The men from the East, however, were armed and able to deal wounds.  Their captain Steinn cut off the leg of Kolbeinn’s son Ivar, and Ivar’s brother Leif beat one of Steinn’s men to death with a rib of the whale.  Then they fought with anything they could get, and men were slain on both sides.  At last Olaf came up with a number of ships from Drangar and joined Flosi; the men of Kaldbak were then overpowered by numbers.  They had already loaded their ships, and Svan told them to get on board.  They therefore retired towards the ships, the men of Vik after them.  Svan on reaching the sea struck at Steinn their captain, wounding him badly, and then sprang into his own ship.  Thorgrim gave Flosi a severe wound and escaped.  Olaf wounded Ofeig Grettir fatally, but Thorgeir carried him off and sprang on to his ship with him.  The Kaldbak men rowed into the fjord and the two parties separated.

The following verse was composed on these doings: 

“Hard were the blows which were dealt at Rifsker; no weapons they had but steaks of the whale.  They belaboured each other with rotten blubber.  Unseemly methinks is such warfare for men.”

After this they made peace, and the dispute was laid before the All-Thing.  On the side of the Kaldbak men were Thorodd the Godi, Skeggi of Midfjord, and many others from the South.  Flosi was exiled, along with several others who had been with him.  He was put to great expense, for he insisted upon paying all the fines himself.  Thorgrim and his brothers were unable to show that they had paid any money either for the land or for the drift which Flosi claimed.  The Lawman was Thorkell Mani, and the question was referred to him.  He declared that by law something must have been paid, though not necessarily the full value.

“There was a case in point,” he said, “between my grandfather Ingolf and a woman named Steinvor the Old.  He gave her the whole of Rosmhvalanes and she gave him a dirty cloak for it; the transfer was afterwards held to be valid.  That was a much more important affair than this.  My advice is that the land be divided in equal portions between the two; and henceforward it shall be legally established that all drift shall be the property of the owner of the land upon which it has been stranded.”

This was agreed to.  Thorgrim and his brothers were to give up Reykjarfjord with all on that side, and were to keep Kamb.  For Ofeig a large sum of money was paid, and Thorfinn was assessed at nothing at all; Thorgeir received compensation for the attack made upon his life, and all the parties were reconciled.  Flosi went to Norway with Steinn the captain and sold his lands in Vik to Geirmund Hvikatimbr, who lived there thenceforward.

The ship which Steinn’s sailors had built was rather a tub.  She was called Trekyllir—­Tree-sack.  Flosi went on his journey in her, but was driven back to Oxarfjord; out of this arose the saga of Bodmod the Champion and Grimolf.