out it, and had never a word to say. Then Snorri
said--

"I see plainly that thou must have taken it as a gift, and may this ring
not be thy death!"

Eyjolf jumped up and went away, and would not speak about it; and Snorri
said, as Eyjolf arose--

"It is very likely that thou wilt know what kind of gift thou hast taken
by the time this Thing is ended."

Then Eyjolf went to his booth.

CHAPTER CXXXVIII.

OF ASGRIM, AND GIZUR, AND KARI.

Now Asgrim Ellidagrim's son talks to Gizur the white, and Kari Solmund's
son, and to Hjallti Skeggi's son, Mord Valgard's son, and Thorgeir
Craggeir, and says--

"There is no need to have any secrets here, for only those men are by
who know all our counsel. Now I will ask you if ye know anything of
their plans, for if you do, it seems to me that we must take fresh
counsel about our own plans."

"Snorri the priest," answers Gizur the white, "sent a man to me, and
bade him tell me that Flosi had gotten great help from the Northlanders;
but that Eyjolf Bolverk's son, his kinsman, had had a gold ring given
him by some one, and made a secret of it, and Snorri said it was his
meaning that Eyjolf Bolverk's son must be meant to defend the suit at
law, and that the ring must have been given him for that."

They were all agreed that it must be so. Then Gizur spoke to them--

"Now has Mord Valgard's son, my son-in-law, undertaken a suit, which all
must think most hard, to prosecute Flosi; and now my wish is that ye
share the other suits amongst you, for now it will soon be time to give
notice of the suits at the Hill of Laws. We shall need also to ask for
more help."

Asgrim said so it should be, "but we will beg thee to go round with us
when we ask for help". Gizur said he would be ready to do that.

After that Gizur picked out all the wisest men of their company to go
with him as his backers. There was Hjallti Skeggi's son, and Asgrim, and
Kari, and Thorgeir Craggeir.

Then Gizur the white said--

"Now will we first go to the booth of Skapti Thorod's son," and they do
so. Gizur the white went first, then Hjallti, then Kari, then Asgrim,
then Thorgeir Craggeir, and then his brothers.

They went into the booth. Skapti sat on the cross-bench on the dais, and
when he saw Gizur the white he rose up to meet him, and greeted him and
all of them well, and bade Gizur to sit down by him, and he does so.
Then Gizur said to Asgrim--

"Now shalt thou first raise the question of h