took his way out
of the fjord. When Einar's wife Bergliot, who was in the house which
Einar had possessed in the town, heard of Einar's fall, she went
immediately to the king's house where the bondes army was and urged them
to the attack; but at the same moment the king was rowing out of the
river. Then said Bergliot, "Now we want here my relation, Hakon Ivarson:
Einar's murderer would not be rowing out of the river if Ivar stood here
on the riverbank." Then Bergliot adorned Einar's and Eindride's
corpses and buried them in Olaf's church, beside King Magnus Olafson's
burial-place. After Einar's murder the king was so much disliked for
that deed that there was nothing that prevented the lendermen and bondes
from attacking the king, and giving him battle, but the want of some
leader to raise the banner in the bonde army.

46. OF KING HARALD AND FIN ARNASON.

Fin Arnason dwelt at Austrat in Yrjar, and was King Harald's lenderman
there. Fin was married to Bergliot, a daughter of Halfdan, who was a son
of Sigurd Syr, and brother of Olaf the Saint and of King Harald. Thora,
King Harald's wife, was Fin Arnason's brother's daughter: and Fin and
all his brothers were the king's dearest friends. Fin Arnason had been
for some summers on a viking cruise in the West sea; and Fin, Guthorm
Gunhildson and Hakon Ivarson had all been together on that cruise. King
Harald now proceeded out of Throndhjem fjord to Austrat, where he was
well received. Afterwards the king and Fin conversed with each other
about this new event of Einar's and his son's death, and of the
murmuring and threatening which the bondes made against the king.

Fin took up the conversation briskly, and said, "Thou art managing ill
in two ways: first, in doing all manner of mischief; and next, in being
so afraid that thou knowest not what to do."

The king replied, laughing, "I will send thee, friend, into the town to
bring about a reconciliation with the bondes; and if that will not do,
thou must go to the Uplands and bring matters to such an understanding
with Hakon Ivarson that he shall not be my opponent."

Fin replies, "And how wilt thou reward me if I undertake this dangerous
errand; for both the people of Throndhjem and the people of Upland
are so great enemies to thee that it would not be safe for any of thy
messengers to come among them, unless he were one who would be spared
for his own sake?"

The king replies, "Go thou on this embassy, for I know