es to
be christened.

So the Earl being thus beset chose to accept baptism, and was baptized
there and then with all his men. Thereafter swore the Earl an oath that
he would become the King's man, & give him his son for a hostage-- his
name was Whelp or Hound-- and Olaf took him home with him to Norway.

|| Olaf then sailed eastward out to sea, and when he left the main, went
in to the Isle of Most, where he went on land in Norway for the first
time.

He caused a Mass to be said in his tent, & on the self-same spot was a
church afterward builded. Now Thorir Klakka told the King that their
wisest course was to keep secret his identity, and to let not the
slightest rumour about him get abroad, and to travel as speedily as
might be so as to fall upon the Earl while he was still unawares.

Even so did King Olaf, faring northward day and night according to the
set of the wind, & he let not the people know of his journey, nor who
it was that was sailing. When he was come north to Agdanes gat he
tidings that Earl Hakon was within the fjord, & moreover that he was at
variance with the peasantry. Now when Thorir heard tell of this quite
otherwise was it from what he had expected, for after the battle of the
Jomsborg vikings all men in Norway were full friendly with Earl Hakon by
reason of the victory he had won, & which had saved the land from war;
but now so ill had things befallen that here was the Earl at strife with
the peasantry, & that with a great chief come into the land.

|| At this time Hakon the Earl was a guest at Medalhus in Gaulardal, his
ships lying off Vigg the while.

Now there was a certain Orm Lyrgia, a wealthy yeoman who lived at Bynes,
and he had to wife Gudrun the daughter of Bergthor of Lundar, & so fair
a woman was this Gudrun that she was called the 'sun of Lundar.'

And on such an errand as this, namely to bring unto him Orm's wife, did
Earl Hakon send his thralls.

The men coming thither to Bynes made known their errand, but Orm bade
them first go out & sup, & before they had well eaten there had come to
him many men whom he had sent for from the neighbouring homesteads. Then
said Orm that he would in nowise suffer Gudrun to go with the thralls;
and Gudrun herself bade the thralls go tell the Earl that never would
she go to him save he sent Thora of Rimul,Sec. a wealthy lady and one of
the Earl's sweethearts, to fetch her. Then the thralls said that they
would come once again in such a man