ud,
and thereafter down his throat, and cut its way out through his side.
After this manner ended the life of Raud. Then did the King take thence
very great wealth in gold & silver and other chattels, weapons, & divers
kinds of valuable things. The King caused all the fellows that had been
with Raud to be baptized save those who, not suffering this, were slain
or tortured. Then King Olaf took the dragon that had pertained unto Raud
and himself was her steersman, and a much larger and finer ship was she
than the 'Crane': forward she was fashioned with a dragon's head and aft
with a crookSec. ending in like manner as the tail of a dragon, & both the
prow & the whole of the stern were overlaid with gold. Now the King
called this ship the 'Serpent,' for when the sail was hoisted aloft was
it like unto the wings of a dragon, and this was the fairest ship in all
Norway.

The islands whereon Raud had lived were called Gilling and Haering, but
together were they styled Godey, & the Godey current (Godoestroem) lies
over to the north, betwixt them and the mainland. All that lived around
this fjord did King Olaf convert unto Christianity, and then went he
southward along the coast, and there happened much on that cruise which
is set forth in many legends about a giant and evil spirits which
attacked his men & sometimes himself, but rather will we write of facts
even such as the conversion of Norway & of those other lands whither he
bore Christianity. That same autumn did the King lead his host to
Throndhjem, bringing-to at Nidaros, and there making ready for a winter
sojourn.

|| And now will I next write what there is to tell of the men of Iceland.

|| That same autumn there came to Nidaros from Iceland Kiartan, the son
of Olaf Hoskuldson and the grandson, on his mother's side, of Eigil
Skallagrimson, who hath been called the likeliest man of those born in
Iceland.

There was also Halldor the son of Gudmund of Modruvellir, and Kolbein
the son of Thord Frey's-priest, the brother of Burning-Flosi, and
fourthly Sverting the son of Runolf the Priest.

These were all heathen, as were many others: some powerful, and others
not so powerful.

There came also from Iceland noble men who had accepted the true Faith
from Thangbrand, and one that was of these was Gizur the White, the son
of Teit Ketilbiarnson, whose mother was Alof, the daughter of Bodvar
Viking-Karason the 'hersir.' Bodvar's brother was Sigurd the father of
Eirik