After this Steinar made over the cause to Aunund to prosecute or compromise according to law. And
no sooner had Aunund the management of this cause, than he went to seek the father and son,
Thorstein and Egil. Then said Aunund: ’Now I will, Egil, that you alone shape and shear in this matter
as you will, for I trust you best to deal with this my cause as with all others.’

Then Thorstein and Aunund took hands, and named them witnesses, declaring withal that Egil
Skallagrimsson should along judge this cause, as he would, without appeal, then and there at the
Thing. And so ended this suit.

Now men went home to their booths. Thorstein had three oxen led to Egil’s booth and slaughtered for
the Thing banquet.

And when Tongue-Odd and Steinar came home to their booth, Odd said: ’Now have you, Steinar, and
your father ruled the issue of your suit. I now declare myself free of debt to you, Steinar, in regard of
that help which I promised you; for it was agreed between us that I should help you in carrying
through your suit, or to such issue as should content you; free am I, I say, whatever may be the terms
adjudged you by Egil.’ Steinar said that Odd had helped him well and manfully, and their friendship
should be closer than before. ’I pronounce you,’ he said, ’free of debt to me in regard of that whereto
you were bound.’

In the evening the judges went out; but nothing happened that needs to be told.

Chapter 87 - Of Egil and Aunund Sjoni.
The next day Egil Skallagrimsson went to the Thing-brink, and with him Thorstein and all their party.
Thither came also Aunund and Steinar, Tongue-Odd and Einar, and company. And when the law
pleadings were finished, then stood up Egil and spoke thus: ’Are Steinar and Aunund, father and son,
present, so that they can hear my words?’ Aunund answered that they were.

’Then will I,’ said Egil, ’deliver my judgment between Steinar and Thorstein. I begin the cause with
this: Grim my father came to this island, and took to him here all the land of Myrar and the district
round about, and chose him a homestead at Borg, and assigned a parcel of land thereto, but gave to his
friends choice of land outside that same, in which they have since settled. To Ani he gave a homestead
at Anabrekka, where Aunund and Steinar have hitherto dwelt. We all know this, Steinar, what are the
landmarks between Borg and Anabrekka, that the chief one is Hafs-brook. Now therefore not from
ignorance, Steinar, did you act in grazing on Thorstein’s land, for you, Steinar, and you, Aunund,
might know that Ani received the land of my father Grim: but you encroached on his land, thinking
that he would be so degenerate as tamely to submit to your robbery. But Thorstein slew two thralls of
yours. Now it is evident to all that these died for their ill-deeds, and are therefore unatonable, nay,
even had they been free men, yet had they been unatonable, no fine could have been claimed for them.
But as for you, Steinar, seeing that you devised to rob my son Thorstein of his property which he took
with my authority, and I took by inheritance after my father, you shall therefore lose your land at
Anabrekka, and have no payment for the same. And further, you shall have neither homestead nor
lodgment here in the district south of Long-river. And you must quit Anabrekka before flitting days
are past; else may you, immediately after flitting days, be slain with impunity by any who wish to help
Thorstein, if you refuse to go away or break any of these terms that I have pronounced for you.’

But when Egil sat down, then Thorstein named witnesses to his decision.