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 64 CHRONICLE OF THE saga vii. many of his ship's crew fell, and a great many of them were wounded. Thorgaut took all their goods, and King Olaf s, and he and his comrades divided the booty among them equally ; but he said the Swedish kino- ought to have the precious articles of King Olaf, as these, he said, should be considered as part of the scatt due to him from Norway. Thereafter Thorgaut proceeded east to Sweden. These tidings were soon known ; and as Ey vind Urarhorn came soon after to Oland, he heard the news, and sailed east after Thor- gaut and his troop, and overtook them among the Swedish isles on the coast, and gave battle. There Thorgaut and the most of his men were killed, and the rest sprang overboard. Eyvind took all the goods, and all the costly articles of King Olaf which they had captured from Gudleif, and went with these back to Norway in autumn, and delivered to King Olaf his precious wares. The king thanked him in the most friendly way for his proceeding, and promised him anew his favour and friendship. At this time Olaf had been three years king over Norway. Chapter The same summer King Olaf ordered a levy, and Meeting of went out eastwards to the Gotha river, where he lay and E £ ?ri af g reat P art °f the summer. Messages were passing Rognvaid. between King Olaf, Earl Rognvald, and the earl's wife, Ingeborg, the daughter of Tryggve. She was very zealous about giving King Olaf of Norway every kind of help, and made it a matter of her deepest interest. For this there were two causes. She had a great friendship for King Olaf; and also she could never forget that the Swedish king had been one at the death of her brother, Olaf Tryggvesson; and also that he, on that account only, had any pretence to rule over Norway. The earl, by her persuasion, turned much towards friendship with King Olaf; and it pro- ceeded so far that the earl and the king appointed a meeting, and met at the Gotha river. They talked