and my son Thorhall with thee. Thou wilt treat him best and
kindest, as he is footlame, but we shall stand in the greatest need of
him at this Thing. With you two, twenty men more shall ride."

After that they made ready for their journey, and then they rode to the
Thing, and set up their booths, and fitted them out well.

CHAPTER CXXXV.

OF FLOSI AND THE BURNERS.

Flosi rode from the east and those hundred and twenty men who had been
at the Burning with him. They rode till they came to Fleetlithe. Then
the sons of Sigfus looked after their homesteads and tarried there that
day, but at even they rode west over Thurso-water, and slept there that
night. But next morning early they saddled their horses and rode off on
their way.

Then Flosi said to his men--

"Now will we ride to Tongue to Asgrim to breakfast, and trample down his
pride a little."

They said that were well done. They rode till they had a short way to
Tongue. Asgrim stood out of doors, and some men with him. They see the
band as soon as ever they could do so from the house. Then Asgrim's men
said--

"There must be Thorgeir Craggeir."

"Not he," said Asgrim. "I think so all the more because these men fare
with laughter and wantonness; but such kinsmen of Njal as Thorgeir is
would not smile before some vengeance is taken for the Burning, and I
will make another guess, and maybe ye will think that unlikely. My
meaning is, that it must be Flosi and the Burners with him, and they
must mean to humble us with insults, and we will now go indoors all of
us."

Now they do so, and Asgrim made them sweep the house and put up the
hangings, and set the boards and put meat on them. He made them place
stools along each bench all down the room.

Flosi rode into the "town," and bade men alight from their horses and go
in. They did so, and Flosi and his men went into the hall, Asgrim sate
on the cross-bench on the dais. Flosi looked at the benches and saw that
all was made ready that men needed to have. Asgrim gave them no
greeting, but said to Flosi--

"The boards are set, so that meat may be free to those that need it."

Flosi sat down to the board, and all his men; but they laid their arms
up against the wainscot. They sat on the stools who found no room on
the benches; but four men stood with weapons just before where Flosi sat
while they ate.

Asgrim kept his peace during the meat, but was as red to look on as
blood.

But when they were full