e ire of the peasants, and moreover knowing
full well that they had so large an host, change his manner of address
and made as if he were agreed with them and spake to them thus: 'It is
my wish that we should be friends again, in such good accord as we were
aforetime.

Thither will I go wheresoever ye hold your greatest blood-offering, &
witness your worship; then will we all take counsel together as to what
manner of worship we will have, and be then all of one mind thereon.'
Now when the King spake thus mildly to the peasants, grew they softened
in temper, and all the converse went peaceably and in seemly fashion,
and at the end was it determined that there should be a midsummer
sacrifice at Maerin, and that thither all the chiefs and wealthy
peasants should go as the custom was, and that thither likewise King
Olaf was to go.

|| Now there was a certain wealthy yeoman whose name was Skeggi (Iron
Beard, called they him) who dwelt at Uphaug in Yriar, and he it was who
first spake up against the King at the Thing, and the cause thereof was
because he was the spokesman of the peasantry against Christianity. But
in the manner aforesaid was the Thing brought to an end, and the
peasants went to their homes, and the King across to Ladir.

|| At this time was King Olaf lying with his ships in the Nid (thirty
ships had he, and his folk were of great prowess) but the King himself
was ofttimes at Ladir, being kept company by his body-guard.

Now when the time appointed for the blood-offering at Maerin was drawing
nigh held King Olaf a mighty feast at Ladir; thither there came to it
chieftains and other wealthy peasants from Strind & from places up in
Gauldal, in accordance with the bidding of King Olaf. When all things
were ready and the guests come, there was held on the first evening a
large banquet, and the cups thereat were often charged & men became
drunk; that night slept all men there in peace. On the morrow early,
after the King was clad, ordered he Mass to be said, and when the Mass
was ended his men sounded their horns for a house-Thing, and the Thing
being established rose the King to his feet and spake, saying: 'A Thing
held we at Frosta, and thereat I bade the peasantry let themselves be
christened; but they in their turn bade me attend a blood-offering with
them, even as the foster-son to King Hakon Adalstein had attended one.
And there was accord betwixt us inasmuch as it was determined that we
should meet