Fin Arnason proceeded to the town and had with him his house-servants,
nearly eighty men. When he came into the town he held a Thing with the
town's people. Fin spoke long and ably at the Thing; and told the town's
people, and bondes, above all things not to have a hatred against their
king, or to drive him away. He reminded them of how much evil they had
suffered by acting thus against King Olaf the Saint; and added, that
the king was willing to pay penalty for this murder, according to the
judgment of understanding and good men. The effect of Fin's speech was
that the bondes promised to wait quietly until the messengers came back
whom Bergliot had sent to the Uplands to her relative, Hakon Ivarson.
Fin then went out to Orkadal with the men who had accompanied him to
the town. From thence he went up to Dovrefield, and eastwards over the
mountains. He went first to his son-in-law, Earl Orm, who was married to
Sigrid, Fin's daughter, and told him his business.