Olaf said, "Will you consult with my bishop, and hear what he has to say?"
"I will," said Gunnar, "but you must let me tell you that I am not a scholar, but a man of hands. There will be more talking. Heat will be engendered, and you will be angry again."
Olaf liked Gunnar very well, and was silent for a bit. Then he said, "You are one of the few who gainsay me; yet I don't feel badly disposed to you. I think you are a fool; but you seem to know it yourself."
"The fact is, that I do," said Gunnar. "Your bishop alarms me."
"You will find out in time that I am right and you wrong," said the king. "Be off with you, and serve me as well as you can."
"Have no fear about that," said Gunnar, and kept to his own religion, which was not, with him, a very great matter. But he did not feel at all inclined to change it because he was told to do so. King Olaf soon got over his vexation; but, as it will shortly appear, he kept it at the back of his mind.
OGMUND DINT COMES AGAIN TO NORWAY, AND MEETS GUNNAR ON THE HARD OF DRONTHEIM