KINGS OF NORWAY. 143 prayers. Now the burning of the church did cease, sagajci. by the help of Ahnighty God ; but the insane man got sore eyes on the following night, and he lay there until King Olaf entreated God Almighty to be mer- ciful to him ; after which he recovered in the same church. It happened once in the merchant town that a ^xiv woman was brought to the place where the holy Miracle of King Olaf reposes. She was so miserably shaped, the"saint^ that she was altoo:ether crumpled up; so that both onaiame r • 1 1 • T^ 1 woman. her feet lay in a circle against her loms. But as she was diligent in her prayers, often weeping and making vows to King Olaf, he cured her great inhrmities ; so that feet, legs, and other limbs straightened, and every limb and part came to the right use for which they were made. Before she could not creep there, and now she went away active and brisk to her family and home. , When King Magnus had been nine years king of Chapter Norway, he equipped himself to go out of the country War in j with a great force. He sailed out into the West sea ^^^-^"^ with the finest men who could be got in Norway. All the powerful men of the country followed him ; such as Sigurd Hranesson and his brother Ulf, Yid- kunner Johnsson, Dag Eilifsson, Sorker of Sogn, Eyvind Olboge the king's marshal, and many other great men. With all this armament the king sailed west to the Orkney Islands, from whence he took with him Earl Erlend's sons, Magnus and Erling, and then sailed to the southern Hebudes. But as he lay under the Scotch land, Magnus Erlendsson * ran away in the night from the king's ship, swam to the shore, escaped into the woods, and came at last to the Scotch king's court. King Magnus sailed to
- This was Saint Magnus, earl of Orkney, to whom the cathedral
of Kirkwall is dedicated, and whose miracles are equal to Saint Olaf 's.
