"Baggage, that thou art," he says, "thou art always chattering," and so he lay still in-doors while they fought.
Gunnar and Kolskegg rode home after this work, and they rode hard up along the river bank, and Gunnar leapt off his horse and came down on his feet.
Then Kolskegg said, "Hard now thou ridest, brother!"
"Ay," said Gunnar, "that was what Skamkell said when he uttered those very words when they rode over me."
"Well, thou hast avenged that now," says Kolskegg.
"I would like to know," says Gunnar, "whether I am by so much the less brisk and bold than other men, because I think more of killing men than they?"
ENDNOTES:
(1) This shews that the shields were oblong, running down to a point.
55. NJAL'S ADVICE TO GUNNAR
Now those tidings are heard far and wide, and many said that they thought they had not happened before it was likely. Gunnar rode to Bergthorsknoll and told Njal of these deeds.