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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1891 edition. Extrait: ...thou clearly to what pass things are come?" Odd said he knew of what had come to pass. Ufeig said: "More will come of it, meseemeth, because six other chieftains of the greatest have joined themselves to them." "Great strength they seem to need against me," quoth Odd. Said Ufeig: "What will thy rede be now?" "What," said Odd, "save to ride to the Thing and seek aid." Ufeig answers: " It seemeth to me nought hopeful, in such a plight as things now are, to stake our honour on having the greater number of folk." "What is to be done then?" said Odd. Ufeig says: "My rede it is that thou array thy ship while the Thing is toward, and be ready with all thy loose goods, and have them aboard by then men ride from the Thing. And now which of thy money deemest thou gone a worser road, that which these shall take from thee, or that which I shall have?" "Well, that is something saved out of the fire that cometh to thee," saith Odd; and therewith he giveth his father a heavy purse of silver, and they part. Odd arrays his ship, and gets men thereto: and so weareth time toward the Thing. But these plots went on privily, so that few heard thereof. CHAPTER IX. OF UFEIG AND THE BANDED MEN. NOW ride the chieftains to the Thing, and many are with them: goodman Ufeig was of Styrmir's company. The Banded Men bespoke a meeting of them on Bluewoodheath, and these met there, Egil, Styrmir, Hermund, and Thorarin; and now they ride all in a company down to the Thing-mead. But these ride from the east, Skeggbroddi and Thorgeir Haldorason of Bathdale; and from the north Jarnskeggi; and they meet by Reydarmuli, and all the companies of them together ride down into the Meads, and so to the Thing. There turns all the..."