hy life if thou
will hand over to me the right to make my own award."

"I will sooner ride to meet Kari," said Ingialld, "than grant thee the
right to utter thine own award, and my answer to the sons of Sigfus is
this, that I shall be no whit more afraid of them than they are of me."

"Bide thou there," says Flosi, "if thou art not a coward, for I will
send thee a gift."

"I will bide of a surety," says Ingialld.

Thorstein Kolbein's son, Flosi's brother's son, rode up by his side and
had a spear in his hand, he was one of the bravest of men, and the most
worthy of those who were with Flosi.

Flosi snatched the spear from him, and launched it at Ingialld, and it
fell on his left side, and passed through the shield just below the
handle, and clove it all asunder, but the spear passed on into his
thigh just above the knee-pan, and so on into the saddle-tree, and there
stood fast.

Then Flosi said to Ingialld--

"Did it touch thee?"

"It touched me sure enough," says Ingialld, "but I call this a scratch
and not a wound."

Then Ingialld plucked the spear out of the wound, and said to Flosi--

"Now bide thou, if thou art not a milksop."

Then he launched the spear back over the river. Flosi sees that the
spear is coming straight for his middle, and then he backs his horse out
of the way, but the spear flew in front of Flosi's horse, and missed
him, but it struck Thorstein's middle, and down he fell at once dead off
his horse.

Now Ingialld tuns for the wood, and they could not get at him.

Then Flosi said to his men--

"Now have we gotten manscathe, and now we may know, when such things
befall us, into what a luckless state we have got. Now it is my counsel
that we ride up to Threecorner ridge; thence we shall be able to see
where men ride all over the country, for by this time they will have
gathered together a great band, and they will think that we have ridden
east to Fleetlithe from Threecorner ridge; and thence they will think
that we are riding north up on the fell, and so east to our own country,
and thither the greater part of the folk will ride after us; but some
will ride the coast road east to Selialandsmull, and yet they will think
there is less hope of finding us thitherward, but I will now take
counsel for all of us, and my plan is to ride up into Threecorner-fell,
and bide there till three suns have risen and set in heaven."

CHAPTER CXXX.

OF KARI SOLMUND'S SON.

Now it is to be