"Just what I looked for," said Njal.
Wolf Aurpriest got wind of this plan, and told Gizur, and Gizur said to Otkell, "Who gave thee that counsel that thou shouldst summon Gunnar?"
"Skamkell told me that was the counsel of both Geir the Priest and thyself."
"But where is that scoundrel?" says Gizur, "who has thus lied."
"He lies sick up at our booth," says Otkell.
"May he never rise from his bed," says Gizur. "Now we must all go to see Gunnar, and offer him the right to make his own award; but I know not whether he will take that now."
Many men spoke ill of Skamkell, and he lay sick all through the
Thing.
Gizur and his friends went to Gunnar's booth; their coming was known, and Gunnar was told as he sat in his booth, and then they all went out and stood in array.
Gizur the White came first, and after a while he spoke and said, "This is our offer — that thou, Gunnar, makest thine own award in this suit."
"Then," says Gunnar, "it was no doubt far from thy counsel that I was summoned."