ld
aforetime, and which my kindred held before me will I never: yet will I
not account it against thee shouldst thou believe on whatsoever god may
seem best to thy mind.' Then Olaf waxed exceedingly wroth and made
answer hastily: 'Heathen as a dog art thou-- why should I wed thee?' and
smote her in the face with the glove he was holding in his hand.

Then stood he up on his feet & she arose likewise, and Sigrid said,
'This might be thy undoing.' Thereafter were they parted, the King going
northward to Vik, and the Queen east to Sweden.

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|| Thence King Olaf fared to Tunsberg & having come thither held he a
Thing and gave out thereat that all men who were known and proven to be
dealers in witchcraft and spellwork, or were wizards, should depart out
of the land. Thereafter did the King cause the countryside thereabouts
be searched for such men, & commanded them to be brought unto him. And
when they were come to him a man there was among them called Eyvind
Well-spring, who was the grandson of Rognovald Straight-legs, the son of
King Harald Fair-hair.

Now Eyvind was a wizard & well versed in witchcraft. King Olaf caused
all these men to be assembled in a certain hall, which had been made
ready for them in goodly wise, and therein feasted he them & gave them
much strong drink, and when they were all drunken caused he the chamber
to be set on fire. Thus it came about that all the folk who were therein
were burned except Eyvind Well-spring who saved himself by climbing
through the smoke-hole.

Eyvind having made off and sped far on his way, fell in with men who
were going to the King, and he bade these men tell Olaf that he, Eyvind,
had gotten away from out of the fire, and never again would he come into
the King's hands; and that moreover would he pursue his arts even as he
had done before.

When these men were come to King Olaf they told of Eyvind according as
he had bidden them, and ill-pleased enough was the King that Eyvind was
not dead.

|| When spring was come King Olaf left Vik and went the round of his
manors, and sent he word throughout Vik that come the summer would he
call out an host and with it fare northward in the land.

Thereafter went he north (west) to Agdir, and when Lent was drawing to
an end sailed northward to Rogoland, and arrived on Easter EveSec. at
Ogvaldsnes in the isle of Kormt, where an Easter festival had been made
ready for him.

Nigh upon three hundred men had