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returned from the Thing, and Glum staid at home all the summer:
everything was quiet in the district till it came to the time of
the "Leet,"  1 when they assembled at that court. Glum, however,
was not there, and nothing was heard of him. Márr was at home in
his dwelling; but in the autumn, five weeks before winter, he
held a wedding-feast, and invited men to it, so that not less
than a hundred and twenty people came together. This invitation
appeared strange to everybody, for those who were concerned in
the wedding were not persons of any consequence. That evening
all the men of Eyjafirth were seen riding in from the dales two
or five at a time, and the people who came down into the
district were all collected in one body. Glum was there, and
Asgrim, and Gizor, with three hundred and sixty men, and they
came in the course of the night to the homestead, and sat at the
wedding-feast.         The morning after Glum sent to find
Thorarin, and told h