iately stood up with all his men, had all his loose
property removed from the farm to the forest, and all the people left
the house in the night. When the king came he halted there all night;
but Hakon rode away, and came east to Svithjod to King Steinkel and
stayed with him all summer. King Harald returned to the town, travelled
northwards to Throndhjem district, and remained there all summer; but in
autumn he returned eastwards to Viken.

72. OF EARL HAKON.

As soon as Earl Hakon heard the king had gone north he returned
immediately in summer to the Uplands (A.D. 1063), and remained there
until the king had returned from the north. Then the earl went east
into Vermaland, where he remained during the winter, and where the king,
Steinkel, gave him fiefs. For a short time in winter he went west to
Raumarike with a great troop of men from Gautland and Vermaland, and
received the scat and duties from the Upland people which belonged to
him, and then returned to Glutland, and remained there till spring. King
Harald had his seat in Oslo all winter (A.D. 1064), and sent his men to
the Uplands to demand the scat, together with the king's land dues, and
the mulcts of court; but the Uplanders said they would pay all the scat
and dues which they had to pay, to Earl Hakon as long as he was in life,
and had forfeited his life or his fief; and the king got no dues that
winter.

73. AGREEMENT BETWEEN KING HARALD AND KING SVEIN.

This winter messengers and ambassadors went between Norway and Denmark,
whose errand was that both Northmen and Danes should make peace, and
a league with each other, and to ask the kings to agree to it. These
messages gave favourable hopes of a peace; and the matter proceeded so
far that a meeting for peace was appointed at the Gaut river between
King Harald and King Svein. When spring approached, both kings assembled
many ships and people for this meeting. So says a skald in a poem on
this expedition of the kings, which begins thus:--

"The king, who from the northern sound
His land with war-ships girds around,
The raven-feeder, filled the coast
With his proud ships, a gallant host!
The gold-tipped stems dash through the foam
That shakes the seamen's planked home;
The high wave breaks up to the mast,
As west of Halland on they passed,

"Harald whose word is fixed and sure,
Whose ships his land from foes secure,
And Svein, whose isl