LEACH. — NORWEGIAN AND ENGLISH CHURCHES, 1066-1399. 537 



Eystein " by letter of the king " amounted to £94 10s. and covered 

 189 days, from the 9th of August, 1181, to the 14th of February, 1182. 

 By computation it will readily be seen that the daily allotment 

 amounted exactly to the ten shillings mentioned by Jocelin. 26 



In view of existing evidence we may safely construct Eystein's itin- 

 erary somewhat as follows. 



In Sverris Saga we hear of Eystein in the spring of 1180 as sailing 

 north with Magnus to Trondhjem. 27 The saga does not mention him 

 again until 1183, when it relates that "Archbishop Eystein had ar- 

 rived from England early in the summer, having been there for three 

 years, absent from his see. He now made peace with King Sverri and 

 sailed north in the summer." 28 In 1180, then, Eystein went to Eng- 

 land. The English chroniclers, Roger of Hoveden 29 and Benedict of 

 Peterborough, 30 relate that in that year, " unwilling to subject himself 

 to Sverri the Priest," he left his see, came to England, and excommu- 

 nicated Sverri. William of Newburgh also asserts that Sverri, " hav- 

 ing abjured the sacred order, and taken in marriage the daughter of 

 the Gaut-king, wished to be solemnly crowned by the archbishop. 

 But he, since he was a great man and not to be induced by prayers or 

 threats to pour sacred ointment on an execrable head, was driven by 

 Sverri from his fatherland." 31 Hence we infer that Eystein left Norway 

 after the Battle of Iluvellir, and arrived in England early in the summer, 

 " breathing anathemas " upon Sverri. 



Where did Eystein go when he reached England ? Probably he 

 visited friends among the prelates ; possibly he crossed the Channel to 

 seek King Henry II in Normandy, whither he had sailed on April 15th. 32 

 Henry did not return to England until July 28th, 1181, when he 

 landed at Portsmouth. He then moved about England for seven 

 months, devoting much of his time to bishoprics and abbeys and 

 church appointments. On September 12th another foreign prelate, 

 the Archbishop of Rheims, who had visited Becket's shrine early in the 

 month, found the king at Winchester. 33 In those years after Becket's 



26 The same amount per day the wardens paid for Abbot Hugh's expenses 

 during the last six weeks of his life, — £21 (Chronica Jocel., Camden Soc, 

 1840, pp. 109-110). 



27 Chap. 44. 



28 See note 25 (6) ; trans. J. Sephton, p. 99. 



29 Note 25 (1). 



30 Note 25 (2). 



31 Note 25 (3). 



32 R. W. Eyton, Court, Household, and Itinerary of K. Henry II, London, 

 1878, p. 231. 



33 Ibid., p. 243. 



