KINGS OF NORWAY. 197 XII. you please ; but other business is more urgent. Go to sagax the land as quickly as j^ossible to help thy brother; for the Rogaland people are going to hang him." Then said the king, " God give us luck, Sigurd ! Call my trumpeter, and let him call the people all to land, and to meet me." The king sprang on the land, and all who knew him followed him to where the gallows was being erected. The king instantly took Harald to him ; and all the people gathered to the king in full armour, as they heard the trumpet. Then the king ordered that Swend and all his comrades should depart from the country as outlaws ; but by the intercession of good men the king was prevailed on to let them remain and hold their properties, but no mulct should be paid for Swend's wound. Then Sigurd Sigurdsson asked if the king wished that he should go forth out of the country. " That will I not," said the king ; " for I can never be without thee." There was a young and poor man called Kolbein ; S^t^^^j and Thora, King Sigurd the Crusader's mother, had of King ordered his tongue to be cut out of his mouth, and for ^J^l ^^^" no other cause than that this young man had taken a ""^n whose n n ^ 1 ' 17 1 1*11 tongue had piece 01 meat out oi the kmg-mother s tub, which he been cut said the cook had given him, and which the cook had ^^^ J^^^ not ventured to serve up to her. This man had long gone about speechless. So says Einar Skuleson in Olaf 's ballad : — " The proud rich dame, for little cause. Had the lad's tongue cut from his jaws : The helpless man, of speech deprived, His dreadful sore wound scarce survived. A few weeks since at Lid was seen. As well as ever he had been. The same poor lad — to speech restored By Olaf's power, whom he adored." Afterwards the young man came to Nidaros, and 3
