172 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA XII. thee, and especially when there are but few and small folks to oppose one who has carried through such great things." And thus they parted, without any thing being concluded in the case. Thereafter King Sigurd called together a Gula Thing, went him- self there, and summoned to him many high chiefs. King Ey stein came there also with his suite * ; and many meetings and conferences were held among peo- ple of understanding concerning this case, and it was tried and examined before the lagmen. Now King Ey stein objected that all the parties summoned in any cases tried here belonged to the Thing-district ; but in this case the deed and the parties belonged to Halogaland. The Thing accordingly ended in doing nothing, as King Eystein had thus made it incompe- tent. The kings parted in great wrath ; and King Eystein went north to Drontheim. King Sigurd, on the other hand, summoned to him all lendermen, and also the house-servants of the lendermen, and named out of every district a number of the bonders from the south parts of the country, so that he had col- lected a large army about him ; and proceeded with all this crowd northwards alone: the coast to Halo- galand, and intended to use all his power to make Sigurd Hranesson an outlaw among his own relations. Eor this purpose he summoned to him the Halogaland and Numadal people, and appointed a Thing at Kraf- nesta. King Eystein prepared himself also, and pro- ceeded with many people from the town of Nidaros to the Thing, where he made Sigurd Hranesson, by hand-shake before witnesses, deliver over to him the following and defending this case. At this Thing both the kings spoke, each for his own side. Then King Eystein asks the lagmen, where that law was
- The French word suite seems connected with the old Norinan or
Icelandic word sveitir of the same meaning.
