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 350 SAGA VII. Chapter CCLIX. Ot King Olaf's miracles. CHRONICLE OF THE unbelief. After the bishop's recognition, with the king's approbation and the decision of the Thing, it was determined that King Olaf should be considered a man truly holy ; whereupon his body was transported into Clement's church, and a place was prepared for it near the high altar. The coffin was covered with costly cloth, and stood under a gold embroidered tent. Many kinds of miracles were soon wrought by King Olaf's holy remains. In the sand-hill where King Olaf's body had lain on the ground a beautiful spring of water came up, and many human ailments and infirmities were cured by its waters. Things were put in order around it, and the water ever since has been carefully preserved. There was first a chapel built, and an altar conse- crated, where the king's body had lain; but now Christ's church stands upon the spot. Archbishop Eystein* had a high altar raised upon the spot where the king's grave had been, when he erected the great temple which now stands there ; and it is the same spot on which the altar of the old Christ church had stood. It is said that Olaf's church stands on the spot on which the empty house had stood in which King Olaf's body had been laid for the night. The place over which the holy remains of King Olaf were carried up from the vessel is now called Olaf's Road, and is now in the middle of the town. The bishop adorned King Olaf's holy remains, and cut his nails and hair ; for both grew as if he had still been alive. So says Sigvat the scald : — " I lie not, when I say the king Seemed as alive in every thing: His nails, his yellow hair still growing, And round his ruddy cheek still flowing, Drontheim, died 1188. He built the present cathedral of Drontheim.
 * Archbishop Ey stein, or Augustinus, the second archbishop of