m on the side of
his mother, commanded the 'Crane'; right well manned were these twain
ships. Moreover had King Olaf eleven great ships from Throndhjem, ships
of twenty benches, two smaller ships and victuallers.

|| When King Olaf had completed the equipping of his fleet at Nidaros,
appointed he men throughout the whole of the district of Throndhjem to
be stewards collecting revenue, and annalists. He then sent to Iceland
Gizur the White & Hialti Skeggison to convert that country to
Christianity, and sent he with them that priest whose name is Thormod
and other consecrated men, but kept back with him as hostages the four
men of Iceland they that he deemed to be of greatest mark, to wit,
Kiartan Olafson, Halldor Gudmundson, Kolbein Thordson and Sverting
Runolfson; and it is said of the journey of Gizur & Hialti that they
were come unto Iceland or ever the meeting of the Althing & were present
at the Thing, and thereat was baptism legalized in Iceland and that
summer all folk were brought into the true fold.

|| The same spring likewise sent King Olaf Leif Eirikson to Greenland to
convert the people, and fared he thither that summer. On the main found
he the crew of a ship who were lying helpless on a wreck, and thereafter
he discovered Vineland the Good,Sec. yet came he the same summer to
Greenland; and with him had he a priest and teachers, and he took up his
abode at Brattalid with his father Eirik. Thereafter did men call him
Leif the Lucky; but Eirik, his father, said that the one thing was a
set-off to the other: on the one hand was the saving of the ship's crew
by Leif & on the other the bringing to Greenland of that 'juggler,' to
wit, the priest.

|| Then took King Olaf his host southward following the coast, and many
of his friends flocked to him, mighty men, who were bravely furnished
for an expedition with the King. The first man of these was own
brother-in-law to himself, Erling Skialgson with his large 'skeid'Sec.
wherein were thirty benches, and right well manned was she withal. There
came also to him his brothers-in-law Hyrning and Thorgeir, each steering
a large ship. Many other mighty men accompanied him, so that when he
left the country had he thirty long-ships. King Olaf sailed south
through Eyrasund, off the coasts of Denmark, and in due course came he
to Wendland.

There appointed he a tryst with King Burizlaf, and the Kings met and
spake together of the possessions claimed of King Olaf, an