enough the slave’s son has got for his name to be long remembered.”  At the moment that the house-carles had unloaded the pack horses Olaf rode into the place.  Then he said, “Now you shall have your curiosity satisfied with regard to what you have been talking about all the winter, as to what this place shall be called; it shall be called Herdholt.”  Every one thought this a very happy name, in view of what used to happen there.[2] Olaf now sets up his household at Herdholt, and a stately one it soon became, and nothing was lacking there.  And now the honour of Olaf greatly increased, there being many causes to bring it about:  Olaf was the most beloved of men, for whatever he had to do with affairs of men, he did so that all were well contented with their lot.  His father backed him up very much towards being a widely honoured man, and Olaf gained much in power from his alliance with the Mere-men.  Olaf was considered the noblest of all Hoskuld’s sons.  The first winter that Olaf kept house at Herdholt, he had many servants and workmen, and work was divided amongst the house-carles; one looked after the dry cattle and another after the cows.  The fold was out in the wood, some way from the homestead. [Sidenote:  Hrapp’s ghost] One evening the man who looked after the dry cattle came to Olaf and asked him to make some other man look after the neat and “set apart for me some other work.”  Olaf answered, “I wish you to go on with this same work of yours.”  The man said he would sooner go away.  “Then you think there is something wrong,” said Olaf.  “I will go this evening with you when you do up the cattle, and if I think there is any excuse for you in this I will say nothing about it, but otherwise you will find that your lot will take some turn for the worse.”  Olaf took his gold-set spear, the king’s gift, in his hand, and left home, and with him the house-carle.  There was some snow on the ground.  They came to the fold, which was open, and Olaf bade the house-carle go in.  “I will drive up the cattle and you tie them up as they come in.”  The house-carle went to the fold-door.  And all unawares Olaf finds him leaping into his open arms.  Olaf asked why he went on so terrified?  He replied, “Hrapp stands in the doorway of the fold, and felt after me, but I have had my fill of wrestling with him.”  Olaf went to the fold door and struck at him with his spear.  Hrapp took the socket of the spear in both hands and wrenched it aside, so that forthwith the spear shaft broke.  Olaf was about to run at Hrapp but he disappeared there where he stood, and there they parted, Olaf having the shaft and Hrapp the spear-head.  After that Olaf and the house-carle tied up the cattle and went home.  Olaf saw the house-carle was not to blame for his grumbling.  The next morning Olaf went to where Hrapp was buried and had him dug up.  Hrapp was found undecayed, and there Olaf also found his spear-head.  After that he had a pyre made and had Hrapp burnt on it, and his ashes were flung out to sea.  After that no one had any more trouble with Hrapp’s ghost.