up a band against us.  I shall be well pleased for you to put them to any penalty you like.” [Sidenote:  The deaths of Stein and his brother] Then Olaf’s sons swiftly turn to journeying, and went on board a ferry-boat that Olaf owned, being seven of them together, and rowed out down Hvamsfirth, pushing on their journey at their lustiest.  They had but little wind, but fair what there was, and they rowed with the sail until they came under Scoreisle, where they tarried for some while and asked about the journeyings of men thereabouts.  A little while after they saw a ship coming from the west across the firth, and soon they saw who the men were, for there were the sons of Thorhalla, and Halldor and his 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.

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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 built in the Dales. [Sidenote:  Olaf protects Bolli] But when Olaf heard that Thorstein had bestirred him swiftly and raised up a band of great many men, and that the Willowdale men had done likewise, he had men gathered together throughout all the Dales, and a great multitude they were.  The whole of this band Olaf sent to Laugar, with this order:  “It is my will that you guard Bolli if he stand in need thereof, and do it no less faithfully than if you were following me; for my mind misgives me that the men from beyond this countryside, whom, coming soon, we shall be having on our hands, will deem that they have somewhat of a loss to make up with Bolli.  And when he had put the matter in order in this manner, Thorstein, with his following, and also the Willowdale