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 316 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA XVI. '' Let US take tlieir ships, but not go up to fight with a land force. The Hisingers are a bad set to quarrel writh, — hard, and without understanding. They will keep this troop but a little while among them, for Hising is but a small spot." This was done: they took the ships, and brought them over to Konghelle. Marcus and his men went up to the forest districts, from which they intended to make assaults, and they had spies out on both sides. ErHng had many men-at-arms with him, whom he brought from other districts, and they made attacks on each other in turn. Chapter Eystclu, a SOU of Erlcud Himald, was selected to be Beginnin^r archbishop, after Archbishop Johan's death ; and he bisho^i^" w^s consecrated the same year King Inge was killed. Eystein. Now whcu Archbishop Eystein came to his see, he made himself beloved by all the country, as an excel- lent active man of high birth. The Drontheim people, in particular, received him with pleasure ; for most of the great people in the Drontheim district were con- nected with the archbishop by relationship or other connection, and all were his friends. The archbishop brought forward a request to the bonders in a speech, in which he set forth the great want of money for the see, and also how much greater improvement of the revenues would be necessary to maintain it suitably, as it was now of much more importance than formerly when the bishop's see was first established. He requested of the bonders that they should give him, for determining law-suits, an ore of silver value, instead of what they had before paid, which was an ore of judgment money, of that kind which was paid to the king in judging cases ; and the difference between the two kinds of ore was, that the ore he desired was a half greater than the other. By help of the archbishop's relations and friends, and his own activity, this was carried ; and it was fixed by law