122 DANIEL BRUUN. 
The bishop said to that: 
“Such actions are not right, but this one can be excused.” 
Brand begged that the body might be washed and buried in a christian 
manner. The bishop answered, that he would give them time to do so. 
In the meantime they sat at table; but they did not hurry, and the 
bishop would not let them chant over the body before Einar desired 
it to be done, saying that it would be more becoming if it were done 
properly. The bishop answered, in the meantime, that he in reallity 
thought it best that the body was not buried by the church. “But as 
thou desirest it, he shall be permitted to rest near this church, near 
which no priest has a dwelling.” 
The bishop did not call the priest to chant over the body, before 
it was attired in its grave-clothes. Then Einar said: 
“Here a trick, has been played, most likely thy scheme; now we 
have to deal with insolent opponents and I suspect that great disasters 
soon will arise between us.” 
The bishop answered, that he hoped that they would repulse the 
insolence, and offer honourable recompense and awards in this case, if 
it was not brought too violenty forward.” 
A certain Simon, Ossur’s relative was the proper revenger, but he 
seems to have lacked more sagacity and activity than strength. 
Ketil Kalfsson was the most prominent man in the crew on Össur’s 
ship, over which he now took command, since he began immediately 
to equip it for the return journey. He knew the laws of Greenland well, 
and let Simon carry through the lawsuit in this matter of man-slaughter. 
At the assize — probably the land assize at Gardar — which most 
likely was held in the month of June, he was accompanied by Kolbein 
Thorliotsson and some of his people, as it had been agreed upon; but 
the trading ships with the rest of the men could not come so quickly 
to the eastern settlement as they were hindered by a contrary wind. 
At the assize Einar Sokkisson by force disturbed the judicial pro- 
ceedings, so that the strangers could not state their lawsuit. Through 
the intercession of the old highly esteemed Sokki Thorisson a new 
meeting of reconciliation was however appointed: 
“At midsummer according to agreement, a reconciliation was to 
be contracted at Eid. Then the merchants came from the west and 
anchored by a headland [perhaps at the entrance to the east fiord] where 
they met all the others, and now a joint assignation was held. On this 
occasion Kolbein said that formerly it would not have been so near 
a reconciliation, if they had all been collected; “but my advice is that 
we all go to this meeting fully equipped.” — 
It took place, and they left, hiding themselves in a remote creek 
not far from the bishop’s-see. Now it happened, that high mass was 
sung at the bishop-see, at the same time as Einar Sokkisson arrived 
there. When the merchants heard it they said, that Einar was met 
