204 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA XII. to go away, as it would be most for his advantage. The kino' said, " Little did I think that thou wouldst leave me like the others;" and turned from her, and became red as blood in the face. She went away nevertheless. His illness now increased, and he died of it ; and his body was removed for burial to Opslo. He died the night before Mary's-mass, and was buried in Halvart's church, where he was laid in the stone- wall without the choir on the south side. His son Magnus was in the town at the time, and took pos- session of the whole of the king's treasury when King Sigurd died. Sigurd had been king of Norway twenty-seven years from the death of his father Mag- nus Barefoot, and was forty years of age when he died. The time of his reign was good for the country; for there was peace, and crops were good.
