[Sidenote:  Kjartan’s expedition to Laugar] After Yule that winter Kjartan got men together, and they mustered sixty men altogether.  Kjartan did not tell his father the reason of his journey, and Olaf asked but little about it.  Kjartan took with him tents and stores, and rode on his way until he came to Laugar.  He bade his men get off their horses, and said that some should look after the horses and some put up the tents.  At that time it was the custom that outhouses were outside, and not so very far away from the dwelling-house, and so it was at Laugar.  Kjartan had all the doors of the house taken, and forbade all the inmates to go outside, and for three nights he made them do their errands within the house.  After that Kjartan rode home to Herdholt, and each of his followers rode to his own home.  Olaf was very ill-pleased with this raid, but Thorgerd said there was no reason for blame, for the men of Laugar had deserved this, yea, and a still greater shame.  Then Hrefna said, “Did you have any talk with any one at Laugar, Kjartan?” He answered, “There was but little chance of that,” and said he and Bolli had exchanged only a few words.  Then Hrefna smiled and said, “It was told me as truth that you and Gudrun had some talk together, and I have likewise heard how she was arrayed, that she had coifed herself with the head-dress, and it suited her exceeding well.”  Kjartan answered, and coloured up, and it was easy to see he was angry with her for making a mockery of this.  “Nothing of what you say, Hrefna, passed before my eyes, and there was no need for Gudrun to coif herself with the head-dress to look statelier than all other women.”  Thereat Hrefna dropped the talk.  The men of Laugar bore this exceedingly ill, and thought it by much a greater and worse disgrace than if Kjartan had even killed a man or two of them.  The sons of Osvif were the wildest over this matter, but Bolli quieted them rather.  Gudrun was the fewest-spoken on the matter, yet men gathered from her words that it was uncertain whether any one took it as sorely to heart as she did.  Full enmity now grows up between the men of Laugar and the Herdholtings.  As the winter wore on Hrefna gave birth to a child, a boy, and he was named Asgier. [Sidenote:  The buying of the land at Tongue] Thorarin, the goodman of Tongue, let it be known that he wished to sell the land of Tongue.  The reason was that he was drained of money, and that he thought ill-will was swelling too much between the people of the countryside, he himself being a friend of either side.  Bolli thought he would like to buy the land and settle down on it, for the men of Laugar had little land and much cattle.  Bolli and Gudrun rode to Tongue at the advice of Osvif; they thought it a very handy chance to be able to secure this land so near to themselves, and Osvif bade them not to let a small matter stand in the way of a covenant.  Then they (Bolli and Gudrun) bespoke the purchase with Thorarin, and came to terms as to what the price should be, and also