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Updated: September 13, 2025
He knew that if he could once get rid of him, he had little to fear from any of the others; and as he thought hard for a plan, the king, who had for some time been fast asleep, suddenly solved the difficulty. He woke with a start, saw that the drink was coming to an end, and cried with drunken ardour, "More ale, more ale, Thorar! Estein drinks not!"
I learned of the plot to treacherously entrap thy force, and though I have long lived out of Norway my Norse blood boiled within me." "Could you not have warned us sooner?" said Estein. "Thorar kept his plans secret so long that it was too late to do aught save what I have done. I sent Jomar to the feast, as thou knowest."
Though," he added, with a grave smile, "if men speak truth, Estein Hakonson can make good his coming or going against most." "Be it as you will," replied Estein; "but if " He paused, and looked sternly at Thorar. "If a king's word and mine are not sufficient, and my only sons satisfy you not, I can but add my oath though most men would deem it needless."
Thorar glanced round and saw that no one but himself was capable of going on the errand. Twice he called aloud on servants by their names, but there came no answer. Then with a frown he rose and walked down the hall. The high table at which they sat was lit by two great torches set on stands.
"I know not his name, but treachery, he said, was determined; and I stopped all drink thereafter, and there was nothing at all left then but to play with dice and sleep. A little later this Thorar came to the town, and would have persuaded me to follow you to the king; and when I asked for some token he showed me a ring he said was yours.
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