d-feud after
thee."

"Thou lackest not grimness," answered Flosi, "and what thou wantest is
plain."

"Arnor Ornolf's son, of Forswaterwood," said Hildigunna, "had done less
wrong towards Thord Frey's priest thy father; and yet thy brothers
Kolbein and Egil slew him at Skaptarfells-Thing."

Then Hildigunna went back into the hall and unlocked her chest, and then
she took out the cloak, Flosi's gift, and in it Hauskuld had been slain,
and there she had kept it, blood and all. Then she went back into the
sitting room with the cloak; she went up silently to Flosi. Flosi had
just then eaten his full, and the board was cleared. Hildigunna threw
the cloak over Flosi, and the gore rattled down all over him.

Then she spoke and said--

"This cloak, Flosi, thou gavest to Hauskuld, and now I will give it back
to thee; he was slain in it, and I call God and all good men to witness,
that I adjure thee, by all the might of thy Christ, and by thy manhood
and bravery, to take vengeance for all those wounds which he had on his
dead body, or else to be called every man's dastard."

Flosi threw the cloak off him and hurled it into her lap, and said--

"Thou art the greatest hell-hag, and thou wishest that we should take
that course which will be the worst for all of us. But 'women's counsel
is ever cruel'."

Flosi was so stirred at this, that sometimes he was bloodred in the
face, and sometimes ashy pale as withered grass, and sometimes blue as
death.

Flosi and his men rode away; he rode to Holtford, and there waits for
the sons of Sigfus and other of his men.

Ingialld dwelt at the Springs; he was the brother of Rodny, Hauskuld
Njal's son's mother. Ingialld had to wife Thraslauga, the daughter of
Egil, the son of Thord Frey's priest. Flosi sent word to Ingialld to
come to him, and Ingialld went at once, with fourteen men. They were all
of his household. Ingialld was a tall man and a strong, and slow to
meddle with other men's business, one of the bravest of men, and very
bountiful to his friends.

Flosi greeted him well, and said to him, "Great trouble hath now come on
me and my brothers-in-law, and it is hard to see our way out of it; I
beseech thee not to part from my suit until this trouble is past and
gone."

"I am come into a strait myself," said Ingialld, "for the sake of the
ties that there are between me and Njal and his sons, and other great
matters which stand in the way."

"I thought," said Flosi, "when I ga