"She is here," said the king.
Then Earl Fin broke out with the ugly expressions which since have been
preserved, as a proof that he was so mad with rage that he could not
govern his tongue:--
"No wonder thou hast bit so strongly, if the mare was with thee."
Earl Fin got life and quarter and the king kept him a while about him.
But Fin was rather melancholy and obstinate in conversation; and King
Harald said, "I see, Fin, that thou dost not live willingly in company
with me and thy relations; now I will give thee leave to go to thy
friend King Svein."
The earl said, "I accept of the offer willingly, and the more gratefully
the sooner I get away from hence."
The king afterwards let Earl Fin be landed and the traders going to
Halland received him well. King Harald sailed from thence to Norway with
his fleet; and went first to Oslo, where he gave all his people leave to
go home who wished to do so.