"Did ye call any men to witness of those words?" says Njal.
"We called none," says Skarphedinn; "we do not mean to follow that suit up except on the battlefield."
"No one will now think," says Bergthora, "that ye have the heart to lift your weapons."
"Spare thy tongue, mistress!" says Kari, "in egging on thy sons, for they will be quite eager enough."
After that they all talk long in secret, Njal and his sons, and Kari Solmund's son, their brother-in-law.
CHAPTER XCI.
THRAIN SIGFUS' SON'S SLAYING.
Now there was great talk about this quarrel of theirs, and all seemed to know that it would not settle down peacefully.
Runolf, the son of Wolf Aurpriest, east in the Dale, was a great friend of Thrain's, and had asked Thrain to come and see him, and it was settled that he should come east when about three weeks or a month were wanting to winter.