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 KINGS OF NOllWAY. 317 in all the Drontheim district, and in all the districts saga xvi. belonging to his archbishopric* When Sigurd and Marcus lost their ships in the ^xv^j" Gotha river, and saw they could get no hold on Erling, of Marcus they went to the Uplands, and proceeded by land ^g^J^'"^ north to Drontheim. Sigurd was received there joy- fully, and chosen king at an Ore-thing; and many gallant men, with their sons, attached themselves to his party. They fitted out ships, rigged them for a voyage, and proceeded when summer came southwards to More, and took up all the royal revenues where- soever they came. At this time the following lender- men were appointed in Bergen for the defence of the country : — Nicolas Sigurdsson, Nokve Paalsson, and several military leaders ; as Thoralf Dry 11, Thorbiorn Skatemester, and many others. As Marcus and Sigurd sailed south, they heard that Erling's men were numerous in Bergen ; and therefore they sailed outside the coast-rocks, and southwards past Bergen. It was generally remarked, that Marcus's men always got a fair wind, wherever they wished to sail to. As soon as Erlins; Skakke heard that Siorurd and Chapter o o XVIII Marcus had sailed southwards, he hastened to Yiken, Marcus and drew together an armed force ; and he soon had 5^^^^*"° a great many men, and many stout ships. But when killed, he came farther in Viken, he met with a strong con- trary wind, which kept him there in port the whole summer. Now when Sigurd and Marcus came east to Lister, they heard that Erling had a great force in Yiken ; so they turned to the north again. But when mining cases in the Things, appear to have been a main source of the revenues of the kings. On the establishment of bishops there appear to have been bishops' courts for judging of cases coming within clerical jurisdiction, of which the fees and penalties belonged to the bishopric revenue. It does not appear that the king's courts ceased in those dis- tricts, as in Drontheim, which had bishops; but only that the fees and penalties in certain cases belonged to the bishop, not to the king.
 * The penalties on offences against the law, and the fees for deter-