I will run the risk, and stand on equal footing with thee, every way." "As thou wilt," said Bersi.
It was the law of the holmgang that the hide should be five ells long, with loops at its corners.

Into these should be driven certain pins with heads to them, called tjosnur.

He who made it ready should go to the pins in such a manner that he could see sky between his legs, holding the lobes of his ears and speaking the forewords used in the rite called "The Sacrifice of the tjosnur." Three squares should be marked round the hide, each one foot broad.

At the outermost corners of the squares should be four poles, called hazels; when this is done, it is a hazelled field.

Each man should have three shields, and when they were cut up he must get upon the hide if he had given way from it before, and guard himself with his weapons alone thereafter.