"Then Hrut will ask, `Dost thou not think it was some disgrace to him when he could not get back his goods, though he set the suit on foot?'
"`I can answer thee that well enough,' thou must say. `Thou challengedst him to single combat; but he was old, and so his friends advised him not to fight with thee, and then they let the suit fall to the ground.'
"`True enough,' Hrut will say. `I said so, and that passed for law among foolish men; but the suit might have been taken up again at another Thing if he had the heart.'
"`I know all that,' thou must say.
"Then he will ask, `Dost thou know anything about law?'
"`Up in the North I am thought to know something about it,' thou shalt say. `But still I should like thee to tell me how this suit should be taken up.'
"`What suit dost thou mean?' he will ask.
"`A suit,' thou must answer, `which does not concern me. I want to know how a man must set to work who wishes to get back Unna's dower.'
"Then Hrut will say, `In this suit I must be summoned so that I can hear the summons, or I must be summoned here in my lawful house.'
"`Recite the summons, then,' thou must say, 'and I will say it after thee.'