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Norse Sagas · Frederick York, 1905
1. 1. IN the days when pope Anacletus [II] ruled God’s Christendom, and Magnus Sigurd’s son and Harold Gille[-christ] were kings of Norway, there was born in a part of Iceland that is called Fleetlithe, Thor-lac the holy, at the farm that is called Lithe-end, in the year when bishop Thor-lac Runolfs son died [1133]. 2. Their names were the same, not because he was called after bishop Thor-lac, but rather because He, that knoweth and governeth all things, wished to do honour withal to the former bishop Thor-lac, that his name might be ever loved and worshipped by all them that have since been permitted to hear and know the worth of the blessed bishop Thor-lac. And Almighty God has vouchsafed to the blessed bishop’s name that honour, which Solomon the Sage said aforetime that ‘a good name is better than much riches’ [Prov xxii. 1], and that was truly a good name then, since it was …
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