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Rh Then they burned the house of Thorkill Geysu, SAGA IX. who was a s^reat lord, and his dauo;hters they carried Chapter . . xxxir. off bound to their ships. They had made a great of Ceysu's mockery the winter before of King Harald's coming daughters. with war-ships against Denmark; and they cut their cheese into the shape of anchors, and said such anchors might hold all the ships of the Norway king. Then this was composed : —

It is said that a spy who had seen the fleet of King Harald said to Thorkill Geysu's daughters, " Ye said, Geysu's daughters, that King Harald dared not come to Denmark." Dotta, Thorkill's daughter, replied, "That was yesterday." Thorkill had to ransom his daughters with a great sum. So says Granc:—

King Harald plundered in Denmark all that sum- mer, and made immense booty; but he had not any footing in the land that summer in Denmark. He went to Norway again in autumn, and remained there all winter.

The winter after King Magnus the Good died, King Chapter Harald took Thord, daughter of Thorberg Arneson, of the and they had two sons; the oldest called Maofnus, "^'V'^fges •^ ^, o 7 and cnil- and the other Olaf. King Harald and Queen Ellisof dren of