318 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA XVI. they reached Hordaland, with the intention of sailing to Bergen, and came opposite the town, Nicolas and his men rowed out against them, with more men and larger ships than they had. Sigurd and Marcus saw no other way of escaping but to row away south- wards. Some of them went out to sea, others got south to Sund, and some got into the Fiords. Marcus, and some people with him, sprang upon an isle called Skarpa. Nicolas and his men took their ships, gave John Halkelsson and a few others quarter, but killed the most of them they could get hold of. Some days after Eindrid Heidafyla found Sigurd and Marcus, and they were brought to Bergen. Sigurd was beheaded outside of Gravdal, and Marcus and another man were hanged at Hruarfsnes. This took place on Michaelmas day, and the band which had followed them was dis- persed. Chapter Fredcrik Kciua and Biorne the Bad, Onund Si- XIX Of Eriiiig munsson and Arnolf Skarpa, had rowed out to sea and the with somc ships, and sailed outside alonsr the land to people or -L ' O Rising the east. Wheresoever they came to the land they plundered, and killed Erling's friends. Now when Erling heard that Sigurd and Marcus were killed, he gave leave to the lendermen and people of the levy to return home ; but he himself, with his men, set his course eastward across the Folde fiord ^, for he heard of Marcus's men there. Erling sailed to Konghelle, where he remained the autumn ; and in the first week of winter Erling went out to the island Hising with his men, and called the bonders to a Thing. When the Hising people came to the Thing, Erling laid his law-suit against them for having joined the bands of Sigurd and Marcus, and having raised men against him. Ozur was the name of one of the greatest of the bonders on the island, and he answered Erling on
- Folde fiord was the mouth of Christiania fiord.
