THE TRUE STATE OF ICELAND 



A.D. 



1592. 



In the 

 yeere of 

 Christ. 



The Bishops of Schalholt. 



Holen, who seemed 

 worthy to be sirnamed 

 cruel) he had the same 

 commendations for 



mercy and justice, that 

 Godschalchus had. 

 He died : or thereabout. 



XXVI. 



Augmundus. 



Chosen in the yeere 

 wherein Stephen de- 

 ceased. Entreth the see. 



While he was Bishop, the 

 kings Lieu-tenant with 

 some of his followers 

 being invited to Schal- 

 holt, in the time of the 

 banquet, was slaine by 

 certaine conspirators : 

 because hee had in all 

 places wickedly wasted 

 the inhabitants and 

 their goods. But Aug- 

 mundus as the authour 

 of that murther (al- 

 though he purged him- 

 selfe with an othe) 

 being transported into 

 Denmarke, there ended 

 his life. 



XXVII. 



Gysserus. 



Elected, Augmundus yet 

 living. 



Entred the see. 



He was the abolisher of 

 Popish traditions about 

 Priests marriages : his 

 owne mariage being 

 solemnized at Schal- 

 holt. [XXVIII. 

 15 



The Bishops of Holen. 



withstanding Gysserus 

 and Martinus bishops 

 of Schalholt, was com- 

 manded by the most 

 religious king Christan 

 the 3. under paine of 

 banishment to come 

 with all speed into 

 Denmarke. But ne- 

 glecting the kings com- 

 maundement, hee tooke 

 Martine bishop of 

 Schalholt, and com- 

 mitted him to ward. 

 At length he himselfe 

 also being taken by a 

 man of great name 

 (whom before that 

 time, it is saide, he 

 had provoked) and 

 being brought to 

 Schalholt, w^as, to- 

 gether with his two 

 sonnes, by the autho- 

 ritie of the kings Lieu- 

 tenant beheaded. In 

 revenge whereof not 

 long after, the saide 

 Lieu-tenant with some 

 of his company, was 

 villanously slaine by 

 certaine roysters, 

 which were once ser- 

 vants to the parties 

 beheaded. 



XXI. 



Olaus Hialterus. 

 Departed his countrey. 

 Entreth the see. 



[This 



In the 

 yeere of 

 Christ. 



[I. 576.] 



551 



1552. 

 1553- 



