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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 149 SAGA XIL Chapter II. Of the £arls of Orkney. Chapter, III. King Sigurd's journey out of the country. and Ey stein, in the mean time, should rule the king- dom upon their joint account. A year or two after King Magnus's fall, Hakon, a son of Earl Paul, came from Orkney. The kings gave him the earldom and government of the Orkney Islands, as the earls before him, his father Paul or his uncle Erlend, had possessed it ; and Earl Hakon then sailed back immediately to Orkney. Four years after the fall of King Magnus, King Sigurd sailed with his people from Norway. He had then sixty ships. So says Thorarin Stuttfeld ; — '^ A young king just and kind, People of loyal mind : Such brave men soon agree, — To distant lands they sail with glee. To the distant Holy Land A brave and pious band, Magnificent and gay. In sixty long- ships glide away." King Sigurd sailed in autumn to England, where Henry, son of William the Bastard, was then king, and Sigurd remained with him all winter. So says Einar Skuleson : — ^' The king is on the waves! The storm he boldly braves. His ocean -steed. With winged speed. O'er the white-flashing surges. To England's coast he urges ; And there he stays the winter o'er : More gallant king ne'er trod that shore." In spring King Sigurd and his fleet sailed west- Chapter ward to Valland*, and in autumn came to Galiciaf, of King where he staid the second winter. So says Einar s^gurd's •/ journey. okuleson : — '' Our king, whose land so wide No kingdom stands beside. I Galizo land, — the province of Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. L 3
 * Valland, — the west of France.