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 42 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA IX. along with his father. The king's men then ran up and placed themselves before the door, and the bonders lost courage, having no leader. They urged each other on, indeed, and said it was a shame they should not avenge their chief; but it came to nothing with their attack. The king went out to his men, arrayed them in battle order, and set up his standard ; but the bonders did not venture to assault. Then the king went with all his men on board of his ships, rowed down the river, and then took his way out of the fiord. When Einar's wife Bergliot, who was in the house which Einar had possessed in the town, heard of Einar's fall, she went immediately to the king's house where the bonders' army was, and urged them to the attack ; but at the same moment the king was rowing out of the river. Then said Bergliot, " Now we want here my relation Hakon Ivarsson : Einar's murderer would not be rowing out of the river if Ivar stood here on the river-bank." Then Bergliot adorned Einar's and Endrid's corpses, and buried them in Olaf 's church, beside King Magnus Olafsson's burial-place. After Einar's murder, the king was so much disliked for that deed, that there Avas nothing that prevented the lendermen and bonders from attacking the king, and giving him battle, but the want of some leader to raise the banner in the bonder army. Einn Arneson dwelt at Austratt in Yrjar, and was King Harald's lenderman there. Finn was married to Bergliot, a daughter of Halfdan, Avho was a son of Sigurd Syr, and brother of Olaf the Saint and of King Harald. Thora, King Harald's wife, was Finn Arne- son's brother's daughter ; and Finn and all his bro- thers were the kinsf's dearest friends. Finn Arneson ClfAPTER XLVI. Of King Ilarald and Finn Arneson. had been the West for 'to some summers on a vikino: cruise in sea; and Finn, Guttorm Gunhildsson, and Hakon Ivarsson had all been tosfether on that cruise.