only shall
have the right to make or change laws who sit on the middle bench, and
to this bench those only shall be chosen who are wisest and best. There,
too, shall the Fifth Court sit; but if those who sit in the Court of
Laws are not agreed as to what they shall allow or bring in as law, then
they shall clear the court for a division, and the majority shall bind
the rest; but if any man who has a seat in the Court be outside the
Court of Laws and cannot get inside it, or thinks himself overborne in
the suit, then he shall forbid them by a protest, so that they can hear
it in the Court, and then he has made all their grants and all their
decisions void and of none effect, and stopped them by his protest."

After that, Skapti Thorod's son brought the Fifth Court into the law,
and all that was spoken of before. Then men went to the Hill of Laws,
and men set up new priesthoods: in the Northlanders' Quarter were these
new priesthoods. The priesthood of the Melmen in Midfirth, and the
Laufesingers' priesthood in the Eyjafirth.

Then Njal begged for a hearing, and spoke thus--

"It is known to many men what passed between my sons and the men of
Gritwater when they slew Thrain Sigfus' son. But for all that we settled
the matter; and now I have taken Hauskuld into my house, and planned a
marriage for him if he can get a priesthood anywhere; but no man will
sell his priesthood, and so I will beg you to give me leave to set up a
new priesthood at Whiteness for Hauskuld."

He got this leave from all, and after that he set up the new priesthood
for Hauskuld; and he was afterwards called Hauskuld, the Priest of
Whiteness.

After that, men ride home from the Thing, and Njal stayed but a short
time at home ere he rides east to Swinefell, and his sons with him, and
again stirs in the matter of the marriage with Flosi; but Flosi said he
was ready to keep faith with them in everything.

Then Hildigunna was betrothed to Hauskuld, and the day for the wedding
feast was fixed, and so the matter ended. They then ride home, but they
rode again shortly to the bridal, and Flosi paid down all her goods and
money after the wedding, and all went off well.

They fared home to Bergthorsknoll, and were there the next year, and all
went well between Hildigunna and Bergthora. But the next spring Njal
bought land in Ossaby, and hands it over to Hauskuld, and thither he
fares to his own abode. Njal got him all his household, and there was
such