scene, not in mild mood towards the new jarl there; indignantly
dismissed said jarl, and appointed a brother of Rognwald (brother,
notes Dahlmann), though Rognwald had left other sons. Which done,
Haarfagr sailed with all speed to the Orkneys, there to avenge that
cutting of an eagle on the human back on Turf-Einar's part.
Turf-Einar did not resist; submissively met the angry Haarfagr, said
he left it all, what had been done, what provocation there had been,
to Haarfagr's own equity and greatness of mind. Magnanimous Haarfagr
inflicted a fine of sixty marks in gold, which was paid in ready money
by Turf-Einar, and so the matter ended.



CHAPTER II.

ERIC BLOOD-AXE AND BROTHERS.

In such violent courses Haarfagr's sons, I know not how many of them,
had come to an untimely end; only Eric, the accomplished sea-rover,
and three others remained to him. Among these four sons, rather
impatient for property and authority of their own, King Harald, in his
old days, tried to part his kingdom in some eligible and equitable
way, and retire from the constant press of business, now becoming
burdensome to him. To each of them he gave a kind of kingdom; Eric,
his eldest son, to be head king, and the others to be feudatory under
him, and pay a certain yearly contribution; an arrangement which did
not answer well at all. Head-King Eric insisted on his tribute;
quarrels arose as to the payment, considerable fighting and
disturbance, bringing fierce destruction from King Eric upon many
valiant but too stubborn Norse spirits, and among the rest upon all