By old use and wont these two neighbours should have gone riding together; so Bersi set out and came to Muli, but when he got there Thord was gone.
"Well," said he, "Thord has broken old use and wont in awaiting me no longer." "If breach there be," answered Thordis, "it is thy doing.

This is nothing to what we owe thee, and I doubt there will be more to follow." They had words.

Bersi said that harm would come of her evil counsel; and so they parted.
When he left the house he said to his men, "Let us turn aside to the shore and take a boat; it is a long way to ride round the waterhead." So they took a boat--it was one of Thord's--and went their way.
They came to the meeting when most other folks were already there, and went to the tent of Olaf Peacock of Hjardarholt (Herdholt), for he was Bersi's chief.

It was crowded inside, and Bersi found no seat.

He used to sit next Thord, but that place was filled.