For now must I refuse to eat of the horse sacrifice, and maybe there would be danger in that.

Yet I thought that no man would trouble more about me and my ways, so that I said naught of it to Osritha.
So I sat between Halfden and Thormod at the high place, and the whole hall was full of men seated at the long tables that ran from end to end, and across the wide floor.

The womenfolk and thralls went busily up and down serving, and it was a gay show enough to look on, for all were in their best array.
Yet it seemed to me that the men were silent beyond their wont, surly even in their talk, for the fear of the omen of that eddying smoke was yet on them.

And presently I felt and saw that many eyes were watching me, and those in no very friendly wise.

Some of the men who watched were strangers to me, but as they sat among our crew, they must be the rest of the saved from Rorik's following.
Others were men from beyond the village walls, and as Rorik's men had some reason and the others knew me not, I thought little of their unfriendly looks.
At last they brought round great cauldrons, in which were flesh hooks; to every man in turn, and first of all to Ingvar himself.