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SHORTLY AFTER this, Ogautan had a talk with Jokul and said: It is indeed true that I am your right and not your left hand.
What is there now about that? asked Jokul.
Answered Ogautan: It is that the brothers, Thorer and Thorstein, are still alive at Viking's, and are hid by him.
Answered Jokul: Then I will gather together men, and not give up till we have their lives.
Jokul got together eighty men, among whom there were thirty of the king's courtiers, all well busked as to clothes. In the evening they were busked for setting out, being about to leave the next morning. Two young loafers, of whom the one hight Vott and the other Thumal, had just come there, and when they had just gone to bed in the evening, Vott spoke to Thumal: Do you not think it is wise, brother, that we arise an
