"First ye were called Eygla's-Bersi, and then Holmgang-Bersi, but
now your right name will be Breech-Bersi!" and spoke her divorce
from him.

She went north to her kinsfolk, and meeting with her brother
Thorkel she bade him seek her goods again from Bersi -- her pin-
money and her dowry, saying that she would not own him now that
he was maimed. Thorkel Toothgnasher never blamed her for that,
and agreed to undertake her errand; but the winter slipped by and
his going was put off.


CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The Bane Of Thorkel Toothgnasher.

Afterwards, in the spring, Thorkel Toothgnasher set out to find
Bersi and to seek Steingerd's goods again. Bersi said that his
burden was heavy enough to bear, even though both together
underwent the weight of it. "And I shall not pay the money!"
said he.

Said Thorkel, "I bid thee to the holmgang at Orrestholm beside
Tjaldanes (Tentness)."

"That ye will think hardly worth while," said Bersi, "such a
champion as you are; and yet I undertake for to come."

So they came to the holme and fell to the holmgang. Thord
carried the shield before Bersi, and Vali was Thorkel's shield-
bearer. When two shields had been hacked to splinters, Bersi