Thorolf then answered angrily:

’So far am I from thinking you legitimate heirs that I am told your mother was taken by force, and
carried home as a captive.’

After that they left talking altogether.

Chapter 10 - Thorolf in Finmark.
In the winter Thorolf took his way up to the fells with a large force of not less than ninety men,
whereas before it had been the wont of the king’s stewards to have thirty men, and sometimes fewer.
He took with him plenty of wares for trading. At once he appointed a meeting with the Finns, took of
them the tribute, and held a fair with them. All was managed with goodwill and friendship, though not
without fear on the Finns’ side. Far and wide about Finmark did he travel; but when he reached the
fells eastward, he heard that the Kylfings were come from the east, and were there for trading with the
Finns, but in some places for plunder also. Thorolf set Finns to spy out the movements of the Kylfings,
and he followed after to search for them, and came upon thirty men in one den, all of whom he slew,
letting none escape. Afterwards he found together fifteen or twenty. In all they slew near upon a
hundred, and took immense booty, and returned in the spring after doing this.

Thorolf then went to his estates at Sandness, and remained there through the spring. He had a long-
ship built, large, and with a dragon’s head, fitted out in the best style; this he took with him from the
north. Thorolf gathered great stores of what there was in Halogaland, employing his men after the
herrings and in other fishing; seal-hunting there was too in abundance, and egg-gathering, and all such
provision he had brought to him. Never had he fewer freedmen about his home than a hundred; he was
open-handed and liberal, and readily made friends with the great, and with all that were near him. A
mighty man he became, and he bestowed much care on his ships, equipment, and weapons.

Chapter 11 - The king feasts with Thorolf.
King Harold went that summer to Halogaland, and banquets were made ready against his coming, both
where his estates were, and also by barons and powerful landowners. Thorolf prepared a banquet for
the king at great cost; it was fixed for when the king should come there. To this he bade a numerous
company, the best men that could be found. The king had about three hundred men with him when he
came to the banquet, but Thorolf had five hundred present. Thorolf had caused a large granary to be
fitted up where the drinking should be, for there was no hall large enough to contain all that multitude.
And all around the building shields were hung.

The king sate in the high seat; but when the foremost bench was filled, then the king looked round,
and he turned red, but spoke not, and men thought they could see he was angry. The banquet was
magnificent, and all the viands of the best. The king, however, was gloomy; he remained there three
nights, as had been intended. On the day when the king was to leave Thorolf went to him, and offered
that they should go together down to the strand. The king did so, and there, moored off the land,
floated that dragon-ship which Thorolf had had built, with tent and tackling complete. Thorolf gave
the ship to the king, and prayed the king to believe that he had gathered such numbers for this end, to
show the king honour, and not to enter into rivalry with him. The king took Thorolf’s words well, and
then became merry and cheerful. Many added their good word, saying (as was true) that the banquet
was most splendid, and the farewell escort magnificent, and that the king gained much strength by
such men. Then they parted with much affection.