That same summer Hjallti Skeggi's son was outlawed at the Thing
for blasphemy against the Gods.
Thangbrand told King Olaf of all the mischief that the Icelanders
had done to him, and said that they were such sorcerers there
that the earth burst asunder under his horse and swallowed up the
horse.
Then King Olaf was so wroth that he made them seize all the men
from Iceland and set them in dungeons, and meant to slay them.
Then they, Gizur the White and Hjallti, came up and offered to
lay themselves in pledge for those men, and fare out to Iceland
and preach the faith. The king took this well, and they got them
all set free again.
Then Gizur and Hjallti busked their ship for Iceland, and were
soon "boun." They made the land at Eyrar when ten weeks of
summer had passed; they got them horses at once, but left other
men to strip their ship. Then they ride with thirty men to the
Thing, and sent word to the Christian men that they must be ready
to stand by them.
Hjallti stayed behind at Reydarmull, for he had heard that he had
been made an outlaw for blasphemy, but when they came to the
"Boiling Kettle" (1) down below the brink of the Rift (2), there
came Hjallti after them, and said he would not let the heathen
men see that he was afraid of them.
Then many Christian men rode to meet them, and they ride in
battle array to the Thing. The heathen men had drawn up their
men in array to meet them, and it was a near thing that the whole
body of the Thing had come to blows, but still it did not go so
far.