ere is which thou hast not taught me, and
that is how to woo me a wife."

Thorstein said, "That is but a small matter," and therewith taught him
how to go about it.

Then said Gunnlaug, "Now shalt thou try if I have understood all: I
shall take thee by the hand and make as if I were wooing thy daughter
Helga."

"I see no need of that," says Thorstein. Gunnlaug, however, groped
then and there after his hand, and seizing it said, "Nay, grant me this
though."

"Do as thou wilt, then," said Thorstein; "but be it known to all who
are hereby that this shall be as if it had been unspoken, nor shall any
guile follow herein."

Then Gunnlaug named for himself witnesses, and betrothed Helga to him,
and asked thereafter if it would stand good thus. Thorstein said that it
was well; and those who were present were mightily pleased at all this.

CHAPTER V. Of Raven and his Kin.

There was a man called Onund, who dwelt in the south at Mossfell: he
was the wealthiest of men, and had a priesthood south there about the
nesses. He was married, and his wife was called Geirny. She was the
daughter of Gnup, son of Mold-Gnup, who settled at Grindwick, in the
south country. Their sons were Raven, and Thorarin, and Eindridi; they
were all hopeful men, but Raven was in all wise the first of them. He
was a big man and a strong, the sightliest of men and a good skald;
and when he was fully grown he fared between sundry lands, and was well
accounted of wherever he came.

Thorod the Sage, the son of Eyvind, then dwelt at Hjalli, south in
Olfus, with Skapti his son, who was then the spokesman-at-law in
Iceland. The mother of Skapti was Ranveig, daughter of Gnup, the son of
Mold-Gnup; and Skapti and the sons of Onund were sisters' sons. Between
these kinsmen was much friendship as well as kinship.

At this time Thorfin, the son of Selthorir, dwelt at Red-Mel, and
had seven sons, who were all the hopefullest of men; and of them were
these--Thorgils, Eyjolf, and Thorir; and they were all the greatest men
out there. But these men who have now been named lived all at one and
the same time.

Next to this befell those tidings, the best that ever have befallen here
in Iceland, that the whole land became Christian, and that all folk cast
off the old faith.

CHAPTER VI. How Helga was vowed to Gunnlaug, and of Gunnlaug's
faring abroad.

Gunnlaug Worm-Tongue was, as is aforesaid, whiles at Burg with
Thorstein, whiles with his fath