Flosi Thord's son for that he wounded Helgi Njal's son with a brain, or
a body, or a marrow wound, which proved a death-wound, and from which
Helgi got his death. I said that he ought to be made in this suit a
guilty man, an outlaw, not he fed, not to be forwarded, not to be helped
or harboured in any need; I said that all his goods were forfeited, half
to me and half to the men of the Quarter who have the right by law to
take the goods which he has forfeited; I gave notice of the suit in the
Quarter Court into which the suit ought by law to come; I gave notice of
that lawful notice; I gave notice in the hearing of all men at the Hill
of Laws; I gave notice of this suit to be pleaded now this summer, and
of full outlawry against Flosi Thord's son. I gave notice of a suit
which Thorgeir Thorir's son had handed over to me; and I had all these
words in my notice which I have now used in this declaration of my suit.
I now declare this suit of outlawry in this shape before the court of
the Eastfirthers over the head of John, as I uttered it when I gave
notice of it."
Then Mord's witnesses to the notice came before the court, and spake so
that one uttered their witness, but both confirmed it by their common
consent in this form, "I bear witness that Mord called Thorodd as his
first witness, and me as his second, and my name is Thorbjorn"--then he
named his father's name--"Mord called us two as his witnesses that he
gave notice of an assault laid down by law against Flosi Thord's son
when he rushed on Helgi Njal's son, in that spot where Flosi Thord's son
dealt Helgi Njal's son a brain, or a body, or a marrow wound, that
proved a death-wound, and from which Helgi got his death. He said that
Flosi ought to be made in this suit a guilty man, an outlaw, not to be
fed, not to be forwarded, not to be helped or harboured by any man; he
said that all his goods were forfeited, half to himself and half to the
men of the Quarter who have the right by law to take the goods which he
had forfeited; he gave notice of the suit in the Quarter Court into
which the suit ought by law to come; he gave notice of that lawful
notice; he gave notice in the hearing of all men at the Hill of Laws; he
gave notice of this suit to be pleaded now this summer, and of full
outlawry against Flosi Thord's son. He gave notice of a suit which
Thorgeir Thorir's son had handed over to him. He used all those words in
his notice which he used in the declaration of
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