forward all my proofs in due form, and utter them faithfully so
long as I am in this suit.”
After that he spoke in these words, “I have called Thorodd as my
first witness, and Thorbjorn as my second; I have called them to
bear witness that I gave notice of an assault laid down by law
against Flosi Thord’s son, on that spot where he, Flosi Thord’s
son, rushed with an assault laid down by law on Helgi Njal’s son,
when Flosi Thord’s son 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 to be 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 spoke again, “I have called Thorodd as my first
witness, and Thorbjorn as my second. I have called them to bear
witness that I gave notice of a suit against 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 to be 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
