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When they were met thus in council, the King took the word, and bade Emund be called thither. But the messenger came back and said: 'Sire, Emund the lawman rode away yesterday immediately after he had supped. Then spake the King: 'Tell me this, noble lords, whereto pointed that law question of which Emund asked yesterday?
Said the King: 'Little tidings these, if there be no more to say. Emund answered: 'Yet further a while ago happened this, which one may call tidings. Gauti Tofason went out with five warships by the river Gaut Elbe; but when he lay by the Eikr Isles, some Danes came there with five large merchant ships.
Then said Emund: 'You Up-Swedes have power to rule this for the time; but I warn you that hereafter some of those who will not hear now of anything else but that the kingdom of Sweden go in the royal line, will themselves live to consent that the kingdom pass into other families, and that will turn out better.
So the landowners asked Emund to go on this mission, to which he assented, and went his way with thirty men, and came to East Gautland. There he had many kinsmen and friends, and was well received. He had there some talk with the wisest men about this difficulty, and they were quite agreed in thinking that what the King was doing with them was against use and law.
The King answered: 'Great tidings these, and worth telling; but what is thy errand hither? Emund answered: 'I come, sire, to seek a solution in a difficulty where our law and Upsala law differ. The King asked: 'What is it of which thou wouldst complain? Emund answered: 'There were two men, nobly born, equal in family, but unequal in possessions and disposition.
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