`A suit,' thou must answer, `which does not concern me. I want
to know how a man must set to work who wishes to get back Unna's
dower.'

"Then Hrut will say, `In this suit I must be summoned so that I
can hear the summons, or I must be summoned here in my lawful
house.'

"`Recite the summons, then,' thou must say, 'and I will say it
after thee.'

"Then Hrut will summon himself; and mind and pay great heed to
every word he says. After that Hrut will bid thee repeat the
summons, and thou must do so, and say it all wrong, so that no
more than every other word is right.

"Then Hrut will smile and not mistrust thee, but say that scarce a
word is right. Thou must throw the blame on thy companions, and
say they put thee out, and then thou must ask him to say the
words first, word by word, and to let thee say the words after
him. He will give thee leave, and summon himself in the suit,
and thou shalt summon after him there and then, and this time say
every word right. When it is done, ask Hrut if that were rightly
summoned, and he will answer, `There is no flaw to be found in
it.' Then thou shalt say in a loud voice, so that thy companions
may hear, `I summon thee in the suit which Unna, Mord's daughter,
has made over to me with her plighted hand.'

"But when men are sound asleep, you shall rise and take your
bridles and saddles, and tread softly, and go out of the house,
and put your saddles on your fat horses in the fields, and so
ride off on them, but leave the others behind you. You must ride
up into the hills away from the home pastures and stay there
three nights, for about so long will they seek you. After that
ride home south, riding always by night and resting by day. As
for us, we will then ride this summer to the Thing, and help thee
in thy suit." So Gunnar thanked Njal, and first of all rode
home.

23. HUCKSTER HEDINN.

Gunnar rode from home two nights afterwards, and two men with
him; they rode along until they got on Bluewoodheath and then men
on horseback met them and asked who that tall man might be of
whom so little was seen. But his companions said it was Huckster
Hedinn. Then the others said a worse was not to be looked for
behind, when such a man as he went before. Hedinn at once made
as though he would have set upon them, but yet each went their
way. So Gunnar went on doing everything as Njal had laid it down
for him, and when he came to Hauskuldstede he stayed there the
night