Now these tidings come to the Thing, and Njal made them tell him
the tale thrice, and then he said, "More men now become man-
slayers than I weened."
Skarphedinn spoke, "That man, though, must have been twice fey,"
he says, "who lost his life by our foster-father's hand, who has
never seen man's blood. And many would think that we brothers
would sooner have done this deed with the turn of temper that we
have."
"Scant space wilt thou have," says Njal, "ere the like befalls
thee; but need will drive thee to it."
Then they went to meet Gunnar, and told him of the slaying.
Gunnar spoke and said that was little man-scathe, "but yet he was
a free man."
Njal offered to make peace at once, and Gunnar said yes, and he
was to settle the terms himself. He made his award there and
then, and laid it at one hundred in silver. Njal paid down the
money on the spot, and they were at peace after that.