The following spring (A.D. 1036) the kings on both sides ordered out a
levy, and the news was that they would have a battle at the Gaut river;
but when the two armies approached each other, the lendermen in the one
army sent messengers to their connections and friends in the other;
and it came to a proposal for a reconciliation between the two kings,
especially as, from both kings being but young and childish, some
powerful men, who had been chosen in each of the countries for that
purpose, had the rule of the country on their account. It thus was
brought about that there was a friendly meeting between the kings,
and in this meeting a peace was proposed; and the peace was to be a
brotherly union under oath to keep the peace towards each other to the
end of their lives; and if one of them should die without leaving a son,
the longest liver should succeed to the whole land and people. Twelve
of the principal men in each kingdom swore to the kings that this treaty
should be observed, so long as any one of them was in life. Then the
kings separated, and each returned home to his kingdom; and the treaty
was kept as long as both lived.