Hauskuld, "is, that thou shouldest make thine own
terms."

"Well," says Njal, "then I will utter the award at once if thou wilt."

"Wilt thou," says Hauskuld, "that thy sons should be by?"

"Then we should be no nearer an atonement than we were before," says
Njal, "but they will keep to the atonement which I utter."

Then Hauskuld said, "Let us close the matter then, and handsel him peace
on behalf of thy sons".

"So it shall be," says Njal. "My will then is that he pays two hundred
in silver for the slaying of Hauskuld, but he may still dwell at
Samstede; and yet I think it were wiser if he sold his land and changed
his abode; but not for this quarrel; neither I nor my sons will break
our pledges of peace to him: but methinks it may be that some one may
rise up in this country against whom he may have to be on his guard.
Yet, lest it should seem that I make a man an outcast from his native
place, I allow him to be here in this neighbourhood, but in that case he
alone is answerable for what may happen."

After that Hauskuld fared home, and Njal's sons woke up as he went, and
asked their father who had come, but he told them that his foster-son
Hauskuld had been there.

"He must have come to ask a boon for Lyting then," said Skarphedinn.

"So it was," says Njal

"Ill was it then," says Grim.

"Hauskuld could not have thrown his shield before him," says Njal, "if
thou hadst slain him, as it was meant thou shouldst."

"Let us throw no blame on our father," says Skarphedinn.

Now it is to be said that this atonement was kept between them
afterwards.

CHAPTER CV.

OF AMUND THE BLIND.

That event happened three winters after at the Thingskala-Thing that
Amund the blind was at the Thing; he was the son of Hauskuld Njal's son.
He made men lead him about among the booths, and so he came to the booth
inside which was Lyting of Samstede. He made them lead him into the
booth till he came before Lyting.

"Is Lyting of Samstede here?" he asked.

"What dost thou want?" says Lyting.

"I want to know," says Amund, "what atonement thou wilt pay me for my
father, I am base-born, and I have touched no fine."

"I have atoned for the slaying of thy father," says Lyting, "with a full
price, and thy father's father and thy father's brothers took the money;
but my brothers fell without a price as outlaws; and so it was that I
had both done an ill-deed, and paid dear for it."

"I ask not," says Amund, "as to thy h