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He was a very wise and powerful ruler, and his subjects were prosperous and peaceable, having many useful arts, and carrying on a commerce with the great city of Mikligard. The people were still heathen, worshipping Odin and Thor and the minor gods of the Scandinavians; for the faith of Christendom was as yet but vaguely known to them and little understood.
But he remembered that on a time some merchants had come to the coast from a great city in the south called Mikligard which was the Norseman's name for Constantinople, and he guessed that that might be their journey's end. Then Olaf crept nearer to their sleeping companion and wakened him. "Tell me," he asked, "who is this man, our master, and whither is he taking us?"
Manage all that I leave behind as if I should never return to Norway." The men answered that matters would be more easily managed if his wife remained to look after them. She answered: "I left my own country and came from Mikligard with Thorsteinn, I bade farewell to my kinsmen and my possessions, because I wished that one fate should befall us both.
They were both in Norway that winter, but Thorbjorn was in the North and Thorsteinn in Tunsberg, so that they did not see each other. Angle knew, however, that Grettir had a brother in Norway, and did not feel very secure in a strange country; so he asked advice as to what he had better do. In those days many of the Norsemen used to go to Mikligard to take service.
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