Frothi's Peace


"After his victory Frothi desired to re-establish peace throughout his peoples; to ensure that each individual’s personal property should be safe from thievish marauders and to maintain quiet in his realms now the war was over, he fixed one bracelet to the rock they call Frodefjeld and another in the Vik province; he had had a meeting with the Norwegians, at which he warned that it would be necessary to punish all the chieftains of the area if these treasures were filched, for they were intended to serve as a test of the honest conduct he had imposed. It was to the utmost peril of their leaders that this unguarded gold was set up at the very places where roads met, an easily snatched prize to stimulate greedy minds and therefore a fine temptation to the avaricious."
 

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