And in heathen fashion he was buried, and besung by Eyvind and the Skalds, though himself a zealously Christian king.

Hakon the _Good_; so one still finds him worthy of being called.

The sorrow on Hakon's death, Snorro tells us, was so great and universal, "that he was lamented both by friends and enemies; and they said that never again would Norway see such a king.".