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 238 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA XIV. Thiostolf went up to Raumarige, and collected men during the night, with whom he returned towards the town in the morning. In the mean time King Eric set fire to Halvard's church, and to the town, which was entirely burnt. Thiostolf came soon after to the town with the men he had assembled, and Eric sailed off with his fleet ; but could not land any where on that side of the fiord, on account of the troops of the lendermen who came down against them ; and wherever they attempted a landing, they left five or six men or more upon the strand. King Inge, and his foster-father Amund Gyrdersson, came with a great number of people into Hornborosund, where they fought with King Eric, and killed many of his men ; but he fled, and turned about southwards to Den- mark again. King Inge pursued him, and took from him all the ships he could get hold of; and it was a common observation among people, that never was so poor an expedition made with so great an* armament in another king's dominions. King Eric was ill pleased at it, and thought King Magnus and his men had been making a fool of him by encouraging him to undertake this expedition, and he declared he would never again be such friends with them as before. Now we shall continue the account of Harald's sons and Sigurd Slembe, according to what has been told us by a Avise and well-informed man, Eric Odds- son ; and this relation was written down from len- derman Hakon Mage, who was present himself, and related these events when they were first taken down. Both he and his sons were in all these expeditions and all these battles, and knew perfectly all about the other expeditions. Chapter Sigurd Slcmbidiaku came that summer from the West Of siRurd sea to Norway, where he heard of his relation King diakn."' Magnus's unlucky expedition; so he expected no wel- come in Nor^vray, but sailed south, outside the rocks.