Frode, now triumphant, wished to renew peace among all nations, that he might ensure each man’s property from the inroads of thieves and now ensure peace to his realms after war.  So he hung one bracelet on a crag which is called Frode’s Rock, and another in the district of Wik, after he had addressed the assembled Norwegians; threatening that these necklaces should serve to test the honesty which he had decreed, and threatening that if they were filched punishment should fall on all the governors of the district.  And thus, sorely imperilling the officers, there was the gold unguarded, hanging up full in the parting of the roads, and the booty, so easy to plunder, a temptation to all covetous spirits. (a) Frode also enacted that seafarers should freely use oars wherever they found them; while to those who wished to cross a river he granted free use of the horse which they found nearest to the ford.  He decreed that they must dismount from this horse when its fore feet only touched land and its hind feet were still washed by the waters.  For he thought that services such as these should rather be accounted kindness than wrongdoing.  Moreover, he ordained that whosoever durst try and make further use of the horse after he had crossed the river should be condemned to death. (b) He also ordered that no man should hold his house or his coffer under lock and key, or should keep anything guarded by bolts, promising that all losses should be made good threefold.  Also, he appointed that it was lawful to claim as much of another man’s food for provision as would suffice for a single supper.  If anyone exceeded this measure in his takings, he was to be held guilty of theft.  Now, a thief (so he enacted) was to be hung up with a sword passed through his sinews, with a wolf fastened by his side, so that the wicked man might look like the savage beast, both being punished alike.  He also had the same penalty extended to accomplices in thefts.  Here he passed seven most happy years of peace, begetting a son Alf and a daughter Eyfura.

It chanced that in these days Arngrim, a champion of Sweden, who had challenged, attacked, and slain Skalk the Skanian because he had once robbed him of a vessel, came to Frode.  Elated beyond measure with his deed, he ventured to sue for Frode’s daughter; but, finding the king deaf to him, he asked Erik, who was ruling Sweden, to help him.  Erik advised him to win Frode’s goodwill by some illustrious service, and to fight against Egther, the King of Permland, and Thengil, the King of Finmark, since they alone seemed to repudiate the Danish rule, while all men else submitted.  Without delay he led his army to that country.  Now, the Finns are the uttermost peoples of the North, who have taken a portion of the world that is barely habitable to till and dwell in.  They are very keen spearmen, and no nation has a readier skill in throwing the javelin.  They fight with large, broad arrows; they are addicted to the study of spells; they are