CHAPTER LXXI.
THE SLAYING OF THORGEIR OTKELL'S SON.
That token happened as Gunnar and his brother rode up towards Rangriver, that much blood burst out on the bill.
Kolskegg asked what that might mean.
Gunnar says, "If such tokens took place in other lands, it was called 'wound-drops,' and Master Oliver told me also that this only happened before great fights".
So they rode on till they saw men sitting by the river on the other side, and they had tethered their horses.
Gunnar said, "Now we have an ambush".
Kolskegg answered, "Long have they been faithless; but what is best to be done now?"
"We will gallop up alongside them to the ford," says Gunnar, "and there make ready for them."