awoke altogether sound, and thus he
spoke: "Happy am I, and thanks be to the Almighty God and the holy King
Olaf, who have restored me!" Dreadfully mishandled as he had been, yet
so quickly was he restored from his misfortune that he scarcely thought
he had been wounded or sick. His tongue was entire; both his eyes were
in their places, and were clear-sighted; his broken legs and every other
wound were healed, or were free from pain; and, in short, he had got
perfect health. But as a proof that his eyes had been punched out, there
remained a white scar on each eyelid, in order that this dear king's
excellence might be manifest on the man who had been so dreadfully
misused.

26. KING INGE AND SIGURD HOLD A THING.

King Eystein and King Sigurd had quarrelled, because King Sigurd had
killed King Eystein's court-man Harald, the Viken man, who owned a house
in Bergen, and also the priest Jon Tapard, a son of Bjarne Sigurdson.
On account of this affair, a conference to settle it was appointed in
winter in the Uplands. The two sat together in the conference for a long
time, and so much was known of their conference that all three brothers
were to meet the following summer in Bergen. It was added, that their
conference was to the effect that King Inge should have two or three
farms, and as much income as would keep thirty men beside him, as he had
not health to be a king. When King Inge and Gregorius heard this report,
they came to Bergen with many followers. King Sigurd arrived there a
little later, and was not nearly so strong in men. Sigurd and Inge had
then been nineteen years kings of Norway (A.D. 1155). King Eystein came
later still from the south than the other two from the north. Then King
Inge ordered the Thing to be called together on the holm by the sound
of trumpet; and Sigurd and Inge came to it with a great many people.
Gregorius had two long-ships, and at the least ninety men, whom he kept
in provisions. He kept his house-men better than other lendermen; for he
never took part in any entertainment where each guest brings his liquor,
without having all his house-men to drink with him. He went now to the
Thing in a gold-mounted helmet, and all his men had helmets on. Then
King Inge stood up, and told the assembly what he had heard; how his
brothers were going to use him, and depose him from his kingdom; and
asked for their assistance. The assembled people made a good return to
his speech, and declared they