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The lord of that island was called Thorfinn, son of Karr the Old. When day dawned he sent down a boat to rescue the shipwrecked sailors, who were saved, with their merchandise, but their vessel broke up.
The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878
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And after that earl Thorfinn sent men out into the isles, and asked for that trithing from earl Rognvald, which earl Einar Wrymouth had owned.
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Earl Thorfinn was in such a fury that soon afterwards he sent men to the Hebrides and south to Scotland to gather forces.
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There came against him earl Thorfinn, and had sixty ships, and most of them small.
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Earl Thorfinn let them there take about thirty men and slay them.
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And when earl Rognvald saw in what a straight he was come, and that he could not conquer Thorfinn and Kalf both, then he made them hew the lashings asunder, and laid himself out to fly.
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Rognvald and his men bore fire to the homestead; but when earl Thorfinn was ware of the strife, he sent men to the doors and let them ask, who had sway over the strife.
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Earl Rognvald then egged on his men to board; but when earl Thorfinn saw into what a bad plight they were come, he made them cut his ship away from her lashings and rowed to land.
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Many were slain, but some came to terms of peace; then earl Thorfinn laid under him all the isles, and made every man come into his hand, and those as well who had been before bound by an oath to Rognvald.
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And now, when this is told to earl Rognvald, that earl Thorfinn was gathering a force against him, he summoned his friends about him, and moots this with them, that earl Thorfinn his kinsman means to come to blows with him with a host and strife.
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