ue son to Bui; wilt thou have quarter?' 'That dependeth
upon who is the bidder thereof,' said Sigurd. 'He offereth it who hath
power to give it, to wit Earl Eirik.' 'Then will I take it,' and loosed
was he from the rope. Then said Thorkel Leira: 'Though thou grantest
quarter, Earl, to all these men, yet never shall Vagn Akason depart
hence alive,' & so saying he ran forward with uplifted axe. Just then
the viking Skadi tripped in the rope, and dropped before Thorkel's feet,
and Thorkel fell flat over him, and Vagn seizing the axe dealt Thorkel
his death-blow. Then said the Earl: 'Wilt thou have quarter?' 'Yea
will I,' said he, 'if we all are given quarter.' 'Loose them from the
rope,' said the Earl, and so it was done accordingly.

Eighteen of these men were slain, but to twelve was quarter granted.

|| Now Earl Hakon & many of his men with him were sitting on a log.

Suddenly there twanged a bowstring from Bui's ship, but the arrow struck
Gizur of Valders, a feudatory who was sitting by the Earl & was clad in
brave apparel, & forthwith went sundry of Hakon's men out to the ship
and found on it Havard the Hewer kneeling by the bulwarks, for his feet
had been smitten off him. A bow had he in his hand and when they were
come out to the ship, as aforesaid, Havard asked: 'Who fell off the
tree-trunk?' 'One named Gizur,' they say. 'Then was my luck lesser than
I wished.' 'Ill-luck enough,' say they, 'and more hurt shalt thou not
do,' & therewith they slew him. After these things the dead were
searched, and the booty brought together for division; five and twenty
ships belonging to the Jomsborg vikings were thus cleared of booty. Tind
saith as follows:

'He, feeder of ravens,
(Their swords did smite their thighs)
Against the friends of the Wends long did struggle,
Until he who shields destroyed had
Five and twenty ships laid waste.'

|| Thereafter were the hosts dispersed.

Earl Hakon betook him to Throndhjem, taking it full ill that Eirik had
given Vagn Akason quarter.

Men say that during this battle Earl Hakon made sacrifice of his son
Erling in order to gain the victory, and afterwards the hailstorm came,
and that then the slaughtering changed over out of the hands of the
Jomsborgers. After the battle Earl Eirik went to the Uplands, and from
there east to his dominions, and with him went Vagn Akason. Thereafter
Eirik gave the daughter of Thorkel Leira-- Ingibiorg was her name-- in
marriage to Vagn,