Onund was a man of immense strength and he bade his followers observe how it fared with them.  They shoved a log under the stump of his leg, so that he stood pretty firm.  The viking dashed forward, reached Onund and hewed at him with his sword, which cut right through his shield and into the log beneath his leg, where it remained fixed.  As Vigbjod bent down to pull his sword clear again, Onund dealt him a blow on his shoulder, severing his arm and disabling him.  When Vestmar saw his comrade fall, he sprang on to the outermost ship and escaped along with all who could get on to her.  Then they examined the dead.  Vigbjod had already expired.  Onund went up to him and said: 

     “Bloody thy wounds.  Didst thou see me flee? 
     ‘One-leg’ no hurt received from thee. 
     Braver are many in word than in deed. 
     Thou, slave, didst fail when it came to the trial.”

They took a large quantity of booty and returned to the Barra Isles in the autumn.

CHAPTER V

VISIT OF ONUND AND THRAND TO EYVIND IN IRELAND

The following summer they made ready for a voyage to the West, to Ireland.  At the same time Balki and Hallvard sailed westwards, to Iceland, where they had heard that good land was available for occupation.  Balki took up some land at Hrutafjord, and had his abode in two places called Balkastad.  Hallvard occupied Sugandafjord and Skalavik as far as Stigi, where he lived.

Thrand and Onund went to visit Eyvind the Easterner, who welcomed joyfully his brother Thrand; but when he heard that Onund had also come, he became very angry and wanted to fight him.  Thrand asked him not to do so, and said it would ill become him to quarrel with men from Norway, especially with such as had given no offence.  Eyvind said that he had given offence before, when he made war on Kjarval the king, and that he should now pay for it.  The brothers had much to say to each other about the matter, till at last Thrand said that he and Onund should share their fortune together.  Then Eyvind allowed himself to be appeased.  They stayed there a long time in the summer and went with Eyvind on his expeditions.  Eyvind found Onund to be a man of the greatest valour.  In the autumn they went to the Hebrides, and Eyvind made over to Thrand all his share in their father Bjorn’s patrimony in the event of Bjorn dying before Thrand.  They stayed in the Hebrides until they married and some years after.

CHAPTER VI

DEATH OF BJORN; DISPUTES OVER HIS PROPERTY IN NORWAY

The next thing that happened was the death of Thrand’s father Bjorn.  When the news of it reached Grim the Hersir he proceeded against Ondott Crow and claimed Bjorn’s estate.  Ondott held Thrand to be the rightful heir of his father, but Grim contended that Thrand was away in the West.  Bjorn, he said, came from Gautland, and the succession to the estate of all foreigners passed to the king.  Ondott said that he would hold the property on behalf of Thrand, who was his daughter’s son.  Grim then departed, having effected nothing by his claim.