Then they sought for a hiding-place, and spread moss over themselves, and so lay for a while, but not for long, ere Flosi spoke and said—
"We will not lie here any longer until the landsmen are ware of us."
Then they arose, and took counsel, and then Flosi said to his men—
"We will go all of us and give ourselves up to the Earl; for there is naught else to do, and the Earl has our lives at his pleasure if he chooses to seek for them."
Then they all went away thence, and Flosi said that they must tell no man any tidings of their voyage, or what manner of men they were, before he told them to the Earl.
Then they walked on until they met men who showed them to the town, and then they went in before the Earl, and Flosi and all the others hailed him.
The Earl asked what men they might be, and Flosi told his name, and said out of what part of Iceland he was.
The Earl had already heard of the Burning, and so he knew the men at once, and then the Earl asked Flosi—"What hast thou to tell me about Helgi Njal's son, my henchman?"
"This," said Flosi, "that I hewed off his head."
"Take them all," said the Earl.