King Harold accepts a truce with the surviving Norwegians, including Harald's son Olaf and Paul and Erland Thorfinnsson, Ears of Orkney.

Olaf, who is only sixteen years old, had stayed on a ship and had not participated in the fighting.

The survivors are allowed to leave after giving pledges not to attack England again.

The losses the Norwegians have suffered are so horrific that only twenty-four ships from the fleet of over three hundred are needed to carry the survivors away.

They withdraw to Orkney, where they will spend the winter before returning to Norway in the spring, Olaf leaving on good terms with the Thorfinssons.