e here?"

"She is here," said the king.

Then Earl Fin broke out with the ugly expressions which since have been
preserved, as a proof that he was so mad with rage that he could not
govern his tongue:--

"No wonder thou hast bit so strongly, if the mare was with thee."

Earl Fin got life and quarter and the king kept him a while about him.
But Fin was rather melancholy and obstinate in conversation; and King
Harald said, "I see, Fin, that thou dost not live willingly in company
with me and thy relations; now I will give thee leave to go to thy
friend King Svein."

The earl said, "I accept of the offer willingly, and the more gratefully
the sooner I get away from hence."

The king afterwards let Earl Fin be landed and the traders going to
Halland received him well. King Harald sailed from thence to Norway with
his fleet; and went first to Oslo, where he gave all his people leave to
go home who wished to do so.

69. OF KING SVEIN.

King Svein, it is told, sat in Denmark all that winter, and had his
kingdom as formerly. In winter he sent men north to Halland for Karl the
bonde and his wife. When Karl came the king called him to him and asked
him if he knew him, or thought he had ever seen him before.

Karl replies, "I know thee, sire, and knew thee before, the moment I saw
thee; and God be praised if the small help I could give was of any use
to thee."

The king replies, "I have to reward thee for all the days I have to
live. And now, in the first place, I will give thee any farm in Seeland
thou wouldst desire to have; and, in the next place, will make thee a
great man, if thou knowest how to conduct thyself."

Karl thanked the king for his promise, and said he had now but one thing
to ask.

The king asked what that was.

Karl said that he would ask to take his wife with him.

The king said, "I will not let thee do that; but I will provide thee a
far better and more sensible wife. But thy wife can keep the bonde-farm
ye had before and she will have her living from it."

The king gave Karl a great and valuable farm, and provided him a good
marriage; and he became a considerable man. This was reported far and
wide and much praised; and thus it came to be told in Norway.

70. OF THE TALK OF THE COURT-MEN.

King Harald stayed in Oslo the winter after the battle at Nis-river
(A.D. 1063). In autumn, when the men came from the south, there was
much talk and many stories about the battle which the