Now the brothers went both to their ship.  Bolli took a great deal of money abroad with him.  They now arrayed the ship, and when everything was ready they put out to sea.  The winds did not speed them fast, and they were a long time out at sea, but got to Norway in the autumn, and made Thrandheim in the north.  Olaf, the king, was in the east part of the land, in the Wick, where he had made ingatherings for a stay through the winter. [Sidenote:  They come to Norway] And when the brothers heard that the king would not come north to Thrandheim that autumn, Thorleik said he would go east along the land to meet King Olaf.  Bolli said, “I have little wish to drift about between market towns in autumn days; to me that is too much of worry and restraint.  I will rather stay for the winter in this town.  I am told the king will come north in the spring, and if he does not then I shall not set my face against our going to meet him.”  Bolli has his way in the matter, and they put up their ship and got their winter quarters.  It was soon seen that Bolli was a very pushing man, and would be the first among other men; and in that he had his way, for a bounteous man was he, and so got speedily to be highly thought of in Norway.  Bolli kept a suite about him during the winter at Thrandheim, and it was easily seen, when he went to the guild meeting-places, that his men were both better arrayed as to raiment and weapons than other townspeople.  He alone also paid for all his suite when they sat drinking in guild halls, and on a par with this were his openhandedness and lordly ways in other matters.  Now the brothers stay in the town through the winter.  That winter the king sat east in Sarpsborg, and news spread from the east that the king was not likely to come north.  Early in the spring the brothers got their ship ready and went east along the land. [Sidenote:  They stay with King Olaf] The journey sped well for them, and they got east to Sarpsborg, and went forthwith to meet King Olaf.  The king gave a good welcome to Thorleik, his henchman, and his followers.  Then the king asked who was that man of stately gait in the train of Thorleik; and Thorleik answered, “He is my brother, and is named Bolli.”  “He looks, indeed, a man of high mettle,” said the king.  Thereupon the king asks the brothers to come and stay with him, and that offer they took with thanks, and spend the spring with the king.  The king was as kind to Thorleik as he had been before, yet he held Bolli by much in greater esteem, for he deemed him even peerless among men.  And as the spring went on, the brothers took counsel together about their journeys.  And Thorleik asked Bolli if he was minded to go back to Iceland during the summer, “or will you stay on longer here in Norway?” Bolli answered, “I do not mean to do either.  And sooth to say, when I left Iceland, my thought was settled on this, that people should not be asking for news of me from the house next door; and now I wish, brother, that you take over our ship.”