Helgi
Njal's son with a brain, or body, or marrow wound, which proved a death
wound, and from which Helgi got his death, on that spot where Flosi
Thord's son first rushed on Helgi Njal's son with an assault laid down
by law. I call on you to utter all those words which ye are bound to
find by law, and which I shall call on you to utter before the court,
and which belong to this suit I call upon you by a lawful summons--I
call on you so that ye may yourselves hear--I call on you in the suit
which Thorgeir Thorir's son has handed over to me."

Then Mord said--

"Now is the suit set on foot as ye asked, and now I will pray thee,
Thorgeir Craggeir, to come to me when thou ridest to the Thing, and then
let us both ride together, each with our band, and keep as close as we
can together, for my band shall be ready by the very beginning of the
Thing, and I will be true to you in all things."

They showed themselves well pleased at that, and this was fast bound by
oaths, that no man should sunder himself from another till Kari willed
it, and that each of them should lay down his life for the other's life.
Now they parted with friendship, and settled to meet again at the Thing.

Now Thorgeir rides back east, but Kari rides west over the rivers till
he came to Tongue, to Asgrim's house. He welcomed them wonderfully well,
and Kari told Asgrim all Gizur the white's plan, and of the setting on
foot of the suit.

"I looked for as much from him," says Asgrim, "that he would behave
well, and now he has shown it."

Then Asgrim went on--

"What heardest thou from the east of Flosi?"

"He went east all the way to Weaponfirth," answers Kari, "and nearly all
the chiefs have promised to ride with him to the Althing, and to help
him. They look, too, for help from the Reykdalesmen, and the men of
Lightwater, and the Axefirthers."

Then they talked much about it, and so the time passes away up to the
Althing.

Thorhall Asgrim's son took such a hurt in his leg that the foot above
the ankle was as big and swollen as a woman's thigh, and he could not
walk save with a staff. He was a man tall in growth, and strong and
powerful, dark of hue in hair and skin, measured and guarded in his
speech, and yet hot and hasty tempered. He was the third greatest lawyer
in all Iceland.

Now the time comes that men should ride from home to the Thing, Asgrim
said to Kari--

"Thou shalt ride at the very beginning of the Thing, and fit up our
booths,