‘Burned were the fell folk’s steads,
Roofwards the red fire flamed.
Hit did the lord of chiefs
The Heiners with hard stones.
For their lives the sufferers craved;
So great a hurt the flames
The men of Ringariki wrought
Or ever the fire was stayed.’
¶ After this gave the peasants the whole matter into the hands of the King.
¶ After the death of King Magnus were spent fifteen winters ere the battle of the Niz, and after that two winters or ever Harald and Svein made peace. Thus saith Thiodolf: