Kari bade Hjallti to go and search for Njal's bones, "For all
will believe in what thou sayest and thinkest about them."
Hjallti said he would be most willing to bear Njal's bones to
church; so they rode thence fifteen men. They rode east over
Thurso-water, and called on men there to come with them till they
had one hundred men, reckoning Njal's neighbours.
They came to Bergthorsknoll at mid-day.
Hjallti asked Kari under what part of the house Njal might be
lying, but Kari showed them to the spot, and there was a great
heap of ashes to dig away. There they found the hide underneath,
and it was as though it were shrivelled with the fire. They
raised up the hide, and lo! they were unburnt under it. All
praised God for that, and thought it was a great token.
Then the boy was taken up who had lain between them, and of him a
finger was burnt off which he had stretched out from under the
hide.
Njal was borne out, and so was Bergthora, and then all men went to
see their bodies.