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 120 EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY. ' visions to. You see now that the protecting powers, ' who used and got good of all that, were the mice ' and adders, the reptiles and lizards ; and surely they ' do ill who trust to such, and will not abandon this ' wives and daughters, but never hang them hereafter 'between us to choose upon: either accept Chris- ' since he will not help us, we will believe in the God ' whom thou believest in." 'Then all received Christianity. The Bishop 'baptised Gudbrand and his son. King Olaf and ' who met as enemies parted as friends. And after- Olaf was by no means an unmerciful man, — much the reverse where he saw good cause. There was a
 * folly. Take now your gold and ornaments that are
 * lying strewed on the grass, and give them to your
 * upon istocks and stones. Here are two conditions
 * tianity, or fight this very day, and the victory be to
 * them to whom the God we worship gives it."
 * Then Dale Gudbrand stood up and said, " We
 * have sustained great damage upon our God ; but
 * Bishop Sigurd left behind them teachers ; and they
 * wards Gudbrand built a church in the valley.'*
 * Snorro, il pp. 156-161.