men, and once when there was a great famine in Iceland
permitted King Harald four of his ships to carry meal to that island,
and decreed that six bushels thereof should not cost more than a hundred
ells of homespun; furthermore allowed he those that were stricken by
poverty to leave if so be that they could find themselves in victuals
the voyage thro' over to the main, and by these means was the land saved
and the harvest thereof bettered.

King Harald set up a bell for the church which was builded with timber
sent hither by the sainted King Olaf, and raised on a site nigh by where
the Althing takes place. Such memories have we here of King Harald & of
many other great gifts which he granted to men that sought them.

Halldor Snorrason and Ulf Uspakson, whereof we have afore wrote, hied
them to Norway even into the service of King Harald.

In manifold parts were they opposite one from the other. Halldor was
very big & strong and handsome, and King Harald bore witness regarding
him that he was among those of his men who altered least in unawaited
circumstances: whether such might be peril or tidings of joy, or through
things that might occur when danger was toward; never was he more
pleased nor less pleased, never did he sleep more nor less; nor took
meat & drink otherwise than as was his wont. Halldor was a silent man &
harsh, speaking bluntly, also was he stubborn and unmeek; and this was
not to the liking of the King since he had many other bold and willing
men.

Halldor abode with the King but a short time and then fared back to
Iceland, and made to himself a home at Hiardarholt, abiding there till
he was aged and become an old man.

|| In great love dwelt Ulf Uspakson with King Harald; a very wise man was
he, eloquent, strong, large-hearted, & resourceful. King Harald created
him his marshal and gave him in wedlock Jorun the daughter of Thorberg
whose daughter, to wit Thora, was wife to King Harald. The children of
Ulf and Jorun were Joan the Strong of Rasvold, & Brigida, the mother of
Sheep-Wolf, who was the father of Peter Burden-SwainSec. who again was the
father of Ulf Fly and of the other brothers and sisters of this latter.
The son of Joan the Strong was Erling, he that was the father of
Archbishop Eystein and his brothers.

King Harald gave Ulf the Marshal the rights of a feudatory and a grant
of twelve marks with more than half a folkland in Throndhjem; this
according to Stein Herdison in the lay of U