The headland included ten large farms.
"Much grain could grow there," observed the king.
Halfdan declared that what he wished most of all was cows, and so many of them that in drinking they would cover the shores of Guttorm's headland.
"But what do you wish, Harold?" asked Olaf, turning to the youngest boy.
"Men,"[A] answered Harold.
[A] The word used is hus-karler, i. e., house-carles, retainers. What the boy meant to say was that he wished to have men under his command.
"How many?"
"So many that they would in a single meal eat up all my brother Halfdan's cattle."
"There, mother," said Olaf, laughing, as he turned to Aasta, "thou art fostering a king."