When the banquet was over the guests
went home, leaving the place very dull and dismal.
On the evening after they had gone, the fires were kindled as usual,
and after they had burned up, there came in Thorodd with his company,
all of them wet. They sat down by the fire and began to wring their
clothes; and after they had sat down there came in Thorir Wooden-leg
and his five companions, all covered with earth. They shook their
clothes and scattered the earth on Thorodd and his fellows. The folk
of the household rushed out of the hall, as might be expected, and all
that evening they had no light nor any warmth from the fire.
Next evening the fires were made in the other hall, as the dead men
would be less likely to come there; but this was not so, for
everything happened just as it had done on the previous evening, and
both parties came to sit by the fires.
On the third evening Kjartan advised that a large fire should be made
in the hall, and a little fire in another and smaller room. This was
done, and things then went on in this fashion, that Thorodd and the
others sat beside the big fire, while the household contented
themselves with the little one, and this lasted right through
Christmas-tide.
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