t host and them incited she to fight inasmuch as
in her lay, but at that same moment rowed the King down the river, then
quoth Bergliot: 'Now lack we my kinsman Hakon Ivarson; ne'er would the
murderers of Eindrid be rowing there adown the river were Hakon on its
banks.'

Thereafter caused Bergliot the bodies of Einar & Eindrid be laid out,
and they were buried in the church of Saint Olaf hard by the tomb of
King Magnus Olafson.

After the fall of Einar became King Harald so greatly hated for his
share in that foul deed, that the feudatories and peasants only held
back from fighting with him because to them pertained no leader to raise
the banner for them.

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|| Now dwelling at Austrat in Iriar was Fin Arnison, feudatory of King
Harald.

Fin was married with Bergliot, the daughter of Halfdan the son of Sigurd
Sow, & Halfdan was the brother of King Olaf and King Harald.

Thora, wife to King Harald, was the daughter of the brother of Fin
Arnison; sworn friends to the King were Fin and his brethren. Certain
summers had Fin been in viking warfare westward and on those quests he &
Guthorm GunhildsonSec. & Hakon Ivarson had sailed in company. So fared King
Harald down the Throndhjem fjord and out to Austrat, where he was well
received, and thereafter communed they together, Fin and he, & took
counsel one with the other as to the outcome concerning what had but
then befallen, to wit the slaying of Einar and his son, and then of that
murmuring and turmoil the which the Throndhjem folk were raising over
against the King.

Fin answered hastily: 'Wrong art thou on every count; whatsoever thou
doest thou doest ill & thereafter art thou so afeared that thou knowest
no whither to turn.'

The King rejoined laughing: 'Kinsman-in-law, I will send thee in to town
& thou shalt make it up betwixt the peasants and me; & if that business
cometh to naught then shalt thou fare to the Uplands, & good feeling
again cause with Ivar Hakonson & so bring it about that he goeth not to
war against me.' Fin answered: 'What will be my reward an I go on this
fool's errand, for alike Throndhjem folk and Upland folk are so hostile
to thee that no messenger of thine could fare to them save at his own
risk.'

The King answered: 'Go thou on this errand, kinsman-in-law, for well wot
I an any man could bring us to a reconciliation it would be thee, & ask
thyself of us what boon thou wilt have therefor.'

'Keep thou thy word, and I