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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 289 King Inge came a second time, and pacified them ; and saga xv. both agreed that he should mediate between them. When King Inge and Gregorins heard that King Hakon was in Yiken, they went east with many ships ; but when they came King Hakon fled from them, and there was no battle. Then King Inge went to Oplso, and Gregorius was in Konghelle. Soon after Gree^orius heard that Hakon and his Chapter XIII men were at a farm called Saurbo, which lies up be- Munan's side the forest. Gregorius hastened there ; came in ^^^*^* the night ; and supposing that King Hakon and Sigurd would be in the largest of the houses, set fire to the buildings there. But Hakon and his men were in the smaller house, and came forth, seeing the fire, to help their people. There Munan fell, a son of Ale Oskein, a brother of King Sigurd Hakon's father. Gregorius and his men killed him, because he was helping those whom they were burning within the house. Some escaped, but many Avere killed. Asbiorn Jalde, who had been a very great viking, escaped from the house, but was grievously wounded. A bonder met him, and he ofi*ered the man money to let him get away ; but the bonder replied, he would do what he liked best ; and, adding that he had often been in fear of his life for him, he slew him. King Hakon and Sigurd escaped, but many of their people were killed. There- after Gregorius returned home to Konghelle. Soon after King Hakon and Sigurd went to Haldor Bruni- ulfsson's farm of Yettaland, set fire to the house, and burnt it. Haldor went out, and was cut down in- stantly with his house-men; and in all there were about twenty men killed. Sigrid, Haldor's wife, was a sister of Gregorius, and they allowed her to escape into the forest in her night-shift only ; but they took with them Amund, who was a son of GyrderAmunds- son and of Gyred Dag's daughter, and a sister's son of Gregorius, and who was then a boy about five years old, VOL. III. u