KINGS OF NORWAY. 233 XIV. SAGA OF SIGURD, INGE, AND EYSTEIN, sagaxiv, THE SONS OF HAEALD.* Queen Ingerid, and with her the lendermen and the Chapter court which had been with King Harald, resolved Beginning to send a fast-sailins^-vessel to Drontheim to make ofthehis- T' T T 1 T • 1 torv or the known King Harald's death, and also to desire the kings si- Drontheim people to take King Harald's son Sigurd f^U.^ for king. He was then in the north, and was fos- tered by Gyrder Bardson. Queen Ingerid herself pro- ceeded eastward immediately to Yiken. Inge was the name of her son by King Harald, and he was then fostered by Amund Gyrdersson, a grandson of Log- berse. When they came to Yiken a B orgar- thing f was immediately called together, at Avhich Inge, who was in the second year of his age, was chosen king. This resolution was supported by Amund and Thio- stolf Aleson, together with many other great chiefs. Now when the tidings came north to Drontheim that King Harald was murdered, the Drontheim people took Sigurd, King Harald's son, who was then in his fourth year, to be the king ; and at the Ore-thing this resolution was supported by Ottar Birting, Peter Sauda-Ulfsson, the brothers Guttorm of Reine and Ottar Balle Asolfssons, and many other great chiefs, and many other people. Afterwards the whole nation almost submitted to the brothers, and principally be- cause their father was considered holy; and the
- The period is from about 1136 to ll6'].
t The Borgar-thing — a Thing at the Borg of Sarp or Sarpsborg; one of the regular great Things of the country.
