and
(Palestine) and thence to Jorsalaborg (Jerusalem), and whithersoever he
went in Jorsalaland were all the towns and castles surrendered unto him;
thus saith Stuf, who had himself heard the King recount these things:

'The blade-bold smiting warrior
To subjection brought Jerusalem.
The smiling land was captive to him and the Greeks,
And by their might, unburned withal,
Came the country under the warrior's dictate.'

|| Here it is recounted that this land came unburned and unscathed into
Harald's power. Thereafter fared he to the Jordan and bathed himself
therein, as is the way with other pilgrims. On the Sepulchre of the
Lord, the Holy Cross, and other holy relics in Jorsalaland bestowed
Harald great benefactions. Then did he make safe all the road to the
Jordan, slaying robbers and other disturbers of the peace. Thus saith
Stuf:

'By counsel and wrathful words the King of the Agdir folk
Withstood on the banks of the Jordan the treason of men,
But for true trespass had folk to pay dearly;
Ill from the Prince suffered they.
(In Christ's eternal house).'

|| After these things fared he back to Miklagard.

|| Now when Harald was returned to Miklagard from Jorsalaland was he
minded to go to the north, even unto his own heritage; for it had come
to his ears that the son of his brother, to wit, Magnus Olafson, was now
King of Norway and of Denmark, and therefor gave he warning to quit his
service with the King of Greece; but when Queen Zoe came to hear thereof
waxed she very wrath & made dire complaint against Harald, averring that
he had gone dishonestly to work with the wealth of the Greek King which
had been taken in warfare what time Harald had been chief of the host.
Now there was a damsel both young and fair, whose name was Maria, and
she was the daughter of the brother to Queen Zoe.[Sec.] Afore had Harald
sought the hand of this maid in marriage, and by the Queen had his suit
been refused. It has been told here in the north by Vaerings, who were
then serving in Miklagard, that among those who should wot well of the
affair was it averred that Queen Zoe desired to have Harald for her own
husband, & therein lay the cause of all that which befell when Harald
desired to leave Miklagard, though mayhap otherwise was given out before
all folk. At that time was Constantine Monomachus King of the Greeks,
and together with Queen Zoe ruled he the kingdom. Wherefore was it on
these counts that th