70 GUIDE TO ICELAND. seven companions, at the hands of ‘the man who shed tears like a child ’ when insulted, aided only by his brother. This naturally led to a blood-feud between the relatives of the slain and Gunnar ; and the following year at a horsefight (a popular amusement in those days) Gunnar, suspecting foul play towards his fighting horse, struck two men to the ground, and made more enemies. This began a fresh feud, and one of the assaulted, Starka’Sr, determined to avail himself of the first favourable op- portunity to take his revenge ; accordingly, as Gunnar and his two brothers, Kolskegg and Hjort, were returning from a feast at Tanga, they were suddenly attacked, when near the tynhyrn'ingr (Three-horns) mountain, by Starka’Sr and a band of thirty armed men. The three brothers, undaunted by the apparently over- whelming number of their assailants, fought so bravely that no less than fourteen of the latter bit the dust, when the survivors took to flight, exclaiming ‘ that they had to do with more than men.’ Hjort, to Gunnar’s great grief, fell in this conflict. Otkell and Starka’Sr having sons, it was only natural that they would seek to avenge the death of their respective fathers. Ac- cordingly some three years later, Gunnar and Kolskegg, as they were returning from a visit to the south, were attacked by the sons of Otkell and Starka’Sr, and twenty-three others. Gunnar and Kolskegg performed deeds of extraordinary valour that day, and defeated their assailants with great slaughter. Gunnar was summoned before the Aljnng, and the judges considering it some- what extraordinary that he should be so constantly embroiled, sentenced him to banishment for three years. This sentence he disregarded, for he felt that he had been somewhat unjustly treated, and was loth to tear himself away from his home ; and in con- sequence became an outlaw, whom it was lawful for any man to slay. One beautiful autumn evening Gunnar unexpectedly found HlV6arendi surrounded by a great company of armed men. He would not have been thus surprised, had not his faithful Irish hound, Samr, been lured from the house by a neighbour who was on friendly terms with the faithful brute. The honest old hound’s dying groan, however, awoke Gunnar in time to arm himself before his assailants were upon him. Bravely he fought for his life and homestead ; arrow after arrow from his bow pierced man after man as they advanced up the slope to attack him ; eight lay wounded and two dead, ere his opponents succeeded in making a breach in his stronghold, which they did by hauling the roof off with ropes : a sudden snap—his bowstring had been cut from

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