243. OF KALF ARNASON'S BROTHERS.

Kalf Arnason searched for his brothers who had fallen, and found

Thorberg and Fin. It is related that Fin 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

Fin and Thorberg to be carried away from the field. When their wounds

were examined they were found not to be deadly, and they had fallen 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 bonde-army, having their homes in the

neighbourhood, went off also, excepting those who had friends or

relations 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 bonde-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 longing for their homes.

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