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 370 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA VIII. Well may I keep within my breast A day for him in holy rest, — My upraised hands a golden ring On every branch * bear from that king." chapter Thorer Hund left the country immediately after of Thorer King Olaf 's fall. He went all the way to Jerusalem, Hund - and many people say he never came back. Thorer Hund had a son called Sigurd, father of Ranveig who was married to John, a son of Arne Arneson. Their children were Yidkun of Biorko, Sigurd Hund, Erling, and Jardthrud. Chapter Harek of Thiotto sat at home in his farm, till OHhe 11 ' King Magnus Olafsson came to the country and was murder of ma de king. Then Harek went south to Drontheim to Thiotto. King Magnus. At that time Asmund Gankelsson was in the king's house. When Harek came to Ni- daros, and landed out of the ship, Asmund was stand- ing with the king in the gallery outside the loft, and both the king and Asmund knew Harek when they saw him. " Now," says Asmund to the king, " T will pay Harek for my father's murder." He had in his hand a little thin hatchet. The king looked at him, and said, " Rather take this axe of mine." It was thick, and made like a club. " Thou must know, Asmund," added he, " that there are hard bones in the old fellow." Asmund took the axe, went down, and through the house, and when he came down to the cross road Harek and his men coining up met him. Asmund struck Harek on the head, so that the axe penetrated to the brains ; and that was Harek's death- wound. Asmund turned back directly to the king's house, and the whole edge of the axe was turned with the blow. Then said the king, " What would thy axe have done, for even this one, I think, is spoilt?" King Magnus afterwards gave him a fief generosity of the king.
 * The fingers, the branches of the hand, bore golden fruits from the