only wanted to have been entreated to have spared Egil's life.
Bjorn Krephende speaks of these things:--

"King Magnus in the robbers' gore
Dyed red his sword; and round the shore
The wolves howled out their wild delight,
At corpses swinging in their sight.
Have ye not heard how the king's sword
Punished the traitors to their lord?
How the king's thralls hung on the gallows
Old Thorer and his traitor-fellows?"

7. OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THE THRONDHJEM PEOPLE.

After this King Magnus sailed south to Throndhjem, and brought up in the
fjord, and punished severely all who had been guilty of treason towards
him; killing some, and burning the houses of others. So says Bjorn
Krephende:--

"He who despises fence of shields
Drove terror through the Throndhjem fields,
When all the land through which he came
Was swimming in a flood of flame.
The raven-feeder, will I know,
Cut off two chieftans at a blow;
The wolf could scarcely ravenous be,
The ernes flew round the gallows-tree."

Svein Harald Fletter's son, fled out to sea first, and sailed then to
Denmark, and remained there; and at last came into great favour with
King Eystein, the son of King Magnus, who took so great a liking to
Svein that he made him his dish-bearer, and held him in great respect.
King Magnus had now alone the whole kingdom, and he kept good peace
in the land, and rooted out all vikings and lawless men. He was a
man quick, warlike, and able, and more like in all things to his
grandfather, King Harald, in disposition and talents than to his father.

8. OF THE BONDE SVEINKE, AND SIGURD ULSTRENG.

There was a man called Sveinke Steinarson, who was very wealthy, and
dwelt in Viken at the Gaut river. He had brought up Hakon Magnuson
before Thorer of Steig took him. Sveinke had not yet submitted to King
Magnus. King Magnus ordered Sigurd Ulstreng to be called, and told him
he would send him to Sveinke with the command that he should quit the
king's land and domain. "He has not yet submitted to us, or shown us due
honour." He added, that there were some lendermen east in Viken, namely
Svein Bryggjufot, Dag Eilifson, and Kolbjorn Klakke, who could bring
this matter into right bearing. Then Sigurd said, "I did not know there
was the man in Norway against whom three lendermen besides myself were
needful." The king replied, "Thou needst not take this help, unless
it b