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wound grew up so speedily that it did not require to be 

 bound up. This circumstance was testified by Thorir 

 himself when King Olafs holiness came to be generally 

 known among the people ; and Thorir Hund was among 

 the first of the king's powerful opponents who endea- 

 voured to spread abroad the king's sanctity. 



'Kalf Arnason searched for his brothers who had fallen, 

 and found Thorberg and Finn. It is related that Finn 

 threw his dagger at him, and wanted to kill him, giving 

 him hard words, and calling him a faithless villain, and 

 a traitor to his king. Kalf did not regard it, but ordered 

 Finn and Thorberg to be carried away from the field. 

 When their wounds were examined they were found not 

 to be deadly ; they had fallen in part from fatigue, and 

 under the weight of their weapons. Thereafter Kalf 

 tried to bring his brothers down to a ship, and went 

 himself with them. As soon as he was gone the whole 

 bonder-army, having their homes in the neighbourhood 

 went off also, excepting those who had friends or rela- 

 tions to look after, or the bodies of the slain to take 

 care of. The wounded were taken home to the farms, 

 so that every house was full of them ; and tents were 

 erected over some. But wonderful as was the number 

 collected in the bonder-army, no less wonderful was the 

 haste with which this vast body was dispersed when it 

 was once free ; and the cause of this was, that the most 

 of the people gathered together from the country places 

 were longino; for their homes.' 



This battle of Stiklestad was fought on July 29, 

 1030. 



