King Haraldur invited a familiar man to go to Iceland and try what he could tell him. The one went in the form of a whale. But when he came to the country, he went west to the north of the country. He saw that all the mountains and hills were full of wetlands, some big, some small.

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But when he came to Vopnafjörður, he entered the fjord and intended to walk ashore. Then a great dragon came out of the valley, and many snakes, bugs and lizards followed him and blew poison at him, but he went away and went west to the land all the way to Eyjafjörður. He entered along that fjord. There, a bird so large that its wings took out the mountains on two sides met him, and a multitude of other birds, both large and small. From there he went west across the country and then south to Breiðafjörður and headed into the fjord there. There, a great hornet met him and rushed out into the sea and began to howl terribly. A number of patriots followed him. He left there and went south via Reykjanes and wanted to go up to Víkarsskeidi. There met him a rock giant with an iron staff in his hand, and his head was higher than the mountains, and many other giants with him. From there he went east along the length of the land. "There was then," he says, "except for sands and shoals and a lot of surf outside, but so much sea between the countries," he says, "that long ships cannot fit there."

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Then there was Brodd-Helgi in Vopnafjörður, Eyjólfur Valgerðarson in Eyjafjörður, Þórður ghúlin in Breiðafjörður, Þórodður goði in Ölfus.

Then the Danish king turned his army south by land, then went to Denmark, but earl Hákon had the whole country built and no taxes were due to the Danish king after that.

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