The Heimskringla on Kolbeinn

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 38. Of King Olaf'S Miracle.

• attestation: Thora, mother of King Sigurd the Crusader, ordered a young poor man named Kolbein's tongue cut out for taking meat from her tub

  "There was a young and poor man called Kolbein; and Thora, King Sigurd the Crusader's mother, had ordered his tongue to be cut out of his mouth, and for no other cause than that this young man had taken a piece of meat out of the king-mother's tub"

• attestation: Kolbein claimed the cook had given him the meat, and the cook had not dared serve it to Thora

  "which he said the cook had given him, and which the cook had not ventured to serve up to her"

• attestation: Kolbein came to Nidaros and kept vigil at Christ church, where he dreamed King Olaf the Saint pulled on the stump of his tongue

  "Afterwards the young man came to Nidaros, and watched in the Christ church; but at the second mass for Olaf before matins he fell asleep, and thought he saw King Olaf the Saint coming to him; and that Olaf talked to him, and took hold with his hands of the stump of his tongue and pulled it"

• attestation: Kolbein awoke with his speech fully restored and thanked God and Saint Olaf at the holy shrine

  "Now when he awoke he found himself restored, and joyfully did he thank our Lord and the holy Saint Olaf, who had pitied and helped him; for he had come there speechless, and had gone to the holy shrine, and went away cured, and with his speech clear and distinct"