KINGS OF NORWAY. 37 upon the twelve bonders went back to their people, SAGA VIT - and told the issue of their errand, and considered with the people what they should resolve upon. Although they discussed the matter backwards and forwards for a while, they preferred at last to submit to the king; and it was confirmed by the oath of the bon- ders. The king now proceeded on his journey, and the bonders made feasts for him. The king then proceeded to the sea-coast, and got ships ; and among others he got a long-ship of twenty benches of rowers from Gunnar of Gelmin ; another ship of twenty benches he got from Lodin of Viggia ; and three ships of twenty benches from the farm of Aungrar in the Ness, which farm Earl Hakon had possessed, but a steward managed it for him, by name Bard White. The king had besides four or five boats; and with these vessels he went in all haste into the fiord of Drontheim. Earl Swend was at that time far up in the Dron- Ckafter. V AT "Y T "Y theim fiord at Steenkiar*, which at that time was a 0f Earl * merchant town, and was there preparing for the Yule Swend 'f proceed- festival. When Einar Tambarskelver heard that the ine S . Orkedal people had .submitted to King Olaf, he sent men to Earl Swend to bring him the tidings. They went first to Nidaros, and took a rowing-boat which belonged to Einar, with which they went out into the fiord, and came one day late in the evening to Steen- kiar, where they brought to the earl the news about all King Olaf 's proceedings. The earl owned a long- ship, which was lying afloat and rigged just outside the town ; and immediately, in the evening, he ordered all his moveable goods, his people's clothes, and also meat and drink, as much as the vessel could carry, to be put on board, rowed immediately out in the
- Steenkiar is still a village at the bottom of the Drontheim fiord,
at the mouth of the large river running into it from the great lake the Snaasen Vand. No remains of the old town are to be seen. D 3
