Page:The Heimskringla; or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway Vol 3.djvu/311

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KINGS OF NORWAY. 299 Stiklestad ; and lie also related how the sword since saga xv. that time had gone from one to another. This was told to the emperor, who called the man before him to whom the sword belonged, and gave him three times as much gold as the sword was worth ; and the sword itself he had laid in Saint Olaf 's church, which the V^eringers supported, where it has been ever since over the altar. There was a lenderman of Norway- while Harald Gille's sons, Eystein, Inge, and Sigurd lived, who was called Eindrid Unge; and he was in Constantinople when these events took place. He told these circumstances in Norway, according to what Einar Skuleson says in his song about King Olaf the Saint, in which these events are sung.