Egil's Saga
Chapter 76
CHAPTER LXXVI.
Egil comes to landowner Alf.
Egil
said to his comrades that he would go on his way and abide no longer.
Thorfinn had a son named Helgi, a valiant man. Father and son offered
Egil their company through the wood. They said they knew for a fact that
Armod Beard had put six men into the wood to lie in wait for them, and
it was likely that there would be more ambushed in the wood in case the
first should fail. There were with Thorfinn four that offered to go. Then
Egil sang a stave:
'If
four with me follow,
Thou
findest not six men
With
us bloody sword-blows
To
barter in fight.
And
if he with eight go,
Undaunted
in courage
On
twelve black-browed Egil
The
battle will dare.'
Thorfinn and his men decided to go into the wood with Egil: thus they
were eight in all. And when they came where the ambush was set, they saw
men there. But these house-carles of Armod who were in ambush, on seeing
that the travellers were eight in number, thought they were overmatched,
and hid them away in the wood. And when Egil's party came where the liers-in-wait
had been, they saw that all was not peaceful. And now Egil said that Thorfinn
and his men should go back, but they offered to go further. However Egil
would not have it, and bade them go home; so they did so and turned back.
But Egil and his men
went on forward, being now four. And as the day wore on they perceived
that there were six men in the wood, and they were pretty sure that these
also were house-carles of Armod. Up leapt the liers-in-wait and made at
them, and they met their charge: and the encounter ended in Egil's slaying
two and the rest running back into the wood.
Then Egil's company went
on their way, and nothing more happened till they got out of the wood
and found lodging near the wood with a landowner named Alf, who was called
Alf the wealthy. He was an old man, wealthy in money, of a strange temper,
so that he could keep but few in his household. A good reception Egil
found there, and with him Alf was talkative. Egil asked many questions,
and Alf told him what he asked. They spoke much about the earl and the
king of Norway's messengers, who had before gone eastward to gather the
tribute. Alf in his talk was no friend to the earl.
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