the unsullied sun around the umpire of wars.

Some nights after King Haco had arrived at Herlover, Ronald and Erling
sailed out of the bay with their squadron. Ronald was separated from
the rest at sea, and made for the Orkneys with some of the ships. But,
Erling, and Andrew, and Halvard steered south before Shetland, and so
to the west of Tharey-fiord;[31] and they saw no land; except
Sulna-stapa[32] west of the Orkneys. Afterwards they sailed in to
Scotland under Dyrness.[33] They went up into the country and
destroyed a castle, but the garrison had fled. They burned more than
twenty hamlets. Next they steered for the Hebrides, and found there
Magnus King of Man.

Three nights before the Selian vigils[34] King Haco set sail for the
German sea with all his fleet. He had now been King of Norway six and
forty winters.[35] He had a favourable breeze; the weather was fair
and the armament beautiful to behold, as Sturlas relates.

4.

The Abyss returned the flaming gleam of war, darted from the
bright glittering concave shields of the Goddesses of
battle.[36] This voyage, by the bands of the Troubler of
peace, through the sea that streams around the world, was
unwelcome to the foe--they dreaded the exactor of rings.[37]

King Haco had a company, particularly selected for his own ship. There
were on the quarter-deck Thorlife abbot of Holm,[38] Sir Askatin,[39]
four priests chaplains to the King, Andrew of Thissisey, Aslac Guss
the King's master of the Horse, Andrew Hawardson, Guthorm Gillason and