Onund and Asmund heard thereof and supposed him dead, but deemed they might do nought.  Eric counselled them to make for Iceland, and said that would be of no avail to abide there in the land (i.e. in Norway), as soon as the king should bring matters about to his liking.  So this they did, and made them ready for Iceland and had each one ship.  Hallstein lay wounded, and died before Onund and his folk sailed.  Kolbein withal, who is afore mentioned, went abroad with Onund.

CHAP.  VIII.

Now Onund and Asmund sailed into the sea when they were ready, and held company together; then sang Onund this stave—­

  “Meet was I in days agone
  For storm, wherein the Sweeping One,
  Midst rain of swords, and the darts’ breath,
  Blew o’er all a gale of death. 
  Now a maimed, one-footed man
  On rollers’ steed through waters wan
  Out to Iceland must I go;
  Ah, the skald is sinking low.”

They had a hard voyage of it and much of baffling gales from the south, and drove north into the main; but they made Iceland, and were by then come to the north off Longness when they found where they were:  so little space there was betwixt them that they spake together; and Asmund said that they had best sail to Islefirth, and thereto they both agreed; then they beat up toward the land, and a south-east wind sprang up; but when Onund and his folk laid the ship close to the wind, the yard was sprung; then they took in sail, and therewith were driven off to sea; but Asmund got under the lee of Brakeisle, and there lay till a fair wind brought him into Islefirth; Helgi the Lean gave him all Kraeklings’ lithe, and he dwelt at South Glass-river; Asgrim his brother came out some winters later and abode at North Glass-river; he was the father of Ellida-Grim, the father of Asgrim Ellida-Grimson.

CHAP.  IX.

Now it is to be told of Onund Treefoot that he drave out to sea for certain days, but at last the wind got round to the north, and they sailed for land:  then those knew who had been there before that they had come west off the Skagi; then they sailed into Strand-Bay, and near to the South-Strands, and there rowed toward them six men in a ten-oared boat, who hailed the big ship, and asked who was their captain; Onund named himself, and asked whence they came; they said they were house-carles of Thorvald, from Drangar; Onund asked if all land through the Strands had been settled; they said there was little unsettled in the inner Strands, and none north thereof.  Then Onund asked his shipmates, whether they would make for the west country, or take such as they had been told of; they chose to view the land first.  So they sailed in up the bay, and brought to in a creek off Arness, then put forth a boat and rowed to land.  There dwelt a rich man, Eric Snare, who had taken land betwixt Ingolfs-firth, and Ufoera in Fishless; but when Eric