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Then did the brothers make them ready for their journey, and they took thirty men.
They went to the wood, of which they knew every path:
then they watched for Egil's coming.
There were two roads through the wood.
One led over a certain ridge, and there was a steep cliff,
and only a path for one; this was the shorter road.
The other led round the edge of the ridge, over wide bogs,
across which hewn wood was laid,
there too making a causeway for but one to pass.
And they lay in wait fifteen in either place.