d all the talk
between them went in kindly wise and the claims whereof King Olaf deemed
himself to have rights there were fully ordered.

Abode he there a long while during the summer, and saw many of his
friends.

|| As hath been related ere this, King Svein Two-beard had wedded Sigrid
the Haughty, & Sigrid was King Olaf's greatest foe, the reason therefor
being how King Olaf had broken his troth with her, as has been afore set
in fair script, and how he had smote her on the face.

Sigrid incited King Svein to do battle with King Olaf Tryggvason, saying
pretext enough was it that he had wedded the own sister to Svein, she
Tyri, without his leave: 'And never would thy forefathers have suffered
such a thing.' Such words as these had Queen Sigrid ever on her lips,
and so far went she with her persuasions that King Svein was full
willing to do battle with Olaf. So early in spring-tide sent King Svein
men east to Sweden, to Olaf the Swedish King, he that was his step-son,
& to Earl Eirik, to tell them that Olaf King of Norway had his fleet
abroad, and thought of faring to Wendland come summer; another message
took they likewise, namely that the Swedish King and the Earl should
call out their hosts and go to meet King Svein, and that then altogether
they should get their battle over against King Olaf. Now the King of
Sweden and Eirik the Earl were ready and eager for this venture, so
mustered they a large fleet in Sweden, and with the ships thereof went
south to Denmark and came thither at the time when King Olaf had already
sailed east. Of this speaketh Halldor in the song he made about Earl
Eirik:

'Crusher of Kings who battles loved,
From out of Sweden called,
To southern battle fared he forth,
Even with great hosts of men,
The wound-bird on the sea gat food while waiting,
Each and every warrior was fain to follow Eirik.'

|| So the King of the Swedes and Earl Eirik shaped a course to meet the
Danish King, and when all the fleets were come together was there a host
greater than one man could number.

|| When King Svein sent for that fleet, sent he moreover Earl Sigvaldi to
Wendland to spy on the expedition of King Olaf, and to lay such a lure
that King Svein and the others might assuredly fall in with King Olaf.

So Earl Sigvaldi set forth and went to Wendland and Jomsborg, and met
King Olaf Tryggvason. Now had they much friendly conversation one with
the other, and the Earl came greatly to lov