were sent after Snorri and Gudmund, for they were in their
booths.

Then it was given out that the judges in this award would sit in the
Court of Laws, but all the others were to go away.

CHAPTER CXXII.

OF THE JUDGES.

Then Snorri the priest spoke thus--"Now are we here twelve judges to
whom these suits are handed over, now I will beg you all that we may
have no stumbling-blocks in these suits, so that they may not be
atoned".

"Will ye," said Gudmund, "award either the lesser or the greater
outlawry? Shall they be banished from the district, or from the whole
land?"

"Neither of them," says Snorri, "for those banishments are often ill
fulfilled, and men have been slain for that sake, and atonements broken,
but I will award so great a money fine that no man shall have had a
higher price here in the land than Hauskuld."

They all spoke well of his words.

Then they talked over the matter, and could not agree which should first
utter how great he thought the fine ought to be, and so the end of it
was that they cast lots, and the lot fell on Snorri to utter it.

Then Snorri said, "I will not sit long over this, I will now tell you
what my utterance is, I will let Hauskuld be atoned for with triple
manfines, but that is six hundred in silver. Now ye shall change it, if
ye think it too much or too little."

They said that they would change it in nothing.

"This too shall be added," he said, "that all the money shall be paid
down here at the Thing."

Then Gizur the white spoke and said--

"Methinks that can hardly be, for they will not have enough money to pay
their fines."

"I know what Snorri wishes," said Gudmund the powerful, "he wants that
all we daysmen should give such a sum as our bounty will bestow, and
then many will do as we do."

Hall of the Side thanked him, and said he would willingly give as much
as any one else gave, and then all the other daysmen agreed to that.

After that they went away, and settled between them that Hall should
utter the award at the Court of Laws.

So the bell was rung, and all men went to the Court of Laws, and Hall of
the Side stood up and spoke--

"In this suit, in which we have come to an award, we have been all well
agreed, and we have awarded six hundred in silver, and half this sum we
the daysmen will pay, but it must all be paid up here at the Thing. But
it is my prayer to all the people that each man will give something for
God's sake."

All a