Then said King Magnus:
'It was a kin-deed, not a child's-deed; I can in good sooth remember
what I gave and what I refused, but an it were allowed that this little
matter were now done in our despite another would soon arise. In all
things will we keep the covenant that we made, but thou on thy part must
fulfil that which was agreed upon.' Then said King Harald: 'There is
also an old custom which hath it that the wisest giveth way,' &
therewith went he back even to his own ship. In such like dealings
betwixt the Kings was it difficult to hold the balance; the men to King
Magnus swore even that he was in the right, but those who were dullards
deemed that Harald had been slighted.

The men that were of King Harald's following said it were well and right
that Magnus should have the berth had the two Kings come thither at the
same time, but that King Harald could not be called upon to leave the
berth wherein he were lying afore; and they declared that Harald had
acted well and wisely, but those who wished to make the worst of things
said that King Magnus desired to break the covenant, and that he had
done King Harald wrong and injustice.

Soon unwise men were talking so much about quarrels of this kind that
discord arose between the Kings, and many things befell which the Kings
took each after his own fashion albeit thereof is but little set down in
writing.

|| So King Magnus & King Harald brought their fleet down to Denmark, and
when Svein heard thereof fled he away to Skani. The two Kings abode long
in Denmark that summer, and brought the land into subjection; the autumn
to them was in Jutland. There one night, when King Magnus lay abed,
dreamt he that he himself stood there where his father King Olaf the
Saint abode, & thought he that his father spake with him: 'Which wilt
thou choose, my son, to fare with me, or become of all kings the
mightiest & live long, but to commit sin so great that thou wilt
scarcely or never be able to atone for it?' And he bethought that he
answered, 'I desire that thou choosest for me.'

Then the King seemed to answer: 'Thou shalt fare even with me.' King
Magnus told his men of this dream. A little while later fell he ill of a
sickness, and lay at a place called Sudatorp,Sec. and when he was nigh unto
death sent he his brotherSec. Thorir to Svein Ulfson bidding the latter
afford Thorir what help he might need, and with this message King Magnus
also made it known that when his days shou