lling,
Bright flames blazed above thy roof.

"We shall have to boast of something else than that Njal has been burnt
in his house," says Flosi, "for there is no glory in that."

Then he went up on the gable, and Glum Hilldir's son, and some other
men. Then Glum said, "Is Skarphedinn dead, indeed?" But the others said
he must have been dead long ago.

The fire sometimes blazed up fitfully and sometimes burned low, and then
they heard down in the fire beneath them that this song was sung--

Deep, I ween, ye Ogre offspring!
Devilish brood of giant birth,
Would ye groan with gloomy visage
Had the fight gone to my mind;
But my very soul it gladdens
That my friends[73] who now boast high,
Wrought not this foul deed, their glory,
Save with footsteps filled with gore.

"Can Skarphedinn, think ye, have sung this song dead or alive?" said
Grani Gunnar's son.

"I will go into no guesses about that," says Flosi.

"We will look for Skarphedinn," says Grani, "and the other men who have
been here burnt inside the house."

"That shall not be," says Flosi, "it is just like such foolish men as
thou art, now that men will be gathering force all over the country; and
when they do come, I trow the very same man who now lingers will be so
scared that he will not know which way to run; and now my counsel is
that we all ride away as quickly as ever we can."

Then Flosi went hastily to his horse and all his men.

Then Flosi said to Geirmund--

"Is Ingialld, thinkest thou, at home, at the Springs?"

Geirmund said he thought he must be at home.

"There now is a man," says Flosi, "who has broken his oath with us and
all good faith."

Then Flosi said to the sons of Sigfus--"What course will ye now take
with Ingialld; will ye forgive him, or shall we now fall on him and slay
him?"

They all answered that they would rather fall on him and slay him.

Then Flosi jumped on his horse, and all the others, and they rode away.
Flosi rode first, and shaped his course for Rangriver, and up along the
river bank.

Then he saw a man riding down on the other bank of the river, and he
knew that there was Ingialld of the Springs. Flosi calls out to him.
Ingialld halted and turned down to the river bank; and Flosi said to
him--

"Thou hast broken faith with us, and hast forfeited life and goods. Here
now are the sons of Sigfus, who are eager to slay thee; but methinks
thou hast fallen into a strait, and I will give thee t