TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Chapter Page

  I. Of the Lighting of the Beacon 1

  II. Of the Soursops, and the Curse which Hung on Them 20

  III. Kiartan at Cragness 28

  IV. Of Einar and Ondott 42

  V. The Summoning of Hiarandi 53

  VI. Of what Hiarandi should do 59

  VII. How Hiarandi received the Lesser Outlawry 64

  VIII. Of Schemings 78

  IX. Of the Outcome of Ondott's Plottings 91

  X. How Rolf named Witnesses for the Death of Hiarandi 101

  XI. Of Rolf's Search for One to Surpass Him with the Bow 109

  XII. Of the Trial of Skill at Tongue 121

  XIII. Of that Robber 129

  XIV. How Rolf and Einar summoned each other 145

  XV. Of Suits at the Althing 155

  XVI. The Act of Distress 166

  XVII. Rolf and Frodi fare abroad 175

  XVIII. How those Two came into Thraldom 180

  XIX. Now Men are Shipwrecked 192

  XX. How Rolf won his Freedom 206

  XXI. How Rolf won the Viking's Bow 230

  XXII. Now Kiartan Returns 253

  XXIII. Of the Coming of Earl Thorfinn 271

  XXIV. Now Rolf and Grani Quarrel 279

  XXV. Here Rolf comes to Cragness 295

  XXVI. Of Grani's Pride 313

  XXVII. Odd Doings at Cragness 335

  XXVIII. Of that Harvest Feast 345

  XXIX. Of the Trial of Grani's Pride 369

  XXX. Of the Saying of those Two Words 385