6. MIRACLES OF KING OLAF THE SAINT.

King Olaf had a church of stone built in Nidaros, on the spot where King

Olaf's body had first been buried, and the altar was placed directly

over the spot where the king's grave had been. This church was

consecrated and called Christ Church; and King Olaf's shrine was removed

to it, and was placed before the altar, and many miracles took place

there. The following summer, on the same day of the year as the church

was consecrated, which was the day before Olafsmas, there was a great

assemblage of people, and then a blind man was restored to sight. And on

the mass-day itself, when the shrine and the holy relics were taken out

and carried, and the shrine itself, according to custom, was taken and

set down in the churchyard, a man who had long been dumb recovered his

speech again, and sang with flowing tongue praise-hymns to God, and to

the honour of King Olaf the Saint. The third miracle was of a woman

who had come from Svithjod, and had suffered much distress on this

pilgrimage from her blindness; but trusting in God's mercy, had come

travelling to this solemnity. She was led blind into the church to hear

mass this day; but before the service was ended she saw with both

eyes, and got her sight fully and clearly, although she had been blind

fourteen years. She returned with great joy, praising God and King Olaf

the Saint.

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