is now called Grimsdale.  Thorliek said, “I have heard you spoken of as being no small man.”  Eldgrim said, “My errand here is that I want to buy from you the stud-horses, those valuable ones that Kotkell gave you last summer.”  Thorliek answered, “The horses are not for sale.”  Eldgrim said, “I will offer you equally many stud-horses for them and some other things thrown in, and many would say that I offer you twice as much as the horses are worth.”  Thorliek said, “I am no haggler, but these horses you will never have, not even though you offer three times their worth.”  Eldgrim said, “I take it to be no lie that you are proud and self-willed, and I should, indeed, like to see you getting a somewhat less handsome price for them than I have now offered you, and that you should have to let the horses go none the less.”  Thorliek got angered at these words, and said, “You need, Eldgrim, to come to closer quarters if you mean to frighten out me the horses.”  Eldgrim said, “You think it unlikely that you will be beaten by me, but this summer I shall go and see the horses, and we will see which of us will own them after that.”  Thorliek said, “Do as you like, but bring up no odds against me.”  Then they dropped their talk.  The man who heard this said that for this sort of dealing together here were two just fitting matches for each other.  After that people went home from the Thing, and nothing happened to tell tidings of. [Sidenote:  Hrut meets with Eldgrim] It happened one morning early that a man looked out at Hrutstead at goodman Hrut’s, Herjolf’s son’s, and when he came in Hrut asked what news he brought.  He said he had no other tidings to tell save that he saw a man riding from beyond Vadlar towards where Thorliek’s horses were, and that the man got off his horse and took the horses.  Hrut asked where the horses were then, and the house-carle replied, “Oh, they have stuck well to their pasture, for they stood as usual in your meadows down below the fence-wall.”  Hrut replied, “Verily, Thorliek, my kinsman, is not particular as to where he grazes his beasts; and I still think it more likely that it is not by his order that the horses are driven away.”  Then Hrut sprang up in his shirt and linen breeches, and cast over him a grey cloak and took in his hand his gold inlaid halberd that King Harald had given him.  He went out quickly and saw where a man was riding after horses down below the wall.  Hrut went to meet him, and saw that it was Eldgrim driving the horses.  Hrut greeted him, and Eldgrim returned his greeting, but rather slowly. [Sidenote:  Hrut takes Thorliek’s part] Hrut asked him why he was driving the horses.  Eldgrim replied, “I will not hide it from you, though I know what kinship there is between you and Thorliek; but I tell you I have come after these horses, meaning that he shall never have them again.  I have also kept what I promised him at the Thing, that I have not gone after the horses with any great company.”  Hrut said, “That is no deed