Chapter 44
Chapter 44 - The slaying of Bard.King Eric and queen Gunnhilda came that same evening to Atla-isle, and Bard had prepared there a banquet for the king; and there was to be there a sacrifice to the guardian spirits. Sumptuous was the banquet, and great the drinking within the hall.
'Where is Bard?' asked the king; 'I see him not.'
Someone said: 'Bard is outside supplying his guests.'
'Who be these guests,' said the king, 'that he deemeth this more a duty than to be here within waiting on us?'
The man said that some house-carles of lord Thorir were come thither.
The king said: 'Go after them at once, and call them in hither.'
And so it was done, with the message that the king would fain see them.
Whereupon they came. The king received Aulvir well, and bade him sit in the h
