There is no feud now between you and me." "There is not," I answered.

"I do not know that I had ever thought of one as possible." "There would have been had Hakon slain Heidrek," he said.
The old law of the blood feud had its full meaning to him.
"If Heidrek had stayed his men to meet us, Hakon would have given him terms rather than that this should have been the end," I said.
"I know it, for I heard him say so.

But there was a touch of the berserk in my father since his troubles came.

This is not the first time he has tried to fall fighting against odds.

He would not have listened to Hakon." He sighed heavily, and then shook himself, so that his mail rattled.