or five winters old but that third part of the land which was his share they both had warred over sigurd was taken to king when he was 13 or 14 winters old but eyestein was a year older king sigurd left behind west beyond the sea the daughter of the irish king when the sons of king magnus were taken to kings came back from druselund and some from michael garth those men who had fared out with scopti aug monson and they were most famed and knew to tell of many kind of tidings and from the newness of the matter yearned many men in norway for those fairings it was said that in michael garth northmen got any wealth they would to bless them with all they who would go into war wage they bade the kings that one of them or the other either eyestein or sigurd should fare and be captain of that folk which should be take itself to the journey and the kings said yea there too and arrayed the journey at both their costs to this journey but took themselves many mighty men both landed men and mighty bonders and when the fairing was bound it was settled that sigurd should fare but eyestein should rule over the land on behalf of both chapter two of the earls of orcney one winter or two after the fall of king magnus barefoot there came from the west from orcney hay con son of earl paul and to him the kings gave earldom and lordship in the orcneys even as the earls before him had had such as paul his father or earl and his father's brother and earl hay con went west to the orcneys chapter three king sigurd's journey abroad four winters after the fall of king magnus bare king sigurd his folk away from norway then had he sixty ships so says the rauren curt fell so came together michael host eager of the folk king much wise well-willed to the bounteous that sixty board fair ships hence glided or wades at the willing of god the all pure king sigurd sailed in the autumn to england there then was king henry son of william the bastard and king sigurd was there the winter through so says iron arm scullison toil mighty leader ruled westward the most of war hosts seas mare sped beneath the lord king unto the english lee land the fight glad king let keel rest and winter long there bided no better king there strided from out of by mars falcon chapter four king sigurd's journey king sigurd fared next spring with his host to the land and came in the harvest out on galizieland and well there the next winter so says iron arm scullison and the great king the highest in power beneath the sun hall there in the james land fed he his soul the second winter there heard i war host leader he paid an url or forward for a lie the king king minded brightened black swan of battle this was with these tidings that the url who ruled over the land there made peace with king sigurd and the url should let set market for meat cheaping for sigurd all the winter but this went on no longer than to you and then meat grew hard to get for the land is barren and an ill meatland fared then king sigurd with a michel company to a castle which the url had and the url fled away whereas he had but a little band king sigurd took their much middle and michel other wargettings and let flit it all to his ships and then arrayed him for going away and fared west along by spain when as king sigurd was sailing along spain it befell that certain vikings who were faring on war catch came to meet him with a host of galleys but king sigurd joined battle with them and so hoeve up his first battle with he the men and he won eight galleys of them so says halder gabler and by kings little worthy fared they to meet the mighty king of the roofs of vile ner the king laid low the fight gods the host there got the ridding of galleys eight where fell not few folk the friend of warriors the con to men got plunder sythens hell kings sigurd to the castle called centra and fought there another battle that is in spain there within sat heathen folk and harried on christian men he won the castle and slew there all the folk for none would let them be christened and took their michel wealth so says halder gabler now of the great deeds tell i of the king which fell in spain land the slinger of the vans day let set on centra boldly grim grew it for those warriors with the hearty lord to battle he and they who holy nays said god's right there bidden to them chapter five lisbon one after that king sigurd held his host to lisbon that is a michel town of spain one half christian the other half heathen there sunder spain christened and spain heathen all the countryside's are heathen which lie to west dense there had king sigurd the third battle with heathen men and had the victory get he there michel wealth so says halder gabler oh brisk king's son thou fought us the third of victory south there in the land were at elander against the town which called his lisbon then king sigurd held the host west round about spain heathen and laid two at the town called al cas and had there the fourth battle with heathen men and won the town and slew there so many folk that he ridded the town there they got exceeding michel wealth so says halder gabler i heard that ye folk urger yearned to win sharp fights tower of fourth of times out yonder were called it is al kase and still this herd eye of sorrows winning unto the women heathen in one burg wasted folk there chose to drift into fleeing chapter six battle in formantara then hell king sigurd his way and laid for nor v sound and in the sound was before him a michel viking host and the king laid into battle with them and had there the fifth battle and won the victory so says halder gabler ye trusted edge to redden eastward of nor v sound there and there did god avail thee to fresh wounds flew the corpse mew syphons king sigurd laid his host south away along cirkeland and came to the island called formantara there had set down a michel host of heathen blue men in a certain cave and had set before the door of the cave a great stone wall they harried wide in the land and flitted their war catch to the cave kings sigurd made on set upon that island and fared to the cave which was in a certain sheer rock and it was steep going up the bent to the stone wall but the rock shoved forth over the stone wall the heathen guarded the stone wall and were not a drag of the weapons of the north men whereas they might bear stones and weapons down upon the north men below their feet nor did the north men make the onset as matters stood then took the heathen paul and other deer bought things and bore them out unto the wall and shook them at the north men and whooped at them and egged them and taunted them of their heart then sought king sigurd a reed there too he let take two ships boats such as be called barks and drag them up on to the rock over the cave door and let lash thick ropes to the forts and stem and stern syphons men went into them as many as had room there in and then the boats were let down before the cave with ropes then they in the boats shot and cast stone so that the heathen shrank back from the stone wall then went king sigurd up onto the rock under the stone wall with his host and they break the wall and so came up into the cave but the heathen fled within over another stone wall which was set or thwart the cave then that the king flipped into the cave big wood and cast up a mickle bale in the door of the cave and set fire to it but the heathen where as fire and smoke sought to them some lost their lives some went on to the weapons of the north men and all folk there were either slain or burned there got the north men the greatest of war catch which they had taken in this journey so says halder gabbler before the stem of that stour be yearning peace undoer was for minterra there must the blue men's host be thoeling fire and edges air bane they got them and this more over the famed king's deeds on cirkeman have grown to fame fight strengthener thou let's the bark sink downward before the troll wife's byway but he the throt of clashing of gondol's thing sought upward from the cliff bent with his following to the throng cave of the sea cliff and again says the roren kerfell the king fight handy bad men be dragging to blue sward when wolves up onto the rock there then when the strong deer of timbers men manned in ropes sank downward before the cave door chapter seven fight in eviza and menorca then fared forth his ways king sigurd and came to the island height eviza and there had battle and won the victory that was the seventh battle so says halder gabbler the much we worshiped marker of murder wheels brought ship host to eviza the famed king was fame of the peace sundering after this king sigurd came to the island height manorca and had there the eighth battle with heathen men and get the victory so says halder gabbler syphons befell the eighth one of point storms to be wakened on green menorca the king's host they read in their finns tribute chapter eight how roger took kingdom king sigurd came in spring to sicily and dwelt there along then was roger duke there he gave good welcome to the king and bat him to a feast king sigurd came there too and much folk with him there was dear welcome and every day of the feast stood up duke roger and served king sigurd at the board and on the seventh day of the feast when as men had washed hands king sigurd took the url by the hand and led him up into the high seat and gave him the name of king and that right that he should be king over the realm of sicily but before there had been only urls over that realm chapter nine concerning king roger roger king of sicily was the mightiest of kings he won all apulia and laid it under him and many other great islands in the greek land main he was called roger the rich his son was king william of sicily who long had had great unpeace with michael garth's kaiser king william had three daughters and no son one of his daughters he gave to kaiser henry the son of kaiser frederick but their son was frederick who now was kaiser romberg another daughter of king william had the duke of cyprus the third had margaret the lord of corsairs kaiser henry slew them both the daughter of roger king of sicily had kaiser manuel in michael garth and their son was kaiser car relax chapter 10 king sigurd fared to jerusalem in the summer sail king sigurd out over the greek lands main to jerusalem land and then fared up to the city of jerusalem and met there baldwin the king of jerusalem king baldwin welcomed king sigurd exceeding well and rode with him down to the river jordan and back again to jerusalem so says inar scullison to scald not one fold is it praise of all wielders lordship the sea cold hall the king let glide through the greek land salt sea or ever the wolf feeder made fast his ships to acre the huge broad bird feign mourning all folk with their king abided and this furthermore jerusalem's hotel i the built place spared the fight live to look on no king nobler men what of neath wide wind hall hater of flame of hawk field got speedily to bathe him in the clear jordan water praise to this reed was given king sigurd well much long in jerusalem land through harvest and the beginning of winter end of the story of sigurd the jerusalem fared i stein and olof part one chapter one through ten section 63 of heim's cringla by snorri astral sin translated by george pope morris and ira kerr magnus and this liver vox recording is in the public domain the story of sigurd the jerusalem ferrer i stein and olof part two chapter 11 through 21 chapter 11 side and one king baldwin made a goodly banquet for king sigurd and much folk with him then gave king baldwin many holy relics to king sigurd and then was taken a splinter out of the holy cross by the reed of king baldwin and the patriarch and they both swore on a holy relic that that tree was of the holy cross on which god himself was pined sythens that holy relic was given to king sigurd this bargain then he swore together with twelve other men with him that he would further christian faith by all his might and bring into his land and arch bishops chair if he might and that the cross should be there whereas the holy king olof rested and that he should further the tide and himself pay it king sigurd fared sythens to his ships in acreberg then king baldwin was arraying his host to go to syria land to the town height siden that burg was heathen to that journey king sigurd but took himself with him and when the kings had a little while sat before the town the heathen men gave themselves up and the kings got the town but their folk other booty king sigurd gave to king baldwin all the town so says hall door gambler feeder of tyke of wounding a heathen burg thou takest by might but gave us by bounty each fight was fought full valiant of this inars gullison also tells i heard that the lord of dale folk won siden so the scald minds the slaughter slingers took then in chris wreath hard a writing the war hawks strong mouth dire a woeful work he break there fair swords grew red but the brisk king got gladdened of the victory after that king sigurd fared to his ships and made ready to leave jerusalem land they sailed north to that island which height cyprus and their king sigurd dwelt some while and fared sythens to greek land and laid to all his host off angel ness and lay there for half a month and every day was fair breeze north along the main but he will to buy such a wind as should be a right sidewind so that sales might be set and long of the ship for all his sales were set with paul both for and for this reason that both they who were forward as well as they who were aft would not to look on the unfair sales chapter 12 the journey of king sigurd to michael garth when king sigurd sailed into michael garth he sailed near to the land all about up the land there are bergs and castles and thoughts so that nowhere there is a break there in then folk saw from the land into the bow of all the sails and there was nowhere an opening between all looked as if it were one wall all folk stood out of doors that could see the sailing of king sigurd kaiser korea lax had heard of the journey of king sigurd and he let unlock that town gate to michael garth which is height gold port through that gate the kaiser shall ride into the town when he has been long away from michael garth and has had a great victory then let the kaiser spread paul over all the streets of the city from gold port to lax tiarn there are all the nobles halls of the kaiser king sigurd said to his men that they should ride proudly into the city and let them look to be heating little whatever new things they might see and so did they rode king sigurd and all his men in the greatest state to michael garth and so to the bravest hall of the king and there was all died before them king sigurd tarried there for a while then sent kaiser korea lax his men to him asking which he would rather take from the kaiser six ship pounds of gold or that the king should let do for him the play which the kaiser was want to show at the hippodrome king sigurd chose the play and the messenger said that the cost to the kaiser of the play was no less than that gold then the kaiser let array the sport and men played their ad in wanted wise and that time all the play sped better for the kaiser the queen owns half the play and their men strive each against the other in all the plays and the greeks say that if the king wins more games at the hippodrome than the queen then will the king win the victory if he goes to the wars that same men who have been in michael garth that the hippodrome is made on this wise that a high wall is set about a field that may be equal to the width of a home field rounded is with grades all about and their men sit along the stone wall while the game is in the field there are carbon many ancient tidings the asfolk the bolsungs the guiyukungs done of copper and metal with so michael deafness that men deem it all to be alive when they come to the game the plays are wrought with michael cunning and guile men seem to be riding in the air shooting fire is used there at in every kind of heart play and song gear chapter 13 of king sigurd that is said how king sigurd would give the kaiser dinner on a day and he bid it now his men to gather all stuff in stately wise and when everything had been got together which behoved for the entertainment of rich men king sigurd said that men should go into that street in the city where as far wood was cheapened and said that they would need the same they said that every day many loads thereof were driven into the town and he need have no misdoubting on that score but when they wanted to take it all gone was the wood and so they tell the king he answered look to it now if he may get walnuts no less shall we can to make fire of them they fared and got so much as they would and now comes the kaiser and is worthy and they sit down together and are in manifold honor there and king sigurd feasteth them gallantly and when the kaiser and the queen find out that there is not lacking then send of sheep men to what what they had defiring so they come to a certain house and find that it is full of walnuts and tell her thereof she said certs this king will be of high conditions and will spare a few things for his honor's sake no wood burns better than this firing this had she done to try him what read he should take chapter 14 king sigurd's journey home after this king sigurd arrayed him for his home fairing he gave to the kaiser all his ships and a gold adorned head was on the ship that king sigurd had steered they were set on peter's church and are there sithons to behold kaiser could relax gave king sigurd many horses and fetched him a way leader through all his realm bared then king sigurd away out of michael garth but a michael many of north men abode behind and went into wage war there king sigurd went from the east first through the land of the bulgers and then through hungry realm and through panonia and savava and the land of the buyers there he met loth there the kaiser of romberg who gave him an exceeding good welcome and fetched him a way leader through the whole of his realm and let hold cheapings for them according as they needed for all chaffer and when king sigurd came to slezwick in denmark then earl eilith gave him a glorious banquet and that was midsummer season in eithby he met nicholas the dain king who welcomed him full well and himself all of him north into jutland and gave him a ship with all dite which he had into norway fared king sigurd thus back to his realm and had good welcome and that was the talk of men that never had there been a more worshipful faring out of norway than was that and he was then twenty years of age he had been three winters on this faring king olaf his brother was then twelve winters old chapter fifteen of king eyestein king eyestein had wrought much in the land such as was profitable while king sigurd was a faring he set up a monk cloister at northness near to be organ and there to he laid michael wealth he let build michael's church the goodliest of stone minsters he let build also in the king's garth the apostles church and there also he let build the great hall the statelyest treene house that has ever been done in norway he let build also a church at ag dearness and the work and a haven where earth was havenless he let do also nadois in the king's garth the nicholas church and that house was of much care done both of carvings and all other smith's work he also let do a church north in vagar in a logaland and laid a pre-bend there too chapter sixteen king eyestein got ion land king eyestein sent word to the wisest men in ion land and the mightiest and bad them to him and welcomed all who came with michael kindness and saw them off with friendly gifts and thus drew them to friendship towards him but whereas many of them got want to faring to him and take his gifts while to others some he sent gifts then that came not he got himself into full friendship with all the men who ruled over the land then he would talk with them and said how that the ions had done ill in that they had turned away from the kings of norway in fealty and scat gifts he took up the tale of how the ions had gone under the sway of king hay con ethyl stains foster son and were long siphons under the kings of norway he spoke of that with all how many needful things they might get from norway and how medical trouble it was for them to have to seek to the swede king for that which they needed and in such wise he brought about his matter that the ions themselves offered him and bad him that they would to turn them to fealty to king eyestein and that that was their need and necessity and their fellowship so drew together that the ions gave all the land under the dominion of king eyestein and first towards this end took mighty men their troth oath of all the folk siphons they fared to king eyestein and swore him the dominion and that has been held ever siphons so king eyestein won i am flying by wisdom not by onfall as had done some of his forefathers chapter 17 of king eyestein king eyestein was the good list of men to behold blue eyed and somewhat open eyed with flaxen hair and curly scarce of high middle stature wise of wit of much lore in all these laws to wit and details and man lore swift of counsel and wise of word and of the deftest spoken of all men the merriest and the meekest of mood dear to heart and well beloved of all the all folk he had to wife ingy björg the daughter of guðorm the son of stag Thorir their daughter was hype maria whom afterwards rude brand the son of shave few had to wife chapter 18 of ivar the son of ingy man king eyestein had in many ways bettered the law of the land's folk and he upheld much the law and made himself cunning of all law in norway and he was with all michael wise of wit by this matter may one mark how worshipful a man was king eyestein and our kind of friends and our thoughtful to seek after his friends what was to grieve them there was with him a man of iceland height ivar ingy man son wise and of great kin and a scald and the king was well with him and loving as is shown in this matter ivar fell ungleeful and when the king found that he called ivar to talk with him and asked him why he was so glad but before when thou work with us we had manifold gain of thy talk i'm not seeking this of thee because i want not that thou wilt be so wise a man as to know that i have done nothing amiss to thee tell me what is it he answered what it is lord i may not tell out then said the king then will i guess they're at are there any such men about that thou mayest not away with he said it was not that said the king deem as thou thou hast of me less honor than thou would he said it was not that the king spake hast thou seen any such thing as thou hast taken to heart and think is still he said that was not it said the king longest thou to fare to some other men or other lords he said that was not it the king said now the guest grows harder are there any women here or in other lands whom thou pinest for he said that so it was the king said be not heart sick there over so soon as spring is fair thou to iceland and i shall give thee wealth and nickel honor and my letters and seal that on to those men who have her matter in hand and i want that no such men are to be looked for as would not be swayed by my words of counsel or my threats answered ivar it goes heavier than that lord my brother has this woman then said the king turn we thence then i see read there too after you i shall fare a guesting fare thou with me and thou shalt see many courteous women and if they be not king born i shall get them to thy hand he answered the heavier it followed that when i see fair and darling women then am i reminded of that woman and then is my grief the more the king said then i shall give the rule and lands to play with all he answered i love it not then said the king i will give the goods then and fare thou hence to whatsoever land thou willest he said he willed it not then said the king now it becomes of the hardest to seek after this i've sought and tried as well as i know how but there is one thing left and that is little worth beside those which i have bitten thee already come every day when the boards are drawn to see me and if i be not sitting over waiting matters i will talk with thee about this woman in every manner wise that may come into my mind and i will give myself leisure there too that whilst betided that grief becomes lighter to men if it be talked over that shall also follow this that thou shall never fare hence the way giftless he answers that will i lord and have thou thanks for thy seeking and now however they do so if the king be not sitting over waiting matters then the king would talk with him and thus his grief was bettered and he gladdened again chapter 19 of king sigurd king sigurd was michael waxin red haired lordly of look though not goodly well waxin nimble of gait few spoken oftenest not meek good to friends fast in friendship not deft of speech devout of ways and stately mannered king sigurd was masterful and great in punishments an upholder of the law bounteous of wealth mighty and much renowned king oloth was a man high and slender fair to behold mary and meek of ways well befriended while these brethren were kings in norway they took off many burdens which the danes had laid on the people whilst fine the son of al fiver ruled in the land they became thereby mightily well beloved of the all folk and the great men with all chapter 20 king sigurd jerusalem fairer's dream so it is said that king sigurd fell into michael ungly and folk might have but little of his talk and he sat but short whilst over the drink that seemed heavy to the counselors and his friends and the court and they bad king eyestine lay some read to it if he might get to know what was the cause here out for now no men got any settlement of their affairs who sought him there too king eyestine answers so hard as it to talk about and to seek after it from the king but at the praying of men however it came to his promising to do this so once on a time he wakes this and asks what was the cause of his sadness that is now lord a grief to many men and we would what what brings it about or hast thou heard of any such tidings as may seem a great matter to thee king sigurd says that is not so is it then brother that thou wilt from the land and get the yet more of realm as did our father that he said was not it are there any men here in the land who have come in the way of thy wrath he said that was not so that will I then what if thou hast had a dream that bring of the imaginings he said that so it was tell it me then brother he answered I shall not tell thee unless thou unravel it even as it is for I shall can to know it all clearly if thou read it a right he said that lord is a very hard matter on both sides either to sit before thy wrath which will lie there on if the matter be not unraveled or that wronging and trouble which befalleth the folk as things are but I will read me to risk thy mercy though the unraveling be not to thy liking he answered that me dreamed and me thought that we three brethren were sitting all together in one chair before Christ church north in chipping and then me seemed walked out of the church the holy king Olaf our kinsman arrayed in his king's gear and was most glorious to look upon and blithe he went to king Olaf our brother and took him by the hand and spake to him blithely fair with me kinsman and me thought he walked with him into the church somewhat after he came out of the church and walked up to thee brother and bad thee go with him and was not so blithe asers siphons the two went into the church then did I hope he would come to meet me but that was not so then fell on me a nickel dread and feebleness and unrest and therewith I awoke king eyestine answered lord said he so I read it the chair betokens the reign of us brethren and whereas it seemed thee that king Olaf came with blithe-ness towards Olaf our brother then will he live the shortest and will have good to hand whereas he is well beloved and young and in few things hath he fallen and king Olaf will help him now whereas these seemed he came to meet me not the light blithely that betokens that I shall live some winters longer yet not to be old and I hope that his oversight will stand me instead whereas he came to me though not with the same light bloom as with Olaf whereas much have I befallen to trespass and the breaking of commandments but whereas thou thoughtest that his coming to thee was tarried that I guess will not mark thy parting from this world and it can be that thou wilt happen on some heavy ill whereas it besiemed thee as if some unbrightness laid itself upon thee and dread and I guess that thou wilt be the oldest of us and wilt the longest rule this realm then said king Sigurd well is it a read it and wisely and after this is it most like to go takes the king now to gladden chapter 21 king sigurd's wedding king sigurd got to wife mom frid the daughter of king herald the son of valdemar from home garth in the east the mother of king herald was queen gita the old the daughter of herald godwinson king of england the mother of mom frid was christian the daughter of the sweet king ingy the son of steinkel the sister mom frid was ingy bjord whom canute the lord had the wife who was the son of the dame king eric the good the son of swine wolfson the children of canute and ingy bjord were valdemar who took kingdom in denmark after swine erickson margaret christian and catron stig white leather had margaret to white and their daughter was christian whom the sweet king carl son of sorkler had to wipe in the story of sigurd the jewsland ferrer eisstein and olof part two chapter 11 through 21 section 64 of heims gringland by snorrie stirrelson translated by george pope morris and ira kerr magnussen this liberal box recording is in the public domain the story of sigurd the jewslam ferrer eisstein and olof part three chapter 22 through 32 chapter 22 here begins the tale of the things sigurd haranison fell out with ing sigurd he had been there on behalf of the kings for the sake of his affinity and long friendship and many good deeds which sigurd had done to the kings and he was a man most of marg and most befriended but now it came to pass as often will be that evil men and sick with envy rather than full with goodness bored into king sigurd's ears that sigurd haranison would make his own out of the thin scat more than befitted fair measure and on this matter they harp until king sigurd laid enmity on him and sent for him and when he came to meet the king the king spake i look not for this that thou which so reward me said he for a great thief and honors as to make mine thine and have for thyself a greater share thereof than what is allowed to thee said sigurd it is not true what has been said to thee hereof such a share thereof have I had as thy leave allows the king said this alone will not avail thee the matter will have to be talked over first more stoutly ere it be left and there at they parted a little after the king by the talking over of his friends took the case to a moat in Björgen and would make sigurd haranison outlaw now when things had come to such a pass and a trouble so mikkel then fares he to find king eyestine and tells him with what mikkel fierceness king sigurd would carry on the case against him and crave with him his overlooking king eyestine said it was a troublesome matter to bid him to gain say his own brother said there was long way between his backing up of the case and going against it and said that they would both be owners he and king sigurd but for the sake of thy need and our affinity I may put in some words so he met king sigurd and prayed him for peace for the man told him the affinity there was between them in that sigurd haranison had to wife ski all for their father's sister and told him that he would boot what misliked the king though he held not that he was soothly guilty and he bad the king called to mind their long standing friendship king sigurd said it showed more of rule to punish such matters then said king eyestine if brother thou wilt follow up the law and punish such a matter after the ordinances of the land then it would be rightest that sigurd should avail him of his witnesses and this is a matter to doom at a thing not at a moat for the case looks to the land's law not to birch i'll write then spake king sigurd may be the case is due king eyestine even as thou sayest and if this be not law then we shall plead the case at a thing there upon the kings parted each of them thought hereof his own way then king sigurd summoned this case to the earnest thing and is minded to have the case through there king eyestine also came thither and sought to the thing and when the case fared forth to doom then went there to king eyestine before the case should fall on sigurd haranison then king sigurd called on the lawman to lay down their doom but king eyestine answered in this way that deem i that there will be here men so wise and well learned in the willows of norway as to know that it behooves not to doom a landed man outlaw at this thing and for this now the case according to law so that to all it seemeth soothly then king sigurd said michael of championship layest thou on this case king eyestine and it may be that more toil is before us ere it be gone through then was deemed thereof yet nonetheless shall we hold on with it and feign would i now that he be be guilted in the homeland of his birth then king eyestine spake few will the matters be which shall not be carried through if thou wilt follow them up so many great things as thou hast wrought and here is it to be looked for that but few men will stand against thee and small at this thing they parted so that nothing was done in the case after that king sigurd summons gula thing together and seeks thither himself king eyestine also seeks the thing and now many meetings are summoned and held of wise men and the case ransacked before lawmen now king eyestine flitted forth this that all the men who were charged with guilt were in the frost of things law and the deeds had been done in heloga land and he voids the case and there at they parted and were much raw then king eyestine fares north through thrandheim but king sigurd summons to him all landed men and landed men's house calls and calls out from every folkland much folk of the bonders all from the south country and a mickle host drew to him and he brings the folk north along the land and seeks right away north to heloga land and will so fiercely go through with it as to make sigurd hranison and outlaw north there in his kin land and he summons all heloga landers and nom dame folk to a thing in haraaf nista king eyestine arrayed himself together from cheaping with much folk and seeks to the thing he then took over by hand fast from sigurd hranison plant and defense in the case at this thing both sides split it forth their case then seeks king eyestine of the lawman where those things were in norway where at it was lawful for bonders to doom the cases of kings if one king brought us suit against the other i bring forth that case with witnesses that king sigurd has the case against me and not against sigurd hranison the lawmen say that king's suits must be dealt with at the air thing in the doys king eyestine said that deemed i that so it would be and that the word the case must turn and said the king that even there he would try for a right doom in the case of sigurd hranison spake king sigurd so much as thou wilt make matters heavy and unhandy for me so much shall i follow them up stoutly and with things thus standing they part seek now both sides south to cheaping and there was summoned and eight folks thing king eyestine was then in the town and had a right nickel company but king sigurd lay abroad his ships but when the folk should go to the thing then truce was set up folk had come in and the case should be pleaded then stood up burgthor son of spine bridge foot and brought forward witness that sigurd hranison had hidden away some of the thin scat then stood up king eyestine and said although this charge which thou now bearest forth be true yet i know not however for a truth what sort of witness this is and though it should be that that be foreproven yet has this case been brought to not already at three law things and at a moat for a fourth so now i call upon the men of the law court to doom sigurd sackless of the guilt and so it was done then spake king sigurd see i that king eyestine has brought forward law quibbles about which i know nothing now there is that one plane left unto which i am more want than king eyestine and that one shall now be pleaded and he turns away now and to his ships and let's strike the tilts and laid all the host out to the home and held a thing there and told the host that the next morning they shall make for illa wall and go ashore and fight with king eyestine but in the evening when as king sigurd sat at the meat board on his ship then was he aware of not ere a man fell down on the deck in the foreroom and took him by the foot and lo there was sigurd renison and he begged king sigurd to deal with his matter even as he would then bishop magnate came forth and queen mom frid and many other chieftains and prayed for life and limb for sigurd renison and for their prayer king sigurd took him up and took bail from him and set him amongst his men and had him with himself into the land in the autumn king sigurd gave leave to sigurd renison to bear north to his home and king sigurd gave him a shri volti on his own behalf and was his friend ever afterwards after this was never much dealing but tweaks the two brethren nor bliveness or any loving kindness chapter 23 the death of king olof king olof took a sickness which led him to bane and he is buried in christ's church in the dois and he was most bemoaned syphons the two kings eyestine and sigurd ruled over the land but before these three brethren had been kings together for twelve winters for five winters syphons king sigurd came back to the land for seven winters before king olof was of seventeen winters when he died and that was on the ninth of the callons of january chapter 24 magnus the blind born when as king eyestine had been for one winter east in the land and king sigurd in the north king eyestine sat long in the winter tide in sarpsburg there was a mighty bonder height olof a dale a wealthy man he dwelt in o mord in michael dale and had two children his son was height heikon falk and his daughter borgue hill the fairest of women a wise woman and of michael lore olof and his children were long in the winter tide at burg and borgue hill was ever a talking with the king and folk would be speaking things much apart as to their friendship but in the summer after king eyestine went north into the land but king sigurd fared east and the next winter thereafter king sigurd spent east in the land and sat mostly at king's rock and much further that cheaping stead there did he a michael castle and let dig about a michael dyke it was made of turf and stone he let house within the castle and do there a church the holy cross he let be at king's rock wherein he did not keep the oaths he had sworn in Jerusalem land but he put forward the tithe and most all other matters he had sworn to but whereas he set up the cross east at the land's end he thought that would be ward of all the land yet was that the most unready to set that holy relic so much under the power of he the men as was proven sithons borgue hill the daughter of olof heard that twitter how that men spake evil about her and king eyestine concerning their talk and their friendship so she went to burg and fasted there unto iron and bore iron for this matter and was well cleared but when king sigurd heard this he rode that in one day which was a michael two days ride and came down upon dale to olof and was there through the night and he took borgue hill and dealt with her as a concubine and had her away with him their son was magnus he was soon sent for fostering north into haloga land to vid cun son of john and there he grew up magnus was of all men the fairest and swift of growth and strength chapter 25 man matching between the kings king eyestine and king sigurd were both on a winter of feasting in the uplands and each had their his own stead but as there was but uh short way betwixt the steds whereas the kings should take feast then did men that read that they should both be together at the banquets each at the other's stead turn and turn about and for the first time they were both together at a stead owned of king eyestine now in the evening when men took to drinking then was the ale not good and men were hushed then spade king eyestine though men be hushed it is more of ale want for men to make them glee get we some ale joints that will yet take root for the past time of men brother sigurd that will seem to all men most meet that we heave up some game some talk king sigurd answered somewhat shortly be thou as toxin as it pleases thee but let me hold my peace for thee then spade king eyestine that ale want have off been that men should match them with men and so will I let it be here then king sigurd held his peace I see said king eyestine that I must begin this joints and I shall take thee brother for my match and this is my reason there too that we have both an equal name equal land and I make no difference between our kindred or our breeding then answered king sigurd mind is thou not that I used to throw thee on thy back when I would and thou were a year older said king eyestine I mind me no less that thou never couldst play such game wherein was nimbleness spade king sigurd then mind is thou how it fared in the swimming with us I might have drowned thee if I had will king eyestine answered I swam not shorter than thou nor was I worse a diving swimmer I also knew how to fare on ice bones so that no one did I know who could champion me therein but thou newest did know more than a neat king sigurd answered a more lordly sport and a more useful I deem it to ken well the bow I am minded to think that thou canst not draw my bow though thou spurned thy foot therein answered king eyestine as bow strong as thou I am not but less sundreth our straight shooting and much better can I on snowshoes than thou and that has been called time are gone at least a good sport king sigurd said this deem I the lordlier matter by a great dear the he who shall be over man and over other men be nickel in the flock strong and weapon deaf better than other men and easy to see and easy to ken whereas most are together king eyestine said that is no less a thing to be known by that a man be fair and such and one is easily ken in a man throng and that also me thanks lordly for fairness that's the best array can I also law much better than thou and on whatsoever we have to talk I am much the more smooth spoken king sigurd said maybe thou hast mastered more law quibbles for I had been other things to do and no one taunts thee of smooth speech but this say many that thou art not right fast of a word and that little is to mark what thou mayest be height that thou speakest according to them who may be near beside and that is not kingly king eyestine said cause of it that when men bear their cases before me that think I of this first so to make an end of each man's case as best may like him but then comes off the other who has the case against the first then often things are drawn in that make matters middling to the liking of both often is that I promise what I am bidden for that I will that all should fare feign from the finding of me I see another choice if I would have it as thou dost to promise ill to all for I hear no one taunt thee for not keeping thy promises king sigurd said that has been the talk of men that the journey on which I fared out of the land was somewhat lordly but thou saddest at home meanwhile as a daughter of thy father king eyestine answers now thou didst nip the boil I should not have wait this talk if I had known not how to answer this near to this it seemed to me that I dowered thee from home as my sister ere thou were bound for the journey king sigurd said thou must have heard it that I had battles right many in circland which thou must have heard tell us and that I won the victory in all and many kind of precious things the like whereof never before came hither to the land I was thought of most worshipful there whereas I met the noblest men but I think that thou has not yet cast off the home ligard king eyestine said I've heard it that thou had sundry battles in the outlands but more profitable for our land was it that I was doing meantime five churches I reared from the ground so and I made a haven at our dear nest which erst was desert though every man's way laid there when he fared north or south along the land I made with all the tower in sin home sound and the hall in bergen while thou worked brittling blew men for the fiend in circlan I deemed that of little gain for our realm king sigurd said I fared in despairing the longest out to jordan and swam over the river but out on the bank there is a cops and there in the cops I tied a knot and spoke their overwords that thou should loose it brother or have else such like spell words as thereon were laid king eyestine said not will I loose that knot which thou didst tie for me but I might have tied thee such a knot as much less which thou have loosed when thou sales in one ship amidst of my host when as thou camest into the land after that both held their peace and were raw either of them more things there were in the dealings of the brothers from which might be seen how each drew himself forward and his case and how each would be greater than the other yet peace held betwixt them while both lived chapter 26 of king sigurd's sickness king sigurd was in the uplands at a certain feast and a bath was made for him but when the king was in the bath and the tub was tilted over then thought he that a fish swam in the bath beside him and he was smitten with laughter so michael that there followed wandering of mine and afterwards this came upon him much often rogna hill the daughter of king magnus bairford her brother gave to herald keysia he was the son of eric the good the dain king and their sons were magnus olof canute and herald chapter 27 the death of king eyestine king eyestine let do a michael ship in the doys it was made both as to size and fashion after that as the long worm had been which king olof trigbison had let build there was also a dragon's head of four and a crook aft and either done with gold the ship was michael the board but stem and stern were deemed to be somewhat less than had borne the best you also let bill there in the doys ship sheds both so big that therein they were peerless and done with all of the best stuff and smithy nobly well king eyestine was at a feast at stim at house dead and there he got a sudden sickness that led him to bane he died on the fourth of the columns of september and his body was flitted north to cheaping and there is he laid in earth in christ church and that is the tale of men that over no man's body has ever such a many of men in norway stood in sorrow as over king eyestines since the death of king magnus the son of king olof the holy king eyestine was king for 20 winters in norway and after the death of king eyestine segerd was sold king in the land while he lived chapter 28 the small lands christened nicholas the dame king the son of spine the son of wolf gat sythens margaret the daughter of ingy whom formerly king magnus barefoot had had and their sons were height nicholas and magnus the strong king nicholas sent words to king segerd the jerusalem fairer and bad him give him all help and strength from his realm to fare with king nicholas to the east round sweet realm to the small lands for to christened folk there for they who dwelt there held not to christened them though some had taken christening there was at this time in the sweet realm much folk even and much ill christened whereas there were then certain kings such as cast away christened them and upheld the blood offerings even as did blot spine or sythens eric the year ceiling king segerd behight the fairing and the two kings made tristan error sound sythens king segerd bat out all men host from all norway both the folk and ships and when that host came together he had fully three hundreds of ships king nicholas was by far the first at the tristan and the both long there then the danes made ill murmur and said that the northmen would not come sythens they break up the hosting fared the king away and all the host sythens came king segerd there and it liked him ill but they held east to swimmer oise and had there a house thing and king segerd spoke of the loose wordedness of king nicholas and they were all of one mind that they should do some more work in his land for that sake then lifted they that thorp which is height too much thorp that lies a short way from lond and afterwards held thence east to the cheaping sted height calmer and harried there and so to the small lands and laid little fine on the small lands fifteen hundreds of neat and the small land folk took christened them sythens king segerd turns his host back and came into his realm with many big dear things and much plunder which he had gathered in that journey and this hosting was called calmer hosting this was one summer before the michelmark this one only hosting king segerd rode while he was king chapter 29 out for raren curt fell that befell on a time that king segerd went from a guild house to even song and men were drunk and much married they sat outside the church and sang the even song and the singing was unhandy and the king said what carl is that who there sits by the church clad but in a fell they said they knew not the king said he makes wild all the wisdom that wields the fell clad carl there then the carl comes forward and says deem i folk here may know us in a fell that somewhat curt is but this thing all uncomely now do i let the fit me what should i have safe touters thou king would yet be bounteous if me thou now wouldst honor with a cloak were somewhat barren the king said come to me tomorrow where i shall be at the drink and so the night wears next morning the icelander whose sithons was called for raren curt fell fared to the drinking chamber but a man stood outside the chamber and had a horn in his hand in spake icelander that spake the king that thou should make a diddy before thou wentest inside if thou wouldst get any friendly gift from him and sing about that man who hideth hacon cirkson who was called suet neck until thereof in the diddy the man who talked to the raren was called arnie for sure skew thereupon both walked in and the raren walked up to the king and sang oh fight strong king of thran folk some gift thou may be hideous when met we could i do thee some stave upon cirks kinsman fee bounteous king thou told us that hacon neck of suet he height but me behooves it to tell of that full clearly the king spoke that said i never and thou wilt be mocked and that is read that hacon shape thee white here too so fare thou into his company hacon said welcome shall he be amongst us and i see whence this cometh so he seats the icelander amongst them and now were they all married but as the day wore and the drink began somewhat to take hold on them hacon said deemest thou icelander thou ois me some boot or distout not think that they set somewhat of a wily trick on thee he answers cirks i deem it that i owe thee boot hacon answers then we shall be at one again if thou work another did he on arnie he said he was ready for that and then they go over to where sat arnie and the raren sang the foul mouth skew of four sure songs wide midfolk hath wafted in eagerly hath cast forth the clay of the urn the ancient thou skew of words of wary scarce didst thou feed one crow there in cirkland there thou bearst afraid the hood of hog me arnie leaped up straight way and drew his sword and would fall on him hacon spake it that he should forebear and said that he might look to it that he should bear the lower lot if they were to deal together then went to raren before the king and told him he had wrought a dropper on him and that him harkened and that the king granted him and that is called the dropper of kurt though then the king asked him what he was minded to do himself and he said he had proposed to go south to rome and the king gave them much money and let him come to see him and when he came back said he would then do honor to him chapter 30 of king sigurd and otar brightening it is told that on a high tide with sunday to wit king sigurd sat with a great throng of men and many of his friends but when as he came into his high seat saw him in that he sat with a great faintness upon him and a heavy countenance and many men were afraid what way this might go the king looked over the folk glared with his eyes and looked about on the benches then he took the book the deer which he had had into the land all written it was in golden letters and not more precious had ever come into the land in one book now the queen sat beside him then spake king sigurd much may shift in man's life says he had two things which me thought best when i came into the land this was this book here and the queen and now me thinks each is worse than the other and of all things that are mine own these seem to me the very worst the queen knows not how she is for a goat's horn stands out of her head and the better i deemed her a four-time so much the worse i find her now there with the cast the book forth into the fire that had been made and smoked the queen a cheek clout she wept the king's woe more than her own grief stood that man before the king who hight a tar rightling a bondor's son and candle swing and should be us serving black of hair he was little and nimble dark of hue and courteous with all he ran there too and takes the book which the king had cast into the fire and held it up and said unlike to these were those days lord when thou sales in pride and fairness to norway and all thy friends were feigned and ran to meet thee and ye said thee for king with the most of worship for now i'll come to thee today a many of thy friends and may not be married for the sake of thy woe and lack of strength be now so kind great king and take this wholesome read first gladden the queen against whom thou hast done bickle amiss and then all thy friends around then said kings figured what will thou learn me read thou the wretchedest caught carl's son thou of the littlest kin and therewith he sprang to his feet and drew his sword and made as if he would hew him down he stood straight and flinched not in any way but the king turned the sword flatlings as he came down towards the head and then first he reared it with both hands and then slapped it flat on the flank of him syphons he held his piece and sat down in the high seat and then all men with all held their peace then the king looked about and milder than erst and spake syphons late may one prove men what like they be says the king here sat my friends landed men and marshals table swings and all the best men in the land and none did to me so well as he did little worth as ye may think and beside you he it was who now loved me best even atar brightly whereas when i came in here a wood man and would spoil mine own dearling he bettered that to me and on the other hand dreaded not his bane syphons affair and he said and in such wise died his words in that they were to the worship of me but those matters he told not whereby my anger might be eat all that he dropped down and yet might he soothfully have uttered it yet with all his speech was so frank as none so wise a man was at hand as might have spoken defter syphons i leaped up a witless and made as i would hew him down but so great heart he was as if there were not to fear and when i saw that i let the d go by so and meet as he was there too now shall you my friends know wherewith i shall reward him if the two he has been a candle page but now he shall be my landed man and that with all will follow it which shall be no lesser matter that in a while he will be a man most of mark and amongst my landed men go thou into the seat beside the landed men and serve no longer syphons he became one of the most renowned in the norway for many good matters and glorious chapter 31 king sigurd's dream king sigurd was on a time feasting at some stead of his but in the morning when the king was clad he was few spoken and unmarried and his friends were adred less once more there would be wandering come on him but his steward was a wise man and bold and craved speech of the king and asked if he had heard any tidings so big that they stood in the way of his gladness or whether it were that the feast liked a meal where if there were any other of such matters as men might better king sigurd said that none of those things he had spoken of brought it about but what brings it about says he is that i have in mind the dream which came before me last night lord says he would that that dream were a good one but i would faint hear it the king said the thought i was out of doors here in judar and i looked out on to the main and there i saw michael darkness and there were goings on there in and when it drew nigh hither it seemed to me that that was one michael tree and the limbs waited a lot and the roots in the sea when the tree came aland then it break and drove away and drifted wide about the land both about the mainland and the out isles scaries and strands and then sight was given to me and the thought i saw overall norway outward along the sea and i saw that in every creek were driven fragments of this tree and they were most small and but some bigger then answered the steward this dream it is most like that thou wilt by self deal best therewith and we would faint here thine a reading then said the king that miss seems like is that it will betoken the coming of some man into this land who shall make him fast here and that his offspring will be drifted wide about this land and be very much uneven in greatness chapter 32 of aslack cock so it befell on a time that king seger sat with many good men and noble and was hard of mood that was friday eve and the steward asked what meat should be dieted the king answered what about flesh but so great in all there was of him that none dared gain say him now we're all unmarried men got ready for the board and in came the service hot flesh meat and all men were hushed and soared the king's harm but there the meat was signed a man took up the word height aslack cock he had been with king seger in his outland fair no man was he of great kin quick he was and little of body and when he saw that no man would answer the king he spake lord said he what reeks on the dish before the the king answers what would style it were aslack cock or what seemeth it to thee he answers that miss seems what i would not it were flesh meat to it the king said what though it be aslack cock he answers grievous is such like to walk that so sorely should see amiss that king who so michael honor has gotten for his journey in the world otherwise behindest thou then when thou steppet is out of jordan steppets out of jordan and hats bathed in that same water has got himself and has to palm in thine hand and across on thy breast than to eat flesh meat on a friday and if smaller men did such it would be to them for big punishment and not so well as the court man does is to be looked for whereas none cometh forth but i a little man to speak out on such a matter the king was hushed and took not then of the meat and as the meat meal wore the king bad take away the flesh meat dish then came in the meat which behooved him well and the king took to be somewhat gladder as the meat meal wore and he drank men spake that aslack should look to himself but he said that not such he would do i know not what that will avail for sooth to say it is good to die now that i have brought it about to stave the king off from a wickedness but he is free to slay me in the evening the king called him to him and said who egged the on aslack cock to speak such bare words to me amidst the throng of men lord said he numbered i myself the king said now what thou want to know what thou shalt have in return for thy boldness or what thou deemest thyself worthy of he answers will thou reward it well lord then am i feign if it be otherwise then is it thy matter then said the king thou shalt have less reward therefore than thou art worthy of i shall give thee three manners but that way things went then as might be deemed the unlikelier that thou shalt save me from a great unhapp rather than my landed men from whom i was worthy of much good so ended this affair end of the story of sigurd the jurislam fairer eyes dine in olof part three chapter 22 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