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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 155 It is written in the chronicles, that Earl Roger let saga xh. himself first be called king of Sicily in the year of chapter our Lord 1102, having before contented himself with of k^^^ the title of earl only of Sicily, although he was duke Roger, of Calabria and Apulia, and was called Roger the Great ; and when he afterwards made the king of Tunet or Tunis tributary to him, he had these Avords engraved on his sword, — ^' Apulus et Calaber, Siculus mihi servit et Afer." King Roger of Sicily was a very great king. He won and subdued all Apulia, and many large islands besides in the Greek sea; and therefore he was called Roger the Great. His son was William king of Sicily, who for a long time had great hostility with the emperor of Constantinople. King William had three daughters, but no son. One of his daughters he married to the Emperor Henry, a son of the Emperor Frederic ; and their son was Frederic, who for a short time after was emperor of Rome. His second daughter was married to the Duke of Kypur.* The third daughter, Margaret, was married to the chief of the corsairs ; but the Em- peror Henry killed both these brothers-in-law. The daughter of Roger the Great, king of Sicily, was married to the Emperor Manuel of Constantinople; and their son was the Emperor Kirialax.f In summer King Sigurd sailed across the Greek sea Chapter to Palestine J, and came to Acre §, where he landed, ^j^^^ g^, and went by land to Jerusalem. || Now when Baldmn, s^^^^'f ex- king of Palestine, heard that King Sigurd would visit Palestine. dignity, must be conferred by a superior in title or dignity; and thus a wandering king from the North could raise the Earl Roger of Sicily to the kingly title. t Kirialax. Kuriou Alexou — the Emperor Alexis Comnenis.
 * Kypur — Cyprus.
 * Jorsalaland — Palestine: the land of Jerusalem.

§ Akersborg — Acre. II Jorsalaborg — Jerusalem.