After that Kari spoke to Helgi, and asked whether he would take
any amends from the earl or not.
“I will take them,” said Helgi, “from his son Eric, but I will
have nothing to do with the earl.”
Then Kari told Eric their answer.
“So it shall be.” says Eric. “He shall take the amends from me
if he thinks it better; and tell them this too, that I bid them
to my house, and my father shall do them no harm.”
This bidding they took, and went to Eric’s house, and were with
him till Kari was ready to sail west across the sea to meet Earl
Sigurd.
Then Eric made a feast for Kari, and gave him gifts, and Njal’s
sons gifts too. After that Kari fared west across the sea, and
met Earl Sigurd, and he greeted them very well, and they were
with the earl that winter.
But when the spring came, Kari asked Njal’s sons to go on warfare
with him, but Grim said they would only do so if he would fare
with them afterwards out to Iceland. Kari gave his word to do
that, and then they fared with him a-searoving. They harried
south about Anglesea and all the Southern isles. Thence they
held on to Cantyre, and landed there, and fought with the
landsmen, and got thence much goods, and so fared to their ships.
Thence they fared south to Wales, and harried there. Then
they held on for Alan, and there they met Godred, and fought with
him, and got the victory, and slew Dungal the king’s son. There
they took great spoil. Thence they held on north to Coll, and
found Earl Gilli there, and he greeted them well and there they
stayed with him a while. The earl fared with them to the Orkneys
to meet Earl Sigurd, but next spring Earl Sigurd gave away his
sister Nereida to Earl Gilli, and then he fared back to the
Southern isles.
89. NJAL’S SONS AND KARI COME OUT TO ICELAND
That summer Kari and Njal’s sons busked them for Iceland, and
when they were “allboun” they went to see the earl. The earl
gave them good gifts, and they parted with great friendship.
Now they put to sea and have a short passage, and they got a fine
fair breeze, and made the land at Eyrar. Then they got them
horses and ride from the ship to Bergthorsknoll, but when they
came home all men were glad to see them. They flitted home their
goods and laid up the ship, and Kari was there that winter with
Njal.
But the spring after, Kari asked for Njal’s daughter, Helga, to
wife, and Helgi and Grim backed his suit; and so the end of it
was that she was betrothed to Kari and the day for the wedding-feast was fixed, and the feast was held half a month before
mid-summer, and they were that winter with Njal.
Then Kari bought him land at Dyrholms, east away by Mydale, and
set up a farm there; they put in there a grieve and housekeeper
to see after the farm, but they themselves were ever with Njal.
90. THE QUARREL OF NJAL’S SONS WITH THRAIN SIGFUS’ SON
