KINGS OF NORWAY. QB The king: ^' Wilt thou, then, if thy relation Mag- saga ix. nus gives thee quarter ? " Magnus, King HaralcVs son, was then steering the ship. The earl replies, Can the whelp rule over life and quarter ? " The king laughed, as if he found amusement in vexing him. — "Wilt thou accept thy life, then, from thy she-relation Thora ? " The earl : "Is she here ? " " She is here," said the king. Then Earl Finn broke out with the ugly expres- sions which since have been preserved, as a proof that he was so mad with rage that he could not govern his tongue : — " No wonder thou hast bit so strongly, if the mare was with thee." Earl Finn got life and quarter, and the king kept him a while about him. But Finn was rather melan- choly, and obstinate in conversation ; and King Harald said, " I see, Finn, that thou dost not live willingly in company with me and thy relations ; now I will give thee leave to go to thy friend King Swend." The earl said, " I accept of the offer willingly, and the more gratefully the sooner I get away from hence." The king afterwards let Earl Finn be landed, and the traders going to Halland received him well. King Harald sailed from thence to Norwav with his fleet ; and went first to Opslo, where he gave all his people leave to go home who wished to do so. Kino: Swend, it is told, sat in Denmark all that Chapter . . . LXIX winter, and had his kingdom as formerly. In mnter of King* he sent men north to Halland for Karl the bonder ^^e"^- and his wife. When Karl came the king called him to him, and asked him if he knew him, or thought he had ever seen him before. Karl replies, " I know thee, sire, and knew thee VOL. III. F
