CHAPTER CL.
MORE OF KARI AND BJORN.
Then Kari asked Bjorn—
"What counsel shall we take now? Now I will try what thy wit is worth."
"Dost thou think now," answered Bjorn, "that much lies on our being as wise as ever we can?"
"Ay," said Kari, "I think so surely."
"Then our counsel is soon taken," says Bjorn. "We will cheat them all as though they were giants; and now we will make as though we were riding north on the fell, but as soon as ever we are out of sight behind the brae, we will turn down along Skaptarwater, and hide us there where we think handiest, so long as the hue and cry is hottest, if they ride after us."
"So will we do," said Kari; "and this I had meant to do all along."
"And so you may put it to the proof," said Bjorn, "that I am no more of an everyday body in wit than I am in bravery."