even then thou'lt need all the strength thou'st got."

After that he went down with Hrut to the ship, and said "fare thee
well". Then Hrut sailed away south with his crews.




CHAPTER V.

ATLI ARNVID SON'S SLAYING.


There was a man named Atli, son of Arnvid, Earl of East Gothland. He had
kept back the taxes from Hacon Athelstane's foster child, and both
father and son had fled away from Jemtland to Gothland. After that, Atli
held on with his followers out of the Mælar by Stock Sound, and so on
towards Denmark, and now he lies out in Öresound.[5] He is an outlaw
both of the Dane-King and of the Swede-King. Hrut held on south to the
Sound, and when he came into it he saw many ships in the Sound. Then
Wolf said--

"What's best to be done now, Icelander?"

"Hold on our course," says Hrut, "'for nothing venture, nothing have'.
My ship and Auzur's shall go first, but thou shalt lay thy ship where
thou likest."

"Seldom have I had others as a shield before me," says Wolf, and lays
his galley side by side with Hrut's ship; and so they hold on through