“There are few men like Kari,” said Flosi, “and I would that my
mind were shapen altogether like his.”
Hall and Kol stayed there some while, and afterwards they rode
west at the time agreed on to the meeting for atonement, and met
at Headbrink, as had been settled between them.
Then Thorgeir came to meet them from the west, and then they
talked over their atonement, and all went off as Hall had said.
Before the atonement, Thorgeir said that Kari should still have
the right to be at his house all the same if he chose.
“And neither side shall do the others any harm at my house; and I
will not have the trouble of gathering in the fines from each of
the burners; but my will is that Flosi alone shall be answerable
for them to me, but he must get them in from his followers. My
will also is that all that award which was made at the Thing
about the burning shall be kept and held to; and my will also is,
Flosi, that thou payest me up my third share in unclipped coin.”
Flosi went quickly into all these terms.
Thorgeir neither gave up the banishment nor the outlawry.
Now Flosi and Hall rode home east, and then Hall said to Flosi,
“Keep this atonement well, son-in-law, both as to going abroad
and the pilgrimage to Rome (1), and the fines, and then thou wilt
be thought a brave man, though thou hast stumbled into this
misdeed, if thou fulfillest handsomely all that belongs to it.”
Flosi said it should be so.
Now Hall rode home east, but Flosi rode home to Swinefell, and
was at home afterwards.
ENDNOTES:
(1) “Pilgrimage to Rome.” This condition had not been mentioned
before.
147. KARI COMES TO BJORN’S HOUSE IN THE MARK
Thorgeir Craggeir rode home from the peace meeting, and Kari
asked whether the atonement had come about. Thorgeir said that
they now fully atoned.
Then Kari took his horse and was for riding away.
“Thou hast no need to ride away,” says Thorgeir, “for it was laid
down in our atonement that thou shouldst be here as before if
thou chosest.”
“It shall not be so, cousin, for as soon as ever I slay a man
they will be sure to say that thou wert in the plot with me, and
I will not have that! But I wish this, that thou wouldst let me
hand over in trust to thee my goods, and the estates of me and my
wife Helga Njal’s daughter, and my three daughters, and then they
will not be seized by those adversaries of mine.”
Thorgeir agreed to what Kari wished to ask of him, and then
Thorgeir had Kari’s goods handed over to him in trust.
After that Kari rode away. He had two horses and his weapons and
outer clothing, and some ready money in gold and silver.
Now Kari rode west by Selialandsmull and up along Markfleet, and
so on up into Thorsmark. There there are three farms all called
