Armod leapt up and ran out; Egil continued to drink for a while, as did some others in the hall; but
there was little merriment. Soon Egil and his men stood up, and took their weapons from the wall
where they had hung them up; they then went to the granary in which their horse were, and laid
themselves down in the straw, and slept through the night.

Chapter 75 - Parting of Egil and Armod.
Egil rose up in the morning as soon as it was day. He and his made them ready, and when ready went
at once to the house to seek Armod. And when they came to the apartments where slept Armod and his
wife and daughter, then Egil burst open the door and approached Armod’s bed. He then drew his
sword, but with the other hand grasped the beard of Armod, and forced him forward to the edge of the
bed. But Armod’s wife and daughter leapt up and prayed Egil not to slay Armod. Egil said he would
spare him for their sakes; ’For,’ said he, ’this is but meet; yet has he deserved to die.’

After this Egil cut off his beard close to his chin, and put out one of his eyes. Then he went out to his
companions.

They went on their way and came a day-meal-time to the house of Thorfinn. He dwelt by Eida-wood.
Of him they craved a day-meal and to bait their horses. Thorfinn granted this, and Egil with his men
went into the hall. Egil asked if Thorfinn had seen anything of the rest of his party.

’We appointed,’ he said, ’to meet here.’

Thorfinn said: ’Here passed six men together a little before day; and they were well armed.’

Then said a house-carle: ’I was driving a sledge in the night to fetch wood, and I came upon six men
on the road; they were house-carles of Armod; but that was long before day. Now I am not sure
whether these will be the same as the six of whom you spoke.’

Thorfinn said that the six men whom he had met had passed after the house-carle came back with the
load of wood.

While they sat at meat Egil saw that a woman lay sick on the daïs at the ends of the hall. He asked who
was that woman in such sad case. Thorfinn said she was named Helga, and was his daughter; she had
long been ill; her complaint was a pining sickness; she got no sleep at night, and was as one possessed.

’Has anything,’ asked Egil, ’been tried for her ailment?’

’Runes have been graven,’ said Thorfinn; ’a landowner’s son hard by did this; and she is since much
worse than before. But can you, Egil, do anything for such ailments?’

Egil said: ’Maybe no harm will be done by my taking it in hand.’