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 KINGS OF NORWAY. 83 and her two daughters, Maria and Ingigerd. Olaf, saga ix. King HarakVs son, also accompanied his father abroad. AVhen King Harald was clear for sea, and the wind Chapter became favourable, he sailed out into the ocean ; and Battil^t^^ he himself landed in Shetland, but a part of his fleet Scarbo. in the Orkney Islands. King Harald stopped but a '^ ' short time in Shetland before sailing to Orkney, from whence he took with him a great armed force, and the earls Paul and Erling, the sons of Earl Thor- iinn ; but he left behind him here the Queen Ellisof, and her daughters Maria and Ingigerd. Then he sailed, leaving Scotland and England westward of him, and landed at a place called Kliilond.* There he went on shore and plundered, and brought the country in subjection to him without opposition. Then he brought up at Skardaborg f, and fought with the people of the place. He went up a hill which is there, and made a great pile upon it, which he set on fire; and when the pile was in clear flame, his men took large forks and pitched the burning wood down into the town, so that one house caught fire after the other, and the town surrendered. The Northmen killed many people there, and took all the booty they could lay hold of. There was nothing left for the Englishmen now, if they would preserve their lives, but to submit to King Harald ; and thus he subdued the country wherever he came. Then the king pro- ceeded south along the land, and brought up at Hellor- ness J, where there came a force that had been assem- bled to oppose him, with which he had a battle, an(l gained the victory. Thereafter the kin 2^ sailed to the Humber, and up Chapter along the river, and then he landed. Up in Jorvik§ ofHaraids were two earls, Earl Mauro-kaare 11, and his bro- f^^^,"^ "^ ' 'I ' battle. 11 Morcar, or Morcad, in our histories. G 2
 * Cleveland. • Scarborough.
 * l Holderness. § York.