Gunnlaug saw the great mocking hereunder, and much jeering was brought
into the play; and withal he went away silent.

So a little while after he said to the earl that he had no mind to bear
any longer the jeers and mocks of his courtiers about his dealings with
Raven, and therewith he prayed the earl to give him a guide to Lifangr:
now before this the earl had been told that Raven had left Lifangr and
gone east to Sweden; therefore, he granted Gunnlaug leave to go, and
gave him two guides for the journey.

Now Gunnlaug went from Hladir with six men to Lifangr; and, on the
morning of the very day whereas Gunnlaug came in in the evening, Raven
had left Lifangr with four men. Thence Gunnlaug went to Vera-dale, and
came always in the evening to where Raven had been the night before.

So Gunnlaug went on till he came to the uppermost farm in the valley,
called Sula, wherefrom had Raven fared in the morning; there he stayed
not his journey, but kept on his way through the night.

Then in the morning at sun-rise they saw one another. Raven had got to
a place where were two waters, and between them flat meads, and they
are called Gleipni's meads: but into one water stretched a little ness
called Dingness. There on the ness Raven and his fellows, five together,
took their stand. With Raven were his kinsmen, Grim and Olaf.

Now when they met, Gunnlaug said, "It is well that we have found one
another."

Raven said that he had nought to quarrel with therein;

"But now," says he, "thou mayest choose as thou wilt, either that we
fight alone together, or that we fight all of us man to man."

Gunnlaug said that either way seemed good to him.

Then spake Raven's kinsmen, Grim and Olaf, and said that they would
little like to stand by and look on the fight, and in like wise spake
Thorkel the Black, the kinsman of Gunnlaug.

Then said Gunnlaug to the earl's guides, "Ye shall sit by and aid
neither side, and be here to tell of our meeting;" and so they did.

So they set on, and fought dauntlessly, all of them. Grim and Olaf went
both against Gunnlaug alone, and so closed their dealings with him that
Gunnlaug slew them both and got no wound. This proves Thord Kolbeinson
in a song that he made on Gunnlaug the Wormtongue:--

"Grim and Olaf great-hearts
In Gondul's din, with thin sword
First did Gunnlaug fell there
Ere at Raven fared he;
Bold, with blood be-drifted
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