afterwards his brother,
King Sverre, had the body transported north to the merchant town
Nidaros, and laid in the stone wall of Christ church south of the choir.

8. FLIGHT OF THE CHIEFS OF HAKON'S MEN.

Earl Sigurd, Eindride Unge, Onund Simonson, Frirek Keina, and other
chiefs kept the troop together, left the ships in Raumsdal, and went
up to the Uplands. King Magnus and his father Erling sailed with their
troops north to Nidaros in Throndhjem, and subdued the country as they
went along. Erling called together an Eyra-thing, at which King Magnus
was proclaimed king of all Norway. Erling, however, remained there but a
short time; for he thought the Throndhjem people were not well affected
towards him and his son. King Magnus was then called king of the whole
country.

King Hakon had been a handsome man in appearance, well grown, tall and
thin; but rather broad-shouldered, on which account his men called him
Herdebreid. As he was young in years, his lendermen ruled for him. He
was cheerful and friendly in conversation, playful and youthful in his
ways, and was much liked by the people.

9. OF KING SIGURD'S BEGINNING.

There was an Upland man called Markus of Skog, who was a relation of
Earl Sigurd. Markus brought up a son of King Sigurd Mun, who was also
called Sigurd. This Sigurd was chosen king (A.D. 1162) by the Upland
people, by the advice of Earl Sigurd and the other chiefs who had
followed King Hakon. They had now a great army, and the troops were
divided in two bodies; so that Markus and the king were less exposed
where there was anything to do, and Earl Sigurd and his troop, along
with the lendermen, were most in the way of danger. They went with their
troops mostly through the Uplands, and sometimes eastwards to Viken.
Erling Skakke had his son King Magnus always with him, and he had also
the whole fleet and the land defence under him. He was a while in Bergen
in autumn; but went from thence eastward to Viken, where he settled in
Tunsberg for his winter quarters (A.D. 1163), and collected in Viken all
the taxes and revenues that belonged to Magnus as king; and he had
many and very fine troops. As Earl Sigurd had but a small part of the
country, and kept many men on foot, he soon was in want of money; and
where there was no chief in the neighbourhood he had to seek money by
unlawful ways,--sometimes by unfounded accusations and fines, sometimes
by open robbery.

10. EARL SIGURD'S CONDEM