Mord said so it should be. "But now this is my counsel, that thou, Thorgeir Otkell's son shouldest beguile Ormilda, Gunnar's kinswoman; but Gunnar will let his displeasure grow against thee at that, and then I will spread that story abroad that Gunnar will not suffer thee to do such things. Then ye two shall some time after make an attack on Gunnar, but still ye must not seek him at home, for there is no thinking of that while the hound is alive." So they settled this plan among them that it should be brought about. Thorgeir began to turn his steps towards Ormilda, and Gunnar thought that ill, and great dislike arose between them. So the winter wore away. Now comes the summer, and their secret meetings went on oftener than before. As for Thorgeir of the Threecorner and Mord, they were always meeting; and they plan an onslaught on Gunnar when he rides down to the isles to see after the work done by his house-caries. One day Mord was ware of it when Gunnar rode down to the isles, and sent a man off under the Threecorner to tell Thorgeir that then would be the likeliest time to try to fall on Gunnar. They bestirred them at once, and fare thence twelve together, but when they came to Kirkby there they found thirteen men waiting for them. Then they made up their minds to ride down to Rangriver and lie in wait there for Gunnar. But when Gunnar rode up from the isles, Kolskegg rode with him. Gunnar had his bow and his arrows and his bill. Kolskegg had his short sword and weapons to match. 71. THE SLAYING OF THORGEIR OTKELL'S SON That token happened as Gunnar and his brother rode up towards Rangriver, that much blood burst out on the bill. Kolskegg asked what that might mean. Gunnar says, "If such tokens took place in other lands, it was called `wound-drops,' and Master Oliver told me also that this only happened before great fights." So they rode on till they saw men sitting by the river on the other side, and they had tethered their horses. Gunnar said, "Now we have an ambush." Kolskegg answered, "Long have they been faithless; but what is best to be done now?" "We will gallop up alongside them to the ford," says Gunnar, "and there make ready for them." The others saw that and turned at once towards them. Gunnar strings his bow, and takes his arrows and throws them on the ground before him, and shoots as soon as ever they come within shot; by that Gunnar wounded many men, but some he slew. Then Thorgeir Otkell's son spoke and said, "This is no use; let us make for him as hard as we can." They did so, and first went Aunund the Fair, Thorgeir's kinsman. Gunnar hurled the bill at him, and it fell on his shield and clove it in twain, but the bill rushed through Aunund. Augmund Shockhead rushed at Gunnar behind his back. Kolskegg saw that and cut off at once both Augmund's legs from under him, and hurled him out into Rangriver, and he was drowned there and then.