CHAPTER XVIII. MEN RIDE TO THE THING

AFTER this Howard and his fellows went their ways with Atli, and came to Otterdale, and there Atli welcomed Howard with both hands. Nought lacked there that they needed, and Atli made them the most goodly feast : there were ten stout men there now. Atli cleared out the store-house, and made their beds there, and hung up their weapons, and all was arrayed in the best wise.

But Steinthor summoned men to him, and lacked neither for friends nor kin, and with great men also was he allied : so he rode to the Thing with three hundred men, all which were his Thingmen, kin, friends, or men allied to him.

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