and the people throughout all the land would listen to nothing else than that Olaf Tryggvesson should be king. Then Olaf went round the whole country, and brought it under his rule, and all the people of Norway gave in their submission; and also the chiefs in the Uplands and in Yiken, who before had held their lands as fiefs from the Danish king, now became King Olaf's men, and held their lands from him. He went thus through the whole country during the first winter and the following summer. Earl Eric, the son of Earl Hakon, his brother Swend, and their friends and relations, fled out of the country, and went east to Sweden to King Olaf the Swede, who gave them a good reception. So says Thord Kolbeinsson:—
"O thou whom bad men drove away,
After the bonders, by foul play,
Took Hakon's life! Fate will pursue
These bloody wolves, and make them rue.
When the host came from out the West,
Like some tall stately war-ship's mast,
I saw the son of Tryggve stand,
Surveying proud his native land."
And again,—
"Eric has more upon his mind,
Against the new Norse king designed,
Than by his Words he seems to show—
And truly it may well he so.
Stubborn and stiff are Drontheim men,
But Drontheim's earl may come again;
In Swedish land he knows no rest—
Fierce wrath is gathering in his breast."
Chapter LVIII.
Lodin's marriage.
Lodin was the name of a man from Viken who was rich and of good family. He went often on merchant voyages, and sometimes on viking cruises. It happened one summer that he went on a merchant voyage with much merchandise in a ship of his own. He directed his course first to Esthonia, and was there at a market in summer. To the place at which the market was held many merchant goods were brought, and also many thralls or slaves for sale.
