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."
The others saw that and turned at once towards them.
Gunnar strings his bow, and takes his arrows and throws them on the ground before him, and shoots as soon as ever they come within shot; by that Gunnar wounded many men, but some he slew.
Then Thorgeir Otkell's son spoke and said, "This is no use; let us make for him as hard as we can."