"What course is to be taken now?"
"As thou no doubt hast already made up thy mind—to make the best of the business for both sides."
"Now we will let Skamkell tell his tale a second time, and see how he repeats it."
So they did that, and Gizur said—
"Thou must have told this story right; but still I have seen thee to be the wickedest of men, and there is no faith in faces if thou turnest out well."
Skamkell fared home, and rides first to Kirkby and calls Otkell out. He greets Skamkell well, and Skamkell brought him the greeting of Gizur and Geir.
"But about this matter of the suit," he says, "there is no need to speak softly, how that it is the will of both Gizur and Geir that this suit should not be settled in a friendly way. They gave that counsel that a summons should be set on foot, and that Gunnar should be summoned for having partaken of the goods, but Hallgerda for stealing them."
"It shall be done," said Otkell, "in everything as they have given counsel."
"They thought most of this," says Skamkell, "that thou hadst behaved so proudly; but as for me, I made as great a man of thee in everything as I could."
Now Otkell tells all this to his brothers, and Hallbjorn said—