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There their wounds were healed. Egil stayed there till spring.
But Thorstein sent messengers to king Hacon to bring him
the tribute for which Egil had gone to Vermaland.
Who, when they came before the king,
told him the tidings of what had been done in Egil's journey,
and brought him the tribute.
The king was now sure that what he had before suspected was true, namely,
that earl Arnvid had caused the slaying of the two companies
of messengers sent eastwards by him.
The king said that Thorstein should have leave to dwell in the land,
and should be reconciled to him.
Then the messengers returned home;
and on coming to Thorstein's told him that
the king was well pleased with this Vermaland journey,
and that Thorstein was now to have reconciliation and friendship with the king.
King Hacon in the summer went eastwards to Vik:
whence he journeyed still eastwards to Vermaland with a large force.
Earl Arnvid fled away;
but the king took large fines from those landowners whom he thought guilty against him according to the report of those who went after the tribute.
He set over the land another earl, taking hostages of him and of the landowners.
In this expedition Hacon went far and wide about western Gautland and subdued it,
as is told in his Saga, and is found in the poems composed about him.
It is also told that he went to Denmark, and harried there far and wide.
Then was it that with two ships he disabled twelve ships of the Danes,
and gave to Tryggva, son of his brother Olaf,
the name of king and the rule over Vik eastwards.

(Tryggva, son of his brother Olaf)