King.

Queen Sigrid received the offer in a friendly spirit, and in due time
was their troth plighted.

King Olaf sent Queen Sigrid the great ring of gold which he had taken
from off the door of the temple at Ladir, and it was deemed a most noble
gift.

Now touching the matter of this marriage a meeting was to take place the
following spring by the Gota river, on the marches of the country.

While this ring which King Olaf had sent to Queen Sigrid was being
praised so exceedingly were the Queen's smiths, brothers, with her; & it
befell that they took the ring, and weighed it in their hands, & then
spake a word together privily. At this the Queen summoned them to her,
and asked of them why made they such mock of the ring, but they denied
that they were doing such a thing.

Then said she that she insisted upon knowing what it was they had
discovered; & thereupon they told her that there was falsehood in the
ring. Then did the Queen let the ring be broken asunder, and copper was
found to be inside it.

Thereon was the Queen wroth, and said that Olaf might play her false in
more things than this one.

|| That same winter went King Olaf up into Ringariki and introduced
Christianity there. Now it had befallen that Asta, the daughter of
Gudbrand, was speedily wedded after the death of Harald the Grenlander
to a man named Sigurd Sow,Sec. who was King of Ringariki. Sigurd was the
son of Sigurd o' the Copse who again was son to Harald Fair-hair.
Dwelling with Asta at that time was Olaf her son by Harald the
Grenlander, for he was being reared at the house of his step-father
Sigurd Sow. When King Olaf Tryggvason went to Ringariki to introduce
Christianity, Sigurd let himself be christened together with Asta his
wife, & Olaf her son,Sec. & for the latter stood Olaf Tryggvason sponsor;
the babe was at that time three winters old.

King Olaf then fared southward again to Vik, and abode there the winter,
& this was the third winter that he was King of Norway.

|| Early in the spring fared King Olaf eastward to Konungahella (the
King's rock) to the tryst with Queen Sigrid, and when they were met,
talked they one with the other over the matter which had been set afoot
in the winter, to wit, that they should wed one another.

Right hopeful did the matter seem to them, until King Olaf spake & said
that Sigrid must accept christening and the true Faith.

Then did the Queen make answer: 'Depart from the faith that I have he