land.”  The king drew a gold ring off his arm that weighed a mark, and gave it to Hoskuld; and he gave him for another gift a sword on which there was half a mark of gold.  Hoskuld thanked the king for his gifts, and for all the honour he had done him. [Sidenote:  Hoskuld’s arrival in Iceland] After that Hoskuld went on board his ship, and put to sea.  They had a fair wind, and hove in to the south of Iceland; and after that sailed west by Reekness, and so by Snowfellness in to Broadfirth.  Hoskuld landed at Salmon-river-Mouth.  He had the cargo taken out of his ship, which he took into the river and beached, having a shed built for it.  A ruin is to be seen now where he built the shed.  There he set up his booths, and that place is called Booths’-Dale.  After that Hoskuld had the timber taken home, which was very easy, as it was not far off.  Hoskuld rode home after that with a few men, and was warmly greeted, as was to be looked for.  He found that all his belongings had been kept well since he left.  Jorunn asked, “What woman that was who journeyed with him?” Hoskuld answered, “You will think I am giving you a mocking answer when I tell you that I do not know her name.”  Jorunn said, “One of two things there must be:  either the talk is a lie that has come to my ears, or you must have spoken to her so much as to have asked her her name.”  Hoskuld said he could not gainsay that, and so told her the truth, and bade that the woman should be kindly treated, and said it was his wish she should stay in service with them.  Jorunn said, “I am not going to wrangle with the mistress you have brought out of Norway, should she find living near me no pleasure; least of all should I think of it if she is both deaf and dumb.”  Hoskuld slept with his wife every night after he came home, and had very little to say to the mistress. [Sidenote:  Melkorka’s history discovered] Every one clearly saw that there was something betokening high birth in the way she bore herself, and that she was no fool.  Towards the end of the winter Hoskuld’s mistress gave birth to a male child.  Hoskuld was called, and was shown the child, and he thought, as others did, that he had never seen a goodlier or a more noble-looking child.  Hoskuld was asked what the boy should be called.  He said it should be named Olaf, for Olaf Feilan had died a little time before, who was his mother’s brother.  Olaf was far before other children, and Hoskuld bestowed great love on the boy.  The next summer Jorunn said, “That the woman must do some work or other, or else go away.”  Hoskuld said she should wait on him and his wife, and take care of her boy besides.  When the boy was two years old he had got full speech, and ran about like children of four years old.  Early one morning, as Hoskuld had gone out to look about his manor, the weather being fine, and the sun, as yet little risen in the sky, shining brightly, it happened that he heard some voices of people talking; so he went down to where a little brook ran past the home-field slope,