This was also law, that Egil proposed, and ancient custom,
that any man had a right to challenge another to wager of battle,
whether he were defendant in a cause or prosecutor.
Atli said that he would not refuse this to do battle with Egil.
'For,' said he,
'you propose what I ought to have proposed,
seeing that I have enough loss to avenge on you.
You have done to death my two brothers,
and far shall I be from upholding the right if I yield to
you mine own possessions unlawfully rather than fight with
you when you offer me this choice.'
So then Atli and Egil joined hands and pledged them to do battle,
the victor to own the lands for which they had been disputing.