ay almost entirely, a man ran out to the
ice, and began hewing away at it like a madman. Then said one of the
men, "It is going now as usual, that none can do so much as Hal who
killed Kodran, when once he lays himself to the work. See how he is
hewing away at the ice." There was a man in the crew of Magnus, the
king's son, who was called Thormod Eindridason; and when he heard the
name of Kodran's murderer he ran up to Hal, and gave him a death-wound.
Kodran was a son of Gudmund Eyjolfson; and Valgerd, who was a sister of
Gudmund, was the mother of Jorun, and the grandmother by the mother's
side of this Thormod. Thormod was a year old when Kodran was killed, and
had never seen Hal Utrygson until now. When the ice was broken all the
way out to the water, Magnus drew his ship out, set sail directly, and
sailed westward across the lake; but the king's ship, which lay farthest
up the river, came out the last. Hal had been in the king's retinue,
and was very dear to him; so that the king was enraged at his death.
The king came the last into the harbour, and Magnus had let the murderer
escape into the forest, and offered to pay the mulct for him; and the
king had very nearly attacked Magnus and his crew, but their friends
came up and reconciled them.

76. OF KING HARALD.

That winter (A.D. 1065) King Harald went up to Raumarike, and had many
people with him; and he accused the bondes there of having kept from
him his scat and duties, and of having aided his enemies to raise
disturbance against him. He seized on the bondes and maimed some, killed
others, and robbed many of all their property. They who could do it fled
from him. He burned everything in the districts and laid them altogether
waste. So says Thiodolf:--

"He who the island-people drove,
When they against his power strove,
Now bridle's Raumarike's men,
Marching his forces through their glen.
To punish them the fire he lights
That shines afar off in dark nights
From house and yard, and, as he says,
Will warn the man who disobeys."

Thereafter the king went up to Hedemark, burnt the dwellings, and made
no less waste and havoc there than in Raumarike. From thence he went
to Hadeland and Ringerike, burning and ravaging all the land. So says
Thiodolf:--

"The bonde's household goods are seen
Before his door upon the green,
Smoking and singed: and sparks red hot
Glow in the thatched roof of his c