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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 131 Whirling up from the flashing blaze saga xi. The king's men o'er the island raise. South of Cantire the people fled,
 * Scared by our swords in blood dyed red.

And our brave champion onward goes To meet in Man the Norsemen's foes." Lagmadr (Lawman) was the name of the son of Gudrod king of the Hebudes. Lawman was sent to defend the most northerly islands ; but when King Magnus and his army came to the Hebudes, Lawanan fled here and there about the isles, and at last King Magnus's men took him and his ship's crew as he was flying over to Ireland. The king put him in irons to secure him. So says Biorn Cripplehand : — " To Gudrod's son no rock or cave, Shore-side or hill, a refuge gave; Hunted around from isle to isle. This Lawman found no safe asyle. From isle to isle, o'er firth and sound, Close on his track his foe he found. At Ness* the Agder chief at length Seized him, and iron-chained his strength." Afterwards King Magnus sailed to Walesf; and CuAPTEa when he came to the sound of Anglesey there came of the * ae-ainst him an army from Wales, which was led by C^J' ^^ ^^^""^ ~ J ' J Huo"o the two earls J, — Hugo the Brave, and Hugo the Stout. Brave. They began immediately to give battle, and there was a severe conflict. King Magnus shot with the bow ; but Hugo the Brave was all over in armour, so that nothing was bare about him excepting one eye. King Skye. "j" The country occupied by the ancient Britons, or Wales, is called Bretlandin the Icelandic sagas, and the inhabitants Brettar; and Saxland was the part of England occupied by the Anglo-Saxons.
 * This Ness is supposed to be in Scalpa, on the south-west side of
 * Gibson, in his edition of Cambden, vol. ii. p. 808., shows that

there were two Hugos — an earl of Cheshire, and an earl of Shropshire — of Norman descent, who had ravaged,Anglesey, and built a castle ( Aber Lhienawg) to keep down the people; and on the arrival of King Magnus one of them, the Hugo earl of Chester, was killed by an arrow. K 2