CHAPTER XXXVII. BARDI S ABIDING WITH GUDMUND. — The Story of the Ere-Dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga), with the Story of the Heath-Slayings (tr. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1892))

So Eyolf dights him for the journey, and goes with five-and-twenty horses to meet them, and happens on them on Galmastrand. He greets them well, and bids them go home with him, by the will of his father.

They did so, and there they had to themselves the second bench throughout the winter ; and Gudmund was cheery to them, and did to them after the fashion of a great man and well. And that was widely rumoured.

Einar, the son of Jarnskeggi, often bids them go

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to his house and stay with him. And thus now they are right happy.

Now we have to bring to mind, that it was Thorarin's rede that with Bardi there were men who were of great worth and had much to fall back upon. And they now sent to the west for their moneys, being still bent on faring abroad in the summer.