raised over him on the ness that runs out into the Salmon-river and is called Drafn-ness, with a wall round which is called Howes-garth.  After that liegemen crowded to Olaf and he became a great chieftain.  Hoskuld was not envious of this, for he always wished that Olaf should be consulted in all great matters.  The place Olaf owned was the stateliest in Salmon-river-Dale. [Sidenote:  The new house built] There were two brothers with Olaf, both named An.  One was called An the White and the other An the Black.  They had a third brother who was named Beiner the Strong.  These were Olaf’s smiths, and very valiant men.  Thorgerd and Olaf had a daughter who was named Thurid.  The land that Hrapp had owned all lay waste, as has been told before.  Olaf thought that it lay well and set before his father his wishes on the matter; how they should send down to Trefill with this errand, that Olaf wished to buy the land and other things thereto belonging at Hrappstead.  It was soon arranged and the bargain settled, for Trefill saw that better was one crow in the hand than two in the wood.  The bargain arranged was that Olaf should give three marks of silver for the land; yet that was not fair price, for the lands were wide and fair and very rich in useful produce, such as good salmon fishing and seal catching.  There were wide woods too, a little further up than Hoskuldstead, north of the Salmon-river, in which was a space cleared, and it was well-nigh a matter of certainty that the flocks of Olaf would gather together there whether the weather was hard or mild.  One autumn it befell that on that same hill Olaf had built a dwelling of the timber that was cut out of the forest, though some he got together from drift-wood strands.  This was a very lofty dwelling.  The buildings stood empty through the winter.  The next spring Olaf went thither and first gathered together all his flocks which had grown to be a great multitude; for, indeed, no man was richer in live stock in all Broadfirth.  Olaf now sent word to his father that he should be standing out of doors and have a look at his train as he was moving to his new home, and should give him his good wishes.  Hoskuld said so it should be.  Olaf now arranged how it should be done.  He ordered that all the shiest of his cattle should be driven first and then the milking live stock, then came the dry cattle, and the pack horses came in the last place; and men were ranged with the animals to keep them from straying out of straight line.  When the van of the train had got to the new homestead, Olaf was just riding out of Goddistead and there was nowhere a gap breaking the line.  Hoskuld stood outside his door together with those of his household. [Sidenote:  The naming of Herdholt] Then Hoskuld spake, bidding Olaf his son welcome and abide all honour to this new dwelling of his, “And somehow my mind forebodes me that this will follow, that for a long time his name will be remembered.”  Jorunn his wife said, “Wealth