XXIV adjecit: pat ætlimennpu yrkir beturenn páfin a:NePapaqvidem in pöetandotibicompararimeretur. Mox- que Sturlam de ejus exilio et profectionis causa interrogare cæpit, qvi luculenter omnia exposuit, Raf- num non obscure accusans, qvod sibi qvædam affinxisset, qvædam vero in pejorem partem traduxisset, nunc autem se in Regis esse potestate, ejusque et divina misericordia indigere. Cui Ilex comiter re- spondit: carmina tua, qvæ audivi, eam de te opinionem rnihi indiderunt, ut Poeta sis et maximus et opti- musj qvæ tibi mea gratia et commoda raecum mansione remunerabor, sed qvid pater meus tibi faciar, dies docebit, ego autetn te illi de nota meliore commendabo, Ab eo momento Rex ei semper fuit ami- cissimus, nec minore gratia apud Reginam florebat, ad qvorum exemplum alii omnes se componebant. Has autem minudas, qvæ paucis verbis absolvi poterant, tam prolixe enumeravimus, ut documento essent, qvinam tum temporisRegum etMagnatummores essentetqvalis inidneribus vivendi modus, qvan- taque in qvotidiana conversadone simplicitas; præcipue autem hæc omnia de Magni Regis humanitate, egregium ferunt testimonium,, qvi viro peregrino, valde ab hostibus denigrato et mord destinato offen- sas condonavit, et non tantum in amicidam recepit, sededam ad honores evexit. Pauper et omnium indigens Sturla in Norvegiam venerat, sed paupertatem sublevavit regia mu- nificentia, qvæ ei necessaria largiter præbuit; et in ,amicidam receptus, non in inferioribus hæsit gradi- bus, sed brevi inter amicos interioris admissionis et consiliarios numerari coepit; cumqueRex ejus eru- ditionemeteloqvendamcognitas haberet, HistoriographiRegiimunusei commisit, etutápatris sui historia initium faceret, mandavit, Anno itaque 1264, Sturla vitamHaconis Regis literis mandare aggressus videtur. Appetente autem vere Sturla Regis permissu in Islandiam remeavit, sed qvamdiu ibidem hac vice subsdterit, tam incertum est, qvam certum, qvod paulopost in Norvegiam transiverit, ibiqueplu- res annos hæserit; eo enim ibi manente, uxor ejus Helga et duo filii transfretasse videntur, de his vero annis Annales valde diversa tradunt. Qvidam Sturlam et Thorvardum novum Legum Codicem Anno zayi in Islandiam extulisse volunt; qvidam autem id, sed minus recte in Annum 1273 rejiciunt, sed qvicqvid de eo sit, id certum est, hunc codicem circa Annum 1270 concinnatum, Regem Magnum La- gabæter in Islandiam misisse, Sturlamque totius Islandiæ Nomophylacem constituisse, qvem priusqvam á se dimisit primo in aulicorum et deinde dapiferorum numerum adscivit. Qvanta Regis gratia tum flo- ruerit et qvarn familiarem in ea habuerit confidendam, vel inde patet, qvod invitante eum in Sveciam Birgero comiti, præsente ipso Rege dicere ausus sit, Regem sibi in Islandiam transeunffi veniam conces- sisse; qvod audiens Rex leviter tantum subrisit et tacendo veritatem eum proferre simulavit, unde etiani « hujus Regis summa humanitas cognosci potest. Ut non omnino certum est, qvando Nomophylacis officium acceperit, ita nec qvid in eo utile aut memorabile gesserit. Id tantum patet, qvod novum legum codicem in Islandiam introduxerit, ec ad ejus præscriptum jus dixerit; nam licet Islandis hunc codicem magnopere displicuisse certum sit, Ratni tandem Oddidæ Præfecd Regii et Sturlæ Nomophylacis auctoritate, accedente haud contemnendo par- dum augmento Arnæ Episcopi mandato et persvasionibus, totus codex Anno 1272 in Ieges relatus fuit, excepto tantum titulo, qvi de hæreditate agit, qvi eorundem auctoritate et persvasionibus Anno 1274 receptus fuit. Anno 1275 unacum aliis ad Regem scripsit (vide Hist. Eccl. Tom. II. pag. 10 not. a) de novo jure Ecclesiasdco, et eodem Anno Arnas Episcopus de senescente ejus auctoritate scripsit. Cum autem Annis 1277 et 78 controversiæ inter clerum et laicos fervere inciperent, prudens senex semet eidem subducere consultissimum ratus, in Norvegiam Anno 1278 uldma vice trajecit Regique Nomothesiæ offi- cium, qvod adeo ante octennium acceperat, reddidit; nam et ejus reditum in patriam Annales ad An- num 1279 et Thorvardi ac Lodini de Bacha Nomothesiæ initium Arnæ Episcopi vita referunt. Sturlam suæ ætatis polidcorum post patruum Snorronem et fratrem Olaum doctissimum fuisse communis est opinio; fuit enim poéta felicissimus, juris peritus, historicus, ándqvarius, philosophus et politicus nemini secundus, bellator animosus et duxnon imperitus; plurimis enim præliis et velitadonibus, qvæ ejus

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