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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 109 Olafsmass, there was a great assemblage of people, and tlien a blind man Avas restored to sight. And on the mass-day itself, when the shrine and the holy relics were taken out and carried, and the shrine itself, according to custom, was taken and set down in the church-yard, a man who had long been dumb re- covered his speech again, and sang with flowing tongue praise-hymns to God, and to the honour of King Olaf the Saint. The third miracle was of a woman who had come from Sweden, and had suffered much distress on this pilgrimage from her blindness ; but, trusting in God's mercy, had come travelling to this solemnity. She was led blind into the church to hear mass this day ; but before the service was ended she saw with both eyes, and got her sight fully and clearly, although she had been blind fourteen years. She returned with great joy, praising God and King Olaf the Saint. There happened a circumstance in Nidaros, when King Olaf 's coflin was being carried about through the streets, that it became so heavy that people could not lift it from the spot. Now when the coflin was set down, the street was broken up to see what was under it at that spot, and the body of a child was found which had been murdered and concealed there. The body was carried away, the street put in order again as it had been before, and the shrine carried on according to custom. King Olaf Kyrre was a great friend of his brother- in-law the Danish king, Canute the Holy. They ap- pointed a meeting, and met at the Gotha river at Konghelle*, where the kings used to have their meet- ings. There King Canute made the proposal that they tleman, Dan_, Esq., as a sporting quarter. It was a celebrated place of meeting for the Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish kings, and rose to be a town of consequence; but is now in decay. SAGA X. Chapter VII. Of the shrine of King Olaf the Saint. Chapter VIII. Meeting of Olaf Kyrre and Canute the Saint, and their prepara- tions against England.
 * The estate of Konghelle was lately purchased hy an English gen-