I can see the crooked irons Fastened round the legs of Kugi; Stray thou canst not in thy fetters, Old man! fond of making night trips; Now you must not hold night meetings, And must keep the peace established; Kugi! all your tricks are hinder’d, And your oaths you must keep sacred. The Earl pardoned them all, and they renewed their compact. CHAPTER LXVII OF EARL ROGNVALD AND PAUL. AFTER Earl Rögnvald’s arrival in the Orkneys, and when many had submitted to him, Earl Paul held a meeting in Hrossey with his men for consultation. The Earl asked their opinion of what was to be done in these difficulties. There were considerable differences of opinion. Some advised Earl Paul to share his dominions with Earl Rögnvald. But most of the more powerful men and Bœndr wished to buy Rögnvald away with money, and offered their means for that purpose. Others were for fighting, as they said that this had been the successful way before. Earl Rögnvald had spies at the meeting, and when they came to him, the Earl asked a certain skald, who had been there, for news. He sang:— Of our foes I gain’d this knowledge That o’er secrets they are brooding. From the meeting of the Bœndr Has the great chief heard the tidings That among the powerful feeders Of the wolves, the wish prevails that All your ships should leave the islands And that Paul should rule the land here. Then Earl Rögnvald sent men to see the Bishop, and asked for his intervention. He also sent for Thorstein, Ragna’s son, and Thorstein, Hávard’s son, in Sandey, and requested them to try to make peace between him and his kinsman. The Bishop procured a fortnight’s truce, in order that they might endeavour to establish a more lasting peace. Then the islands were allocated that should maintain each of them in the meantime.[341] Earl Rögnvald went to Hrossey (Mainland), and Earl Paul to Hrólfsey (Rousay). At this time it happened that the kinsmen Swein, Asleif’s son, Jón Væng of Uppland in Háey, and Rikgard of Brekkur in Stiórnsey (Stronsay), attacked Thorkel Flettir on the estate which had belonged to Valthióf, and burnt him in the house, with nine others. After that they went to Earl Rögnvald, and told him that they would go to Earl Paul with the whole body of their kinsmen, if he would not receive them; but he did not turn them away. As soon as Haflidi, Thorkel’s son, heard of his father’s burning, he went to Earl Paul, who received him well.