a long time hereafter.”  After that people arrived at the Thing and no tidings befell there.  Thord spent much time in Gest’s booth and always talked to Gudrun. [Sidenote:  Thord separates from Aud] One day Thord Ingunson asked Gudrun what the penalty was for a woman who went about always in breeches like men.  Gudrun replied, “She deserves the same penalty as a man who is dressed in a shirt with so low a neck that his naked breast be seen—­separation in either case.”  Then Thord said, “Would you advise me to proclaim my separation from And here at the Thing or in the country by the counsel of many men?  For I have to deal with high-tempered men who will count themselves as ill-treated in this affair.”  Gudrun answered after a while, “For evening waits the idler’s suit.”  Then Thord sprang up and went to the law rock and named to him witnesses, declared his separation from Aud, and gave as his reason that she made for herself gored breeches like a man.  Aud’s brothers disliked this very much, but things kept quiet.  Then Thord rode away from the Thing with the sons of Osvif.  When Aud heard these tidings, she said, “Good!  Well, that I know that I am left thus single.”  Then Thord rode, to divide the money, west into Saurby and twelve men with him, and it all went off easily, for Thord made no difficulties as to how the money was divided. [Sidenote:  Thord marries Gudrun] Thord drove from the west unto Laugar a great deal of live stock.  After that he wooed Gudrun and that matter was easily settled; Osvif and Gudrun said nothing against it.  The wedding was to take place in the tenth week of the summer, and that was a right noble feast.  Thord and Gudrun lived happily together.  What alone withheld Thorkell Whelp and Knut from setting afoot a lawsuit against Thord Ingunson was, that they got no backing up to that end.  The next summer the men of Hol had an out-dairy business in Hvammdale, and Aud stayed at the dairy.  The men of Laugar had their out-dairy in Lambdale, which cuts westward into the mountains off Salingsdale.  Aud asked the man who looked after the sheep how often he met the shepherd from Laugar.  He said nearly always as was likely since there was only a neck of land between the two dairies.  Then said Aud, “You shall meet the shepherd from Laugar to-day, and you can tell me who there are staying at the winter-dwelling[3] or who at the dairy, and speak in a friendly way of Thord as it behoves you to do.”  The boy promised to do as she told him.  And in the evening when the shepherd came home And asked what tidings he brought.  The shepherd answered, “I have heard tidings which you will think good, that now there is a broad bedroom-floor between the beds of Thord and Gudrun, for she is at the dairy and he is swinging at the rear of the hall, he and Osvif being two together alone at the winter-dwelling.”  “You have espied well,” said she, “and see to have saddled two horses at the time when people are going to bed.”  The shepherd did as