will choose the boon; I choose peace for my
brother Calf and removal of his outlawry, and the restoring unto him of
all his possessions; and furthermore I ask that he shall have all his
appointments and all the power that he had or ever he left the land.'

And the King said yea to all whatever Fin asked of him, & they twain
before witnesses took one another by the hand thereon. Thereafter said
Fin: 'But what am I to proffer Hakon so that he may promise thee peace,
for he it is who hath the upper hand of those kinsmen'? The King said:
'First shalt thou find out what Hakon is like to demand so that
reconciliation may be brought about, and thereafter must thou forward my
cause as best thou canst; but should the worst come to the worst, then
deny him nothing save & except the kingship itself.'

|| Then went King Harald southward to More where mustered he men, and a
great number was gathered unto him.

|| So Fin Arnison fared into the town & took with him his house-carles to
the number of some eighty men, and being come to the town held he a
Thing with the townsmen. Now Fin spoke long and wisely at this Thing,
bidding townsman and peasant take any other course rather than live in
hatred with his King or drive him away; & he reminded them how much ill
they had been brought to suffer when they had acted in this wise
aforetime, towards the sainted King Olaf.

He said, moreover, that the King would atone for these murders in such
manner as the best & wisest men might adjudge; and the outcome of the
speech of Fin was that the men gave their word to let the matter rest
until the return of the messengers despatched by Bergliot to Hakon
Ivarson in the Uplands. Thereafter fared Fin out to Orkadal with the men
who had accompanied him to town, and further up to the Dofrafjal and
eastward (south) across those mountains; and firstly went he to see his
kinsman-in-law Earl Orm (the Earl was wedded to Sigrid the daughter to
Fin) & to him disclosed his errand.

|| When this was done, appointed they a tryst with Hakon Ivarson, & when
they were met did Fin before Hakon lay his errand in accordance with the
behest of King Harald. But on the instant was it seen from the speech of
Hakon that he deemed himself bound to avenge the slaying of his kinsman
Eindrid; and said he, moreover, that he had received word from
Throndhjem that there would come to him forces sufficient for an
uprising against the King.

|| Then did Fin open unto H