KINGS OF NORWAY. 133 skiff drawn over the strand at Cantire, and shipped saga xi. the rudder of it. The king himself sat in the stern- sheets, and held the tiller ; and thus he appropriated to himself the land that lay on the larboard side. Cantire is a great district, better than the best of the southern isles of the Hebudes, excepting Man ; and there is a small neck of land between it and the main- land of Scotland, over which long-ships are often drawn. Kins: Mao^nus was all the winter in the southern Chapter . XII isles, and his men went over all the fiords of Scotland, Death oV rowins; within all the inhabited and uninhabited isles, the Earisof ^ . , ' Orkney. and took possession for the king of Norway of all the islands west of Scotland. King Magnus contracted in marriage his son Sigurd to Biadmynia, King Mo- riartak's daughter. Moriartak was a son of the Irish king Thiolfa, and ruled over Connaught. Magnus gave his son the title of king, and set him over the Orkneys and Hebudes ; and gave him in charge of his relation Hakon Paulsson. The summer after. King Magnus, with his fleet, returned east to Norway. Earl Erlend* died of sickness at Nidaros, and is buried there; and Earl Paul* died in Bergen. Skopte Ogmundsson, a grandson of Thorberg, was a gallant lenderman, who dwelt at Gizka in Sondmor, and was married to Gudrun, a daughter of Thord Folasson, who carried King Olaf 's banner at Stikla- stad when he fell. Their children were Ogmund, Finn, Thord, and Thora, who was married to Asolf Skulesson. Skopte' s and Gudrun' s sons were the most promising and popular men in their youth. Steinkel the Swedish king died about the same time Chapter as the two Haralds f fell, and the king who came after Quarrels him in Sweden was called Hakon. Afterwards Inge, ^agmS
- The two earls of Orkney, Erlend and Paul.
-|- The two Haralds meant are Harald Haardrade of Norway, and the English king Harald Godwinsson, who fell at Hastings. K 3
