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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 293 to sleep, when the war-shouts awoke him. When the saga xv. night was well advanced, King Inge's spies came to him, and told him that King Hakon and his army were coming over the ice ; for the ice lay the whole way from the town to Hoved Isle. Thereupon King Inge went with his army out on ^^^^7^"" the ice, and he drew it up in order of battle in front King Inge's of the town. Simun Skalp was in that wing of the ^p^^^^* array which was towards Traelaberg; and on the other wing, which was towards the Nunnery, was Gudrod, the king of the South Hebudes, a son of Olaf Bitling*, and John, a son of Swen Bergthor a son of Buk. When King Hakon and his army came near to King Inge's array, both sides raised a war- shout. Gudrod and John gave King Hakon and his men a sign, and let them know where they were in the line ; and as soon as Hakon's men in conse- quence turned thither, Gudrod immediately fled with 1500 men ; and John, and a great body of men with him, ran over to King Hakon's army, and as- sisted them in the fight. When this news was told to King Inge, he said, " Such is the diiFerence be- tween my friends. Never would Gregorius have done Godredus, son of Olaf king of the South Hebudes, went in 1142, in the lifetime of his father, to Inge (called Hinge in the Manx Chronicle) king of Norway to do homage for Mann. His father was slain in his absence, and he returned from Norway in 1143, and was proclaimed king of Mann. As he treated the chiefs of the island harshly, they joined Sumarlid, with whom, after a sea-fight in 1156, he was obliged to share his kingdom ; and in 1158 he was obliged to fly from Mann, and seek assistance from Norway. Sumarlid fell in a war with the Scottish king, and in 1 164 Rognvald (Reginaldus), a brother of Gudrod, seized the sovereignty; but Gudrod returned with forces from Norway, took his brother prisoner, mutilated him, and held the sovereignty until 1187, when he died. Gudrod appears, from this account taken from the Manx Chronicle, to have been in Norway from 1158 to 11 64; and this battle of Opslo took place about the year ll6l, according to Tor- fajus. See note of Thorlacius at Chap. XVII. of this Saga in the folio edition of .Snorro. u 3
 * The Chronicle of the Kings of Mann coincides with the saga.