ABSTRACT
WHEN they think about the inexpressible patience of the prelates I have mentioned and the holiness of their lives, and on the other hand the horror of their own immeasurable crime, the dishonour to their progeny and descendants, the oppressive severity to the Church, and the many, innumerable evils which will be the result of hatred and dissension, the northern kings and princes very often 1 take back into their grace and favour wronged bishops and prelates because of their saintly lives and marvellous steadfastness in the faith, and in fear that the wrongs they themselves inflicted should be punished by the God of vengeance. In such a way, to the wonder and congratulation of all, that mighty king of Sweden, Magnus Ladulås, was quickly reconciled with the most holy Bishop Brynolf of Skara, who had gained the reputation of an enemy through the machinations of schemers and whose death had many times been sought. On the day devoted to the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin, about the year of Our Lord 1285, when the king had heard a solemn mass celebrated by the bishop, he put aside all his weapons and those of his attendants and prostrated himself at the steps of the altar and at the bishop’s feet.
