Then Ingialld plucked the spear out of the wound, and said to Flosi, "Now bide thou, if thou art not a milksop." Then he launched the spear back over the river. Flosi sees that the spear is coming straight for his middle, and then he backs his horse out of the way, but the spear flew in front of Flosi's horse, and missed him, but it struck Thorstein's middle, and down he fell at once dead off his horse. Now Ingialld runs for the wood, and they could not get at him. Then Flosi said to his men, "Now have we gotten manscathe, and now we may know, when such things befall us, into what a luckless state we have got. Now it is my counsel that we ride up to Threecorner Ridge; thence we shall be able to see where men ride all over the country, for by this time they will have gathered together a great band, and they will think that we have ridden east to Fleetlithe from Threecorner Ridge; and thence they will think that we are riding north up on the fell, and so east to our own country, and thither the greater part of the folk will ride after us; but some will ride the coast road east to Selialandsmull, and yet they will think there is less hope of finding us thitherward, but I will now take counsel for all of us, and my plan is to ride up into Threecorner-fell, and bide there till three suns have risen and set in heaven." ENDNOTES: (1) "Son of Gollnir," Njal, who was the son of Thorgeir Gelling or Gollnir. (2) "My friends," ironically of course. 130. OF KARI SOLMUND'S SON Now it is to be told of Kari Solmund's son that he fared away from that hollow in which he had rested himself until he met Bard, and those words passed between them which Geirmund had told. Thence Kari rode to Mord, and told him the tidings, and he was greatly grieved. Kari said there were other things more befitting a man than to weep for them dead, and bade him rather gather folk and come to Holtford. After that he rode into Thurso-dale to Hjallti Skeggi's son, and as he went along Thurso water, he sees a man riding fast behind him. Kari waited for the man, and knows that he was Ingialld of the Springs. He sees that he is very bloody about the thigh; and Kari asked Ingialld who had wounded him, and he told him. "Where met ye two?" says Kari. "By Rangwater side," says Ingialld, "and he threw a spear over at me." "Didst thou aught for it?" asks Kari. "I threw the spear back," says Ingialld, "and they said that it met a man, and he was dead at once." "Knowest thou not," said Kari, "who the man was?" "Methought he was like Thorstein Flosi's brother's son," says Ingialld. "Good luck go with thy hand," says Kari. After that they rode both together to see Hjallti Skeggi's son, and told him the tidings. He took these deeds ill, and said there was the greatest need to ride after them and slay them all.