s carried through such great things." And thus they
parted, without anything being concluded in the case. Thereafter King
Sigurd called together a Gula Thing, went himself there, and summoned to
him many high chiefs. King Eystein came there also with his suite; and
many meetings and conferences were held among people of understanding
concerning this case, and it was tried and examined before the lagmen.
Now King Eystein objected that all the parties summoned in any cases
tried here belonged to the Thing-district; but in this case the deed and
the parties belonged to Halogaland. The Thing accordingly ended in doing
nothing, as King Eystein had thus made it incompetent. The kings parted
in great wrath; and King Eystein went north to Throndhjem. King
Sigurd, on the other hand, summoned to him all lendermen, and also
the house-servants of the lendermen, and named out of every district a
number of the bondes from the south parts of the country, so that he
had collected a large army about him; and proceeded with all this crowd
northwards along the coast to Halogaland, and intended to use all his
power to make Sigurd Hranason an outlaw among his own relations. For
this purpose he summoned to him the Halogaland and Naumudal people, and
appointed a Thing at Hrafnista. King Eystein prepared himself also, and
proceeded with many people from the town of Nidaros to the Thing, where
he made Sigurd Hranason, by hand-shake before witnesses, deliver over to
him the following and defending this case. At this Thing both the kings
spoke, each for his own side. Then King Eystein asks the lagmen where
that law was made in Norway which gave the bondes the right to judge
between the kings of the country, when they had pleas with each other.
"I shall bring witnesses to prove that Sigurd has given the case into my
hands; and it is with me, not with Sigurd Hranason, that King Sigurd has
to do in this case." The lagmen said that disputes between kings must be
judged only at the Eyra Thing in Nidaros.

King Eystein said, "So I thought that it should be there, and the cases
must be removed there."

Then King Sigurd said, "The more difficulties and inconvenience thou
bringest upon me in this matter, the more I will persevere in it." And
with that they parted.

Both kings then went south to Nidaros town, where they summoned a Thing
from eight districts. King Eystein was in the town with a great many
people, but Sigurd was on board his ships. When th