but little help in thee on account of thy ill health,
but I should think thy will should not be less to hold thy hand over thy
friends, and I am now quite ready to go from hence to meet Sigurd, and
my banner is flying in the yard."

Then King Inge stood up, and called for his arms, and ordered every man
who wished to follow him to get ready, declaring it was of no use to try
to dissuade him; for he had long enough avoided this, but now steel must
determine between them.

28. OF KING SIGURD'S FALL.

King Sigurd sat and drank in Sigrid Saeta's house ready for battle,
although people thought it would not come to an assault at all. Then
came King Inge with his men down the road from the smithy shops,
against the house. Arne, the king's brother-in-law, came out from the
Sand-bridge, Aslak Erlendson from his own house, and Gregorius from the
street where all thought the assault would be worst. King Sigurd and
his men made many shots from the holes in the loft, broke down the
fireplaces, and threw stones on them. Gregorius and his men cut down the
gates of the yard; and there in the port fell Einar, a son of Laxapaul,
who was of Sigurd's people, together with Halvard Gunnarson, who was
shot in a loft, and nobody lamented his death. They hewed down the
houses, and many of King Sigurd's men left him, and surrendered for
quarter. Then King Sigurd went up into a loft, and desired to be heard.
He had a gilt shield, by which they knew him, but they would not listen
to him, and shot arrows at him as thick as snow in a snow-shower, so
that he could not stay there. As his men had now left him, and the
houses were being hewn down, he went out from thence, and with him his
court-man Thord Husfreyja from Viken. They wanted to come where King
Inge was to be found, and Sigurd called to his brother King Inge, and
begged him to grant him life and safety; but both Thord and Sigurd
were instantly killed, and Thord fell with great glory. King Sigurd
was interred in the old Christ church out on the holm. King Inge gave
Gregorius the ship King Sigurd had owned. There fell many of King
Sigurd's and King Inge's men, although I only name a few; but of
Gregorius's men there fell four; and also some who belonged to no party,
but were shot on the piers, or out in the ships. It was fought on a
Friday, and fourteen days before Saint John the Baptist's day (June 10,
1155). Two or three days after King Eystein came from the eastward with
thirty shi