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pay the bonders for their betrayal of their lord. Methinks many a one
would get loose from the flock, if he saw home to his house, and the
reek and flame thereof, and wotted unclearly what tidings were to tell
of his bairns and women and old folk, their fathers, mothers, and other
kindred.’ . . . But when King Olaf heard the eagerness of the folk, he
craved hearing, and said: ‘Forsooth the bonders are full worthy of be-
ing dealt with, even as ye will; they know this withal, that I have done
as much as burning them in their abodes, and have laid upon them
other heavy punishments. I have done this, that I have burnt them
within, when they had gone away from their faith, and taken up blood-
offerings, and would not yield to my words; but then had we God’s
right to awreak; whereas now is this treason much less of worth,
though they hold not their troth to me; though for sooth it is, that it
will not be deemed beseeming to those who will be men of mandom.
Yet I am here somewhat more free to grant them some release, when
they misdo against me, than then, when they did hatefully against God.
Therefore it is my will that men go forth peacefully, and do no deeds
of war-work.’” (Chapter 217.)
PaGE 63. Lord, thy men have down-trodden My corn-feld.
“ Whenas the king sought down from the fell, there was there in their
way a homestead called Sula, in the upper dwelling of the Verdale folk.
Now when they drew down towards the homestead, there were acres
lying beside the way, and the king bade his men fare quietly, and not
to spoil for the bonder what was his own. And this men did well, while
the king was anigh; but the companies that came after gave no heed
to this, and men so overran the acre that it was all laid down to earth.
The bonder who dwelt there was called Thorgeir Fleck. He had two
sons well grown toward manhood. Thorgeir gave to the king a right
good welcome, and to his men withal, and o!fered him all the cheer that
he had stuff to. The king took this in good part, and asked Thorgeir
for tidings, what was toward in the land, or whether any gathering
would be made against him. Thorgeir said that a great host had been
drawn together there in Thrandheim, and that landed-men had come
there both from the south of the land, and from the north from Halo-
galand ; ‘but I wot not,’ says he, ‘whether they be minded to set that
host against thee, or otherwhere.’ Then he made plaint to the king of
his scathe, and of the unquiet of the king’s men, in that they had beaten
down and trodden all his acres. The king said it was ill hap that harm
had been done to him. Thereafter the king rode to where the acre had
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