followers boarded them straightway. They met with no resistance, for
the sons of Olaf leapt forthwith on board their ships and set upon
them. Stein and his brother were laid hands on and beheaded overboard.
The sons of Olaf now turn back, and their journey was deemed to have
sped most briskly.




CHAP. L

The End of Hrefna. The Peace Settled, A.D. 1003


Olaf went to meet Kjartan's body. He sent men south to Burg to tell
Thorstein Egilson these tidings, and also that he would have his help
for the blood-suit; and if any great men should band themselves
together against him with the sons of Osvif, he said he wanted to have
the whole matter in his own hands. The same message he sent north to
Willowdale, to Gudmund, his son-in-law, and to the sons of Asgeir;
with the further information that he had charged as guilty of the
slaying of Kjartan all the men who had taken part in the ambush,
except Ospak, son of Osvif, for he was already under outlawry because
of a woman who was called Aldis, the daughter of Holmganga-Ljot of
Ingjaldsand. Their son was Ulf, who later became a marshal to King
Harold Sigurdsson, and had for wife Jorunn, the daughter of Thorberg.
Their son was Jon, father of Erlend the Laggard, the father of
Archbishop Egstein. Olaf had proclaimed that the blood-suit should be
taken into court at Thorness Thing. He had Kjartan's body brought
home, and a tent was rigged over it, for there was as yet no church