Then Thrain said, "Now this will be thy best hiding place, to knock out the bottoms of two casks, and then thou shalt get into them."
So it was done, and he got into the casks, and then they were lashed together, and lowered overboard.
Then comes the earl with his band to Njal's sons, and asked if
Hrapp had come there.
They said that he had come.
The earl asked whither he had gone thence?
They said they had not kept eyes on him, and could not say.
"He," said the earl, "should have great honour from me who would tell me where Hrapp was."
Then Grim said softly to Helgi, "Why should we not say, What know
I whether Thrain will repay us with any good?"
"We should not tell a whit more for that," says Helgi, "when his life lies at stake."
"May be," said Grim, "the earl will turn his vengeance on us, for he is so wroth that some one will have to fall before him."