When the farmers and people about heard of the disturbances they all came out to help the jarl.  Onund had a large force with him, and there was a great battle in which many a good farmer and many a follower of the jarl were slain.  The brothers returned to Onund and reported what had occurred with the jarl.  Onund said it was a pity they had not killed him.  It would, he said, have been something to make up for the losses which he had suffered from King Harald.  They said the disgrace was far worse for the jarl as it was, and they went off to Surnadal to Eirik Beery, a Landman there, who took them all in for the winter.  At Yule-tide they had a great drinking bout with a man named Hallsteinn, nicknamed Stallion.  Eirik opened the feast and entertained them generously.  Then it was Hallsteinn’s turn, and they began to quarrel.  Hallsteinn struck Eirik with a deer’s horn, for which Eirik got no revenge, but had to go home with it, to the great annoyance of Ondott’s sons.  A little later Asgrim went to Hallsteinn’s house and gave him a severe wound.  All the people who were present started up and attacked Asgrim.  He defended himself vigorously and escaped in the dark, leaving them under the belief that they had killed him.  Onund and Asmund, on hearing that Asgrim had been killed, were at a loss what they could do in the matter.  Eirik’s advice was that they should betake themselves to Iceland, for it would never do for them to remain in the land where the king could get at them.  This they determined to do.  Each of them had his own ship and they made ready for the voyage to Iceland.  Hallsteinn was laid low with his wound and died before Onund sailed with his party.  Kolbeinn, the man who was mentioned before, went in the ship with Onund.

CHAPTER VIII

ONUND AND ASMUND SAIL TO ICELAND

Onund and Asmund set sail directly when they were ready and their ships kept together.  Onund said: 

“Hallvard and I were aforetime deemed worthy in storm of swords to bear us.  With one foot now I step on the ship towards Iceland.  The poet’s day is o’er.”

They had a rough passage with cross winds, mostly from the south, so that they drifted away to the north.  They made Iceland right in the North, at Langanes, where they regained their reckonings.  The ships were near enough to each other for them to speak together.  Asmund said they had better make for Eyjafjord, and this was agreed to.  They kept under the land and heavy weather set in from the south-east.  Just as Onund was tacking, the yard was carried away; they lowered the sail and were driven out to sea.  Asmund got under the lee of Hrisey, where he waited until a fair wind set in which took him up to Eyjafjord.  Helgi the Lean gave him the whole of Kraeklingahlid, and he lived at South-Glera.  A few years later his brother Asgrim came to Iceland and took up his residence at North-Glera.  His son was Ellidagrim the father of Asgrim.