some sort of relation to Thorolf, and on that account he turned towards that house.  Thorolf had also heard before how matters stood there, and how Vigdis was endowed with a good deal more courage than Thord, her husband.  And forthwith the same evening that Thorolf came to Goddistead he went to Vigdis to tell her his trouble, and to beg her help.  Vigdis answered his pleading in this way:  “I do not deny our relationship, and in this way alone I can look upon the deed you have done, that I deem you in no way the worser man for it.  Yet this I see, that those who shelter you will thereby have at stake their lives and means, seeing what great men they are who will be taking up the blood-suit.  And Thord,” she said, “my husband, is not much of a warrior; but the counsels of us women are mostly guided by little foresight if anything is wanted.  Yet I am loath to keep aloof from you altogether, seeing that, though I am but a woman, you have set your heart on finding some shelter here.”  After that Vigdis led him to an outhouse, and told him to wait for her there, and put a lock on the door.  Then she went to Thord, and said, “A man has come here as a guest, named Thorolf.  He is some sort of relation of mine, and I think he will need to dwell here some long time if you will allow it.”  Thord said he could not away with men coming to put up at his house, but bade him rest there over the next day if he had no trouble on hand, but otherwise he should be off at his swiftest. [Sidenote:  Vigdis takes in Thorolf] Vigdis answered, “I have offered him already to stay on, and I cannot take back my word, though he be not in even friendship with all men.”  After that she told Thord of the slaying of Hall, and that Thorolf who was come there was the man who had killed him.  Thord was very cross-grained at this, and said he well knew how that Ingjald would take a great deal of money from him for the sheltering that had been given him already, seeing that doors here have been locked after this man.  Vigdis answered, “Ingjald shall take none of your money for giving one night’s shelter to Thorolf, and he shall remain here all this winter through.”  Thord said, “In this manner you can checkmate me most thoroughly, but it is against my wish that a man of such evil luck should stay here.”  Still Thorolf stayed there all the winter.  Ingjald, who had to take up the blood-suit for his brother, heard this, and so arrayed him for a journey into the Dales at the end of the winter, and ran out a ferry of his whereon they went twelve together.  They sailed from the west with a sharp north-west wind, and landed in Salmon-river-Mouth in the evening.  They put up their ferry-boat, and came to Goddistead in the evening, arriving there not unawares, and were cheerfully welcomed.  Ingjald took Thord aside for a talk with him, and told him his errand, and said he had heard of Thorolf, the slayer of his brother, being there. [Sidenote:  Ingjald’s bargain with Thord] Thord said there was no truth in that.