"Ill was it that we were not out of doors; they should have come here on the most shameful journey, if we had been by."
"Everything bides its time," says Gunnar; "but this journey will not turn out to their honour."
A little after Gunnar went and told Njal.
"Let it not worry thee a jot," said Njal, "for this will be the greatest honour to thee, ere this Thing comes to an end. As for us, we will all back thee with counsel and force."
Gunnar thanked him and rode home.
Otkell rides to the Thing, and his brothers with him and Skamkell.
CHAPTER LI.
OF GUNNAR.
Gunnar rode to the Thing and all the sons of Sigfus; Njal and his sons too, they all went with Gunnar; and it was said that no band was so well knit and hardy as theirs.