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The Lawman declared that no man could be outlawed for longer than twenty years in all, even though he committed an outlaw's acts during that time. But before that he would allow no man to be freed. Thus the endeavour to remove his sentence broke down for the moment, but there seemed a certainty of his being freed in the following summer.
Then he saluted the King and went out. Other men brought their complaints before the King, and he sat long time over men's suits. But when the King came to table he asked where was lawman Emund. He was told that he was at home in his lodging. Then said the King: 'Go after him, he shall be my guest to-day.
Thorgils went to the court and offered weregild for the slaying, if thereby Thorgeir might become free of guilt; he put forth for defence in the suit whether they had not free catch on all common foreshores. The lawman was asked if this was a lawful defence. Skapti was the lawman, and backed Asmund for the sake of their kinship.
"You have named me, Estein," replied the wounded lawman. "I had hoped to witness thy death, now thou canst witness mine." "Treacherous foe and faithless friend," said Estein, sternly, "well have you deserved this death." "Faithless to whom?" replied Thorar. "To my king and master Bue I alone owed allegiance.
From the above account of the matter, it appears that Earl John, who was responsible for law and order in Caithness at the time, although invited by Rafn the Lawman to intervene, and although he was on the spot, did nothing, saying "he could give no advice" and "that he thought it concerned him very little," and adding that "two bad things were before them, that it was unbearable" and that "he could suggest no other choice," that is, but to pay the bishop's tithes, however exorbitant, or not pay them, or possibly to make an end of him.
Now, men go up to the Lögberg, and there came Ospakar, though he was not yet healed of his wound, and all his company, and laid their suits against Eric by the mouth of Gizur the Lawman, Ospakar's son.
It was even so. The lawman had gone to his last account, his bolt impotently shot, and his enemies standing triumphantly over him. "He at least died well," said Helgi; "when my turn comes may it be my luck to look as proudly on my foes. But tell us, Ketill, what befell you here since our parting."
"Close in, you cowards!" he yells, "close in and cut them down!" but no man stirs. Then Eric mocks them. "There are but two of us," he says, "will no man try a game with me? Let it not be sung that twenty were overcome of two." Now Ospakar's son Mord hears, and he grows mad with rage. He holds his shield aloft and rushes on. But Gizur the Lawman does not come, for Gizur was a coward.
He consulted many men of experience as to what he should do, but nobody gave him any advice which was of any use. Thorhall had good horses, and went every summer to the Thing. On one occasion at the All-Thing he went to the booth of the Lawman Skapti the son of Thorodd, who was a man of great knowledge and gave good counsel to those who consulted him.
A moment's reflection assured him that it was out of the question, but, to convince himself, he went forward and joined the lawman. "Is it far to King Bue's hall?" he asked. "The marshes are firm and frozen, and the snow lies nowhere very deep. We should reach it by nightfall." Helgi laughed, and said,
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