124 DANIEL Bruun. 
with great honour, when the bells were rung to receive him. They thought 
it a great shame uttering their anger about it. 
Ketil said: "Do not take it too much to heart, as before evening 
they may be funeral bells.” 
Then Einar came with his attendants; they sat down on the slope 
of a hill. Sokki laid out different chattels for valuation, which were 
appointed as damages. 
Ketil said: “I desire that Hermund and I should value the goods.” 
Sokki agreed. 
Simon, Össur’s relation, went about with a vexatious air, whilst 
the valuation of the chattels went on. Then an old armour-plating was 
brought forth. Simon then said: “It is an infamous bidding, for such 
a man as Ossur to give.” — He threw the armour away, out onto the 
plain, and went towards them who sat on the slope. When the Green- 
landers saw that, they sprang up and went down the hill towards Simon 
— Kolbein then went up alone, past round to the rear of them attacking 
them from there. He gave Einar a blow between the shoulders, and 
Einar’s axe hit Simon’s head at the same time, so that they both receiv- 
ed mortal wounds. Einar said as he fell: “Such could be expected.” 
Now Thord, Einar’s foster-brother, ran to Kolbein so as to cut him 
down, but Kolbein turned quickly and stuck the sharp point of the 
axe’s blade into his throat so that he died at once. Now a hard fight 
set in, whilst the bishop sat with Einar, who died on his lap. A man 
called Steingrim now called upon the contenders to stop fighting, trying 
with a few men to separate them; but both parties were so furious that 
Steingrim was bored through by a sword in the heat of the battle. 
Einar died upon the slope by the Greenlander’s tent-booth. Now 
the people had heavy wounds, but Kolbein and his people reached the 
boats taking three of their fallen men with them.” 
They then went across Eimarsfiord to Skialgsbudir. Here the 
tradıng-ships lay which were now quickly rigged. 
Sokki now meditated on a universal attack on the ships and booths, 
but was persuaded, by a highly esteemed man in land called Hall on 
Solarfiöll, to give up that project and once more offer the strangers 
reconciliation. 
A meeting was fixed under the preliminary assumption, that the 
strangers should leave the country as soon as possible and in any case 
before the end of a month — to be reckoned from Hall’s visit to the 
ships. — 
In the meantime Ketil took a trip with 30 men up into the settle- 
ment so as to procure provisions for the journey. They were so for- 
tunate as to find such preserved in a big earth-house or cellar there; 
and they now took what they had need of. 
At the peace-meeting Hall renounced, after mutual agreement, 
an award, and with that the matter ended. 
