In the later days of Hacon the Great Egil Skallagrim’s son was in his ninth decade of years, and save
for his blindness was a hale and hearty man. One summer, when men made ready to go to the Thing,
Egil asked Grim that he might ride with him to the Thing. Grim was slow to grant this. And when
Grim and Thordis talked together, Grim told her what Egil had asked. ’I would like you,’ said he, ’to
find out what lies under this request.’ Thordis then went to talk with Egil her uncle: it was Egil’s chief
pleasure to talk to her. And when she met him she asked: ’Is it true, uncle, that you wish to ride to the
Thing? I want you to tell me what plan you have in this?’ ’I will tell you,’ said he, ’what I have
thought of. I mean to take with me to the Thing two chests that king Athelstan gave me, each of which
is full of English silver. I mean to have these chests carried to the Hill of Laws just when it is most
crowded. Then I mean to sow broadcast the silver, and I shall be surprized if all share it fairly between
them. Kicks, I fancy, there will be and blows; nay, it may end in a general fight of all the assembled
Thing.’ Thordis said: ’A famous plan, methinks, is this, and it will be remembered so long as Iceland
is inhabited.’

After this Thordis went to speak with Grim and told him Egil’s plan. ’That shall never be,’ said he,
’that he carry this out, such monstrous folly.’ And when Egil came to speak with Grim of their going
to the Thing, Grim talked him out of it all; and Egil sat at home during the Thing. But he did not like
it, and he wore a frowning look.

At Moss-fell were the summer-sheds of the milch kine, and during the Thing-time Thordis was at the
sheds. It chanced one evening, when the household at Moss-fell were preparing to go to bed, that Egil
called to him two thralls of Grim’s. He bade them bring him a horse. ’I will go to the warm bath, and
you shall go with me,’ said he. And when Egil was ready, he went out, and he had with him his chests
of silver. He mounted the horse. They then went down through the home paddock and under the slope
there, as men saw afterwards. But in the morning, when men rose, they saw Egil wandering about in
the holt east of the farm, and leading the horse after him. They went to him, and brought him home.
But neither thralls nor chests ever came back again, and many are the guesses as to where Egil hid his
money. East of the farm at Moss-fell is a gill coming down from the fell: and it is noteworthy that in
rapid thaws there was a great rush of water there, but after the water has fallen there have been found
in the gill English pennies. Some guess that Egil must have hidden his money there. Below the farm
enclosure at Moss-fell are bogs wide and very deep. Many feel sure that ’tis there Egil hid his money.
And south of the river are hot springs, and hard by there large earthholes, and some men guess that
Egil must have hidden his money there, because out that way cairn-fires were often seen to hover. Egil
said that he had slain Grim’s thralls, also that he had hidden the chests, but where he had hidden them
he told no man.

In the autumn following Egil fell sick of the sickness whereof he died. When he was dead, then Grim
had Egil dressed in goodly raiment, and carried down to Tjalda-ness; there a sepulchral mound was
made, and in it was Egil laid with his weapons and his raiment.