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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 265 SAGA XIV, it gave the priest pain ; then he stroked with his hands his eyes, and legs, and other wounded members. Then the priest asked who he was. He looked at him, and said, " Olaf, come here from Drontheim ;" and then disappeared. But the priest awoke altogether sound, and thus he spoke : " Happy am I, and thanks be to the Almighty God and the holy King Olaf, who have restored me !" Dreadfully mishandled as he had been, yet so quickly was he restored from his mis- fortune that he scarcely thought he had been wounded or sick. His tongue was entire ; both his eyes were in their places, and were clear-sighted ; his broken legs and every other wound were healed, or were free from pain ; and, in short, he had got perfect health. But as a proof that his eyes had been punched out, there remained a white scar on each eyelid, in order that this dear king's excellence might be manifest on the man who had been so dreadfully misused.* King Ey stein and King Sigurd had quarrelled. Chapter because King Sigurd had killed King Eystein's The Kings courtman Harald, the Yiken man, who owned a ^^s^^^^^ house in Bergen, and also the priest John Tabardsson hold a and Biorne Sigurdsson. On account of this affair, th^Hoim. a conference to settle it was appointed in winter in the Uplands. The two sat together in the con- ference for a long time, and so much was known of their conference that all the three brothers were to meet the following summer in Bergen. It was added, that their conference was to the effect that King Inge should have two or three farms, and as much income as would keep thirty men beside him, as he had not health to be a king. When King Inge and Gregorius heard this report, they came to Bergen with many followers. King Sigurd arrived there a an interpolation, not being in any manuscript, although found in Perinsiskiold's edition of Snorro's work.
 * These two chapters^ XXIV. and XXV., are considered by Schoning