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The first event in the brilliant reign of this boy king was the invasion and plundering of Aberdeen by Eystein king of Norway about 1153, in repelling which the feudal Barons of Moray and Angus, including the first Freskyn of Duffus and his son William MacFrisgyn, must have been of service.
When Ragnvald reached Norway in 1153, he heard what had been going on at home during his absence in the east. King Eystein of Norway, King Harald Gilli's son, had seized Jarl Harold Maddadson, then a young man of twenty, at Thurso, and made him swear allegiance to himself, letting him go on his paying three marks of gold as his ransom.
Eystein conferred many more benefits on his country, and on individuals many acts of kindness such as his undertaking by his conversation to cheer and console one of his friends who had been disappointed in love. This excellent King died at thirty-five, and it was said that there was never so much mourning in Norway. Sigurd's fate was sad; the shadow predicted in his dream fell on him.
With him the cardinal took part, and compelled Sigurd, together with Eystein, who seems also to have meddled in the dispute against Inge, to agree to a reconciliation. At the same time, he visited with ecclesiastical censures the former two, for various crimes, of which they had been guilty in other respects.
And there was no excuse for me. My betrothed was not waiting for me upon the opposite bank as in the case of poor Eystein!" "And what a terrible thing it would have been to Madame Hogg!" exclaimed Hulda. "She would never have got over it." "Madame Hogg!" repeated the professor. "Oh! Madame Hogg wouldn't have shed a tear " "Oh, Mister Sylvius."
All this thou knowest, Hilda, as well as I; but thou dost not know that men have been at the stede to-day, who tell us that the King is advancing north, and is victorious everywhere. Already King Gandalf and Hako are slain; the two sons of King Eystein have also fallen, and many of the upland kings have been burned, with most of their men, in a house at Ringsager.
In the meantime, Eystein was leading a wise, beneficent, peaceable, and pious life in Norway. But their different dispositions are best shown in a discussion that the old Norwegian chronicle has recorded as taking place soon after Sigurd's return.
Erlend, only son of Harald Slettmali, and really entitled to the whole earldom, obtained from his relative King Malcolm, then a boy of under twelve, through his powerful kin, a grant of half of the earldom of Caithness jointly with Harold Maddadson, who objected to give him half the Orkney jarldom unless King Eystein confirmed the grant. Erlend then went to Norway to get it confirmed.
The country was then governed by three brothers, named Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, sons of the late King Harrold Gille. Between the first two, a serious quarrel happened to rage. For a Norwegian nobleman having murdered the brother of Sigurd's favourite concubine, and then entered the service of Inge, the latter shielded his client against the punishment which Sigurd sought to inflict.
"I think," said Sigurd, "you could hardly draw my bow, even if you took your foot to help." "I am not so strong at the bow, but there is less difference in our shooting near." "Beside," continued the tall Sigurd, "a chief ought to be taller than other men, easily seen and distinguished." "Nay," said Eystein, who was the handsomest man in Norway, "good looks may be an equal distinction.
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