the worse it would be for Angle.
Through their intervention Angle got away and took with him Grettir's
head, which he intended to produce at the All-Thing. He rode home
thinking that matters were going badly for him, for nearly all the
chiefs in the land were either relations or connections of Grettir and
Illugi.

That summer Skeggi Short-hand married the daughter of Thorodd Drapustuf,
who then took part in the case on the side of Grettir's kinsmen.

CHAPTER LXXXIV. THORBJORN IS EXILED AT THE THING

Men now rode to the Thing. Angle's party was smaller than he had
expected, because the matter had come to be badly spoken of. Halldor
asked whether they were to take Grettir's head with them to the
All-Thing. Angle said he meant to take it.

"That is an ill-advised thing to do," said Halldor; "there are quite
enough men against you as it is, without your doing such a thing as that
to re-awaken their grief."

They were then on the road, and meant to ride South by Sand, so Angle
let him take the head and bury it in a sand-hill, which is now called
Grettisthuf.

The Thing was very full. Angle brought forward his case, making the most
of his own deeds. He told them how he had killed the forest-man on whose
head the highest price had been laid, and he claimed the money. Thorir
replied as before. Then the Lawman was asked for his opinion. He said
that he wished to hear whether any counter-charge was made, by which
Angle should forfeit the outlaw money; if not, the money offered for
Grettir's head must be paid. Then Thorvald the son of Asgeir asked
Short-hand to bring the case before the court, and he declared a first
summons against Thorbjorn Angle for witchcraft and sorcery through which
Grettir had met with his death, and a second for having killed a man who
was half dead, crimes which he said were punishable with outlawry.

There was a great division of parties, but those who supported Thorbjorn
were few. It went very unexpectedly for him, for Thorvald and his
son-in-law Isleif held that to do a man to death by sorcery was a crime
worthy of death. Finally, by the counsel of wise men sentence was passed
that Thorbjorn was to leave Iceland that summer and not to return during
the lifetime of any of the men concerned in the case on the side of
Illugi and Grettir. It was enacted as a law that all sorcerers should be
outlawed.

When Thorbjorn saw what his fate was going to be he got away from the
Thing, for Grettir