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 372 CHRONICLE OF the saga viu. that the king took little notice of Kalf, but paid most attention to Einar. The king said to Einar, " Let us ride to-day to Stiklestad. I should like to see the memorials of the things which took place there." Einar replies, " I can tell thee nothing about it ; but take thy foster-father Kalf with thee : he can give thee in- formation about all that took place." When the tables were removed, the king made himself ready, and said to Kalf, " Thou must go with me to Stiklestad." Kalf replied, " That is really not my duty." Then the king stood up in a passion, and said, " Go thou shalt, Kalf!" and thereupon he went out. Kalf put on his riding clothes in all haste, and said to his foot-boy, " Thou must ride directly to Egge, and order my house-servants to ship all my property on board my ship before sunset." King Magnus now rides to Stiklestad, and Kalf with him. They alighted from horseback, and went to the place where the battle had been. Then said the king to Kalf, " Where is the spot at which the king fell?" Kalf stretched out his spear-shaft, and said, " There he lay when he fell." The king: "And where wast thou, Kalf ?" Kalf: " Here where I am now standing." The king turned red as blood in the face, and said, " Then thy axe could well have reached him." Kalf replied, " My axe did not come near him ;" and immediately went to his horse, sprang on horse- back, and rode away with all his men ; and the king rode back to Haug. Kalf did not stop until he got home in the evening to Egge. There his ship lay ready at the shore side, and all his effects were on board, and the vessel manned with his house-servants. They set off immediately by night down the fiord, and afterwards proceeded day and night, when the wind suited. He sailed out into the West sea, and