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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 7 o found that so thick ice had gathered about the vessels saga ix. that one could walk around them. The king ordered Haii, the his men to cut the ice from the ships all the way out Kodran!^^ to the clear water ; on which they all went to break the ice. King Harald's son Magnus steered the vessel that lay lowest do^vn the river and nearest the water. When the people had cleared the ice away almost en- tirely, a man ran out to the ice, and began hewing away at it like a madman. Then said one of the men, " It is going now as usual, that none can do so much as Hall who killed Kodran, when once he lays himself to the work. See how he is hewing away at the ice." There was a man in the crew of Magnus the king's son who was called Thormod Eindredsson ; and when he heard the name of Kodran' s murderer he ran up to Hall, and gave him a death-wound. Kodran was a son of Gudmund Eyolfsson ; and Yolgerd, who was a sister of Gudmund, was the mother of Jorna, and the grandmother by the mother's side of this Thormod. Thormod was a year old when Kodran was killed, and had never seen Hall Otrygsson until now. When the ice was broken all the way out to the water, Mag- nus drew his ship out, set sail directly, and sailed westward across the lake ; but the king's ship, which lay farthest up the river, came out the last. Hall had been in the king's retinue, and was very dear to him ; so that the king was enraged at his death. The king came the last into the harbour, and Magnus had let the murderer escape into the forest, and offered to pay the mulct for him ; and the king had very nearly attacked Magnus and his crew, but their friends came up and reconciled them. That winter King Harald went up to Raumarike, and chapter had many people with him ; and he accused the bonders ^^^ ^i- there of having kept from him his scatt and duties, HaraM.^ and of having; aided his enemies to raise disturbance •to against him. He seized on the bonders, and maimed