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 192 CHRONICLE OF THE saga vii. Thord got Isrid. Afterwards Thord was the king's faithful friend, and also many of Thord's relations and friends, who followed his footsteps. From thence King Olaf returned south through Thoten and Hade- land, from thence to Ringerige, and so to Yiken. In sprino- he went to Tunsberg, and staid there while there^was the market-meeting, and a great resort of people. He then had his vessels rigged out, and had many people about him. Chapter The same summer came Stein, a son of the lagman SSfcS Skopte, from Iceland, in compliance with King Olaf 's landers. message • and with him Thorod, a son of Snorro the godar, and Gellir, a son of Thorkel Eyolfsson, and Egil, a son of Sidu Hall, brother of Thorstein Hall. Gudmund Eyolfsson had died the winter before. These Iceland men repaired to King Olaf as soon as they had opportunity ; and when they met the king they were well received, and all were in his house. The same summer King Olaf heard that the ship was missing which he had sent the summer before to the Faroe Islands after the scatt, and nobody knew what had become of it. The king fitted out another ship, manned it, and sent it to the Faroe Islands for the scatt. They got under weigh, and proceeded to sea ; but as little was ever heard of this vessel as of the former one, and many conjectures were made about what had become of them. Chapter During this time Canute the Great, called by some Here be- ' Canute the Old, was king of England and Denmark. gins the Canute the Great was a son of Swend Haraldsson story or Canute the Forked-beard, whose forefathers, for a long course of generations, had ruled over Denmark. Harald Gorms- son, Canute's grandfather, had conquered Norway after the fall of Harald Greyskin, Gunhild's son, had taken scatt from it, and had placed Earl Hakon the Great to defend the country. The Danish king, Swend Haraldsson, ruled also over Norway, and