When the young, fell-creeping lad
At his hands a choking had."
Bardi said that certes it was a matter to be borne with, if he had had to avenge himself.
"Now I will settle matters between you," quoth Bardi; "I will that ye part, leaving things as they are, that thereby there may be an end of all between you."
This they let hold good, but Grettir took ill liking to Bardi and his brothers.
Now they all rode off, and when they were somewhat on their way, Grettir spake—
"I have heard that thou hast will to go to Burgfirth[86] this summer, and I now offer to go south with thee; and methinks that herein I do for thee more than thou art worthy of."
Hereat was Bardi glad, and speedily said yea thereto, and bade him have thanks for this; and thereupon they parted. But a little after Bardi came back and said—
"I will have it known that thou goest not unless my foster-father Thorarin will have it so, for he shall have all the rule of the faring."
"Well mightest thou, methinks, have full freedom as to thine own redes," said Grettir, "and my faring I will not have laid under the choice of other folk; and I shall mislike it if thou easiest me aside from thy fellowship."