got my kinswoman Thorfinna
with child, and I will hand over to thee the suit for seduction. Another
suit of outlawry against Starkad I hand over also to thee, for having
hewn trees in my wood on the Threecorner ridge. Both these suits shalt
thou take up. Thou shalt fare too to the spot where ye fought, and dig
up the dead, and name witnesses to the wounds, and make all the dead
outlaws, for that they came against thee with that mind to give thee and
thy brothers wounds or swift death. But if this be tried at the Thing,
and it be brought up against thee that thou first gave Thorgeir a blow,
and so mayest neither plead thine own cause nor that of others, then I
will answer in that matter, and say that I gave thee back thy rights at
the Thingskala-Thing, so that thou shouldest be able to plead thine own
suit as well as that of others, and then there will be an answer to that
point. Thou shalt also go to see Tyrfing of Berianess, and he must hand
over to thee a suit against Aunund of Witchwood, who has the blood feud
after his brother Egil."

Then first of all Gunnar rode home; but a few nights after Njal's sons
and Gunnar rode thither where the bodies were, and dug them up that were
buried there. Then Gunnar summoned them all as outlaws for assault and
treachery, and rode home after that.

CHAPTER LXIV.

OF VALGARD AND MORD.

That same harvest Valgard the guileful came out to Iceland, and fared
home to Hof. Then Thorgeir went to see Valgard and Mord, and told them
what a strait they were in if Gunnar were to be allowed to make all
those men outlaws whom he had slain.

Valgard said that must be Njal's counsel, and yet every thing had not
come out yet which he was likely to have taught him.

Then Thorgeir begged those kinsmen for help and backing, but they held
out a long while, and at last asked for and got a large sum of money.

That, too, was part of their plan, that Mord should ask for Thorkatla,
Gizur the white's daughter, and Thorgeir was to ride at once west across
the river with Valgard and Mord.

So the day after they rode twelve of them together and came to Mossfell.
There they were heartily welcomed, and they put the question to Gizur
about the wooing, and the end of it was that the match should be made,
and the wedding feast was to be in half a month's space at Mossfell.

They ride home, and after that they ride to the wedding, and there was a
crowd of guests to meet them, and it went off well.