kinsmen of mine, would go against thy will with all the less stubbornness the better beholden I am under your power.”  The king said, “This is chosen both wisely and as beseems a great man.”  The king gave Kjartan a whole set of new clothes, all cut out of scarlet cloth, and they suited him well; for people said that King Olaf and Kjartan were of an even height when they went under measure.  King Olaf sent the court priest, named Thangbrand, to Iceland.  He brought his ship to Swanfirth, and stayed with Side-Hall all the winter at Wash-river, and set forth the faith to people both with fair words and harsh punishments.  Thangbrand slew two men who went most against him.  Hall received the faith in the spring, and was baptized on the Saturday before Easter, with all his household; then Gizor the White let himself be baptized, so did Hjalti Skeggjason and many other chiefs, though there were many more who spoke against it; and then dealings between heathen men and Christians became scarcely free of danger. [Sidenote:  Thangbrand returns from Iceland] Sundry chiefs even took counsel together to slay Thangbrand, as well as such men who should stand up for him.  Because of this turmoil Thangbrand ran away to Norway, and came to meet King Olaf, and told him the tidings of what had befallen in his journey, and said he thought Christianity would never thrive in Iceland.  The king was very wroth at this, and said that many Icelanders would rue the day unless they came round to him.  That summer Hjalti Skeggjason was made an outlaw at the Thing for blaspheming the gods.  Runolf Ulfson, who lived in Dale, under Isles’-fells, the greatest of chieftains, upheld the lawsuit against him.  That summer Gizor left Iceland and Hjalti with him, and they came to Norway, and went forthwith to find King Olaf.  The king gave them a good welcome, and said they had taken a wise counsel; he bade them stay with him, and that offer they took with thanks.  Sverling, son of Runolf of Dale, had been in Norway that winter, and was bound for Iceland in the summer.  His ship was floating beside the landing stage all ready, only waiting for a wind.  The king forbade him to go away, and said that no ships should go to Iceland that summer.  Sverling went to the king and pleaded his case, and begged leave to go, and said it mattered a great deal to him, that they should not have to unship their cargo again.  The king spake, and then he was wroth:  “It is well for the son of a sacrificer to be where he likes it worst.”  So Sverling went no whither.  That winter nothing to tell of befell.  The next summer the king sent Gizor and Hjalti Skeggjason to Iceland to preach the faith anew, and kept four men back as hostages Kjartan Olafson, Halldor, the son of Gudmund the Mighty, Kolbein, son of Thord the priest of Frey, and Sverling, son of Runolf of Dale. [Sidenote:  Of Ingibjorg the king’s sister] Bolli made up his mind to journey with Gizor and Hjalti, and went to Kjartan, his kinsman, and said, “I am now