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 326 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA XVI. Baard, who then presided over the town's affairs, and inany others. They, in their defence, denied the accusation; but Erling's writer stood up, produced many letters with seals, and asked if they acknowledged their seals which they had sent to the Danish king ; and thereupon the letters were read. There was also a Danish man with Erling who had gone with the letters in winter, and whom Erling for that purpose had taken into his service. He told to these men the very words which each of them had used. " And you, Eaza Baard, spoke, striking your breast ; and the very words you used were, ^ Out of this breast are all these counsels produced.' " Baard replied, " I was wrong in the head, sirs, when I spoke so." There was now nothing to be done but to submit the case entirely to the sentence Erling might give upon it. He took great sums of money from many as fines, and con- demned all those who had been killed as lawless, and their deeds as lawless ; making their deaths thereby not subject to mulct. Then Erling returned to Bergen. The Danish King Waldemar assembled in spring a great army, and proceeded with it north to Yiken. Chapter XXVII. Of King Walde- As soon as he reached the dominions of the king of Tn3,r s GX- pedition to Norway, the bonders assembled in a great multitude. Norway. rpj^^ ^[ng advauccd peacefully ; but when they came to the mainland, the people shot at them even when there were only two or three together, from Avhich the ill- will of the country-people towards them was evident. When they came to Tunsberg, King Waldemar sum- moned a Hauga-thing ; but nobody attended it from the country parts. Then Waldemar spoke thus to his troops : " It is evident that all the country-people are against us ; and now we have two things to choose : the one to go through the country, sword in hand, sparing neither man nor beast ; the other is to go back without effecting our object. And it is more my