the talking thereunto and asked
her whether she would not have him to husband. But with her fortunes at
the pass at which they now lay seemed it a hard thing to her to judge;
yet on the other hand plainly perceived she how good a marriage it would
be to wed with so famous a King, and therefore entreated she him that he
should make decision on the matter for her. Thereafter, when this thing
had been duly discussed, took King Olaf Queen Tyri in wedlock; and they
were abed in the autumn when King Olaf was come north from Halogaland.

That winter abode King Olaf and Queen Tyri in Nidaros.

Now in the spring-time thereafter oft-times did Tyri make plaint to King
Olaf, and cried bitterly thereover, because albeit had she such great
possessions in Wendland yet had she none in this country, and that she
should have such deemed she but seemly for a Queen; & thinking that by
fair words would she get her own prayed she him on this matter, and said
that so great was the friendship between King Burizlaf & Olaf that even
so soon as they should meet would the King give Olaf all he asked for.
But when the friends to King Olaf came to know after what fashion was
the manner of talking of Tyri with one consent gave they all counsel to
him to refrain from such a course. One day early in the spring, so it is
said, as the King was walking in the street came a man towards him from
the market-place bearing many sticks of angelica, which same were
wondrous big, seeing that it was early in the spring-tide. And the King
took a large stick of angelica in his hand & went home therewith to the
lodging of Queen Tyri. Now Tyri sat a-weeping in her hall even as the
King came in, but he said to her: 'Here is a great stalk of angelica for
thee.' Aside thrust Tyri it with her hand, and said: 'Greater gifts gave
Harald Gormson to me, but lesser feared he than thou dost to leave his
land and seek his own, and the token thereof is that fared he hither to
Norway and laid waste the greater part of this land and took to himself
all taxes and dues; but durst thou not fare through the Danish realm for
fear of my brother King Svein.' Then up sprang King Olaf at these words,
& called out loudly, and swore withal: 'Never will I go in fear of thy
brother King Svein, and whensoever we meet shall he be the one to give
way.'

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|| Not long after these things summoned King Olaf a Thing in the town,
and made known to all the people that in the summer