KINGS OF NORWAY. 53 misdeed by some mischance or other. And now shall saga ix. ye come to hear a well-deserved vengeance, and a true miracle. It happened, namely, in the same hour, that the count became blind of both eyes, and the bread which she had shoved into the oven was turned into stone! Of these stones some are noAv in Saint Olaf's temple, and in other places ; and since that time Olafs- mas has been always held holy in Denmark. West in Vallancl*, a man had such bad health that Chapter he became a cripple, and went on his knees and elbows, j^j^g " One day he was upon the road, and had fallen asleep, ^l^^'^ miracle on He dreamt that a gallant man came up to him, and a cripple, asked him where he was going. When he named the neighbouring town, the man said to him, " Go to Saint Olaf's church that stands in London, and there thou shalt be cured." Thereupon he awoke, and went straightway to inquire the road to Olaf's church in London. At last he came to London Bridge, and asked the men of the castle if they could tell him where Olaf's church was ; but they replied, there were so many churches that they could not tell to whom each of them was consecrated. Soon after a man came up, and asked him where he wanted to go, and he answered to Olaf's church. Then said the man, "We shall both go together to Olaf's church, for I know the way to it." Thereupon they went over the bridge to the shrine where Olaf's church was ; and when they came to the gates of the church- yard the man mounted over the half-door that was in the gate, but the cripple rolled himself in, and rose up immediately sound and strong : when he looked about him his conductor had vanished. King Harald had built a merchant town in the East Chapter at Opslof , where he often resided ; for there was good xi^^' supply from the extensive cultivated district wide Haraid's foray in
- The west coast of France. Denmark,
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