%PDF-1.3 %âãÏÓ 2 0 obj << /Length 106 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 22.8 0 0 22.8 155.5278 620.8142 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The Saga of the Ere-Dwellers)Tj ET endstream endobj 3 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 8 0 obj << /Length 4179 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 19 0 0 19 71 734.2 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The Saga of the Ere-Dwellers)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 710 Tm (1892 translation into English by William Morris & Eirikr Magnusson from the original Icelandic)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’Eyrbyggja saga’.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 662.8 Tm (Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To )Tj T* (West-Over-Sea.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 618.2 Tm (Ketil Flatneb was hight a famous hersir in Norway; he was the son of Biorn Rough-foot, the son of)Tj T* (Grim, a hersir of Sogn. Ketil Flatneb was a wedded man; he had to wife Yngvild, daughter of Ketil)Tj T* (Wether, a hersir of Raumarik; Biorn and Helgi were hight their sons, but their daughters were these,)Tj T* (Auth the Deep-minded, Thorun the Horned, and Jorun Manwitbrent. Biorn, the son of Ketil, was)Tj T* (fostered east in Iamtaland with that earl who was called Kiallak, a wise man, and most renowned; he)Tj T* (had a son whose name was Biorn, and a daughter hight Giaflaug. That was in the days when King)Tj T* (Harald Hairfair came to the rule of Norway. Because of that unpeace many noble men fled from their)Tj T* (lands out of Norway; some east over the Keel, some West-over-the-sea. Some there were withal who)Tj T* (in winter kept themselves in the South-isles, or the Orkneys, but in summer harried in Norway and)Tj T* (wrought much scathe in the kingdom of Harald the king.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now the bonders bemoaned them of that to the king, and prayed him deliver them from that unpeace.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Then Harald the king took such rede that he caused dight an army for West-over-the-sea, and said that)Tj T* (Ketil Flatneb should be captain of that host. Ketil begged off therefrom, but the king said he must)Tj T* (needs go; and when Ketil saw that the king would have his will, he betook himself to the faring, and)Tj T* (had with him his wife and those of his children who were at home. But when Ketil came)Tj T* (West-over-the-sea, some deal of fighting had he and his, and ever got the victory. He laid under him)Tj T* (the South-isles, and made himself chief over them. Then he made peace with the mightiest chiefs)Tj T* (West-over-the-sea, and made alliances with them, and therewithal sent the army back east. But when)Tj T* (they met Harald the king, they said that Ketil Flatneb was lord of the South-isles, but that they wotted)Tj T* (not if he would drag the rule west of the sea to King Harald. But when the king knew that, he took to)Tj T* (himself those lands that Ketil owned in Norway.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Ketil Flatneb gave his daughter Auth to Olaf the White, who at that time was the greatest war-king)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (West-over-the-sea; he was the son of Ingiald, the son of Helgi; but the mother of Ingiald was Thora,)Tj T* (the daughter of Sigurd Worm-in-eye, the son of Ragnar Hairy-breeks. Thorun the Horned he gave in)Tj T* (wedlock to Helgi the Lean, the son of Eyvind the Eastman and Rafarta, the daughter of Kiarfal, King)Tj T* (of the Irish.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 232.2002 Tm (Chapter 2 - Of Biorn Ketilson and Thorolf Most-Beard.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 208.0002 Tm (Biorn the son of Ketil Flatneb was in Iamtaland till Kiallak the earl died; he gat to wife Giaflaug the)Tj T* (earl’s daughter, and thereafter fared west over the Keel, first to Thrandheim and then south through the)Tj T* (land, and took to himself those lands which his father had owned, and drove away the bailiffs that)Tj T* (King Harald had set over them. King Harald was in the Wick when he heard that, and thereon he fared)Tj T* (by the inland road north to Thrandheim, and when he came there he summoned an eight-folks’ mote;)Tj T* (and at that mote he made Biorn Ketilson outlaw from Norway, a man to be slain or taken wheresoever)Tj T* (he might be found. Thereafter he sent Hawk High-breeks and other of his warriors to slay him if they)Tj T* (might find him. But when they came south beyond Stath, the friends of Biorn became ware of their)Tj T* (journey and sent him tidings thereof. Then Biorn got him aboard a bark which he owned, with his)Tj T* (household and chattels, and fled away south along the land, because that this was in the heart of)Tj ET endstream endobj 9 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 12 0 obj << /Length 3692 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (winter, and he durst not make for the main. Biorn fared on till he came to the island called Most which)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (lies off South-Hordaland, and there a man hight Rolf took him in, who was the son of Ornolf the)Tj T* (Fish-driver. There lay Biorn privily the winter through. But the king’s men turned back when they had)Tj T* (settled Biorn’s lands and set men over them.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 670.2 Tm (Chapter 3 - Thorolf Most-Beard Outlawed By King Harald )Tj T* (Hairfair.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 625.6 Tm (Rolf was a mighty chief, and a man of the greatest largesse; he had the ward of Thor’s temple there in)Tj T* (the island, and was a great friend of Thor. And therefore he was called Thorolf. He was a big man and)Tj T* (a strong, fair to look on, and had a great beard; therefore was he called Most-beard, and he was the)Tj T* (noblest man in the island.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the spring Thorolf gave Biorn a good long-ship manned with a doughty crew, and gave him)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Hallstein his son to bear him fellowship; and therewith they sailed West-over-the-sea to meet Biorn’s )Tj T* (kindred.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when King Harald knew that Thorolf Mostbeard had harboured Biorn Ketilson the king’s outlaw,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (then sent he men to see him and bade him begone from his lands, and fare as an outlaw even as Biorn)Tj T* (his friend, but if he come and meet the king and lay the whole matter in his hand. This was ten winters)Tj T* (after Ingolf Arnarson had fared out to take up his abode in Iceland, and that faring was grown to be)Tj T* (very famous, because that those men who came out from Iceland told of good choice of land therein.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 424.4 Tm (Chapter 4 - Thorolf Most-Beard Comes Out To Iceland, And)Tj T* (Sets Up House There.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 379.8001 Tm (Thorolf Most-Beard made a great sacrifice, and asked of Thor his well-beloved friend whether he)Tj T* (should make peace with the king, or get him gone from out the land and seek other fortunes. But the)Tj T* (Word showed Thorolf to Iceland; and thereafter he got for himself a great ship meet for the main, and)Tj T* (trimmed it for the Iceland-faring, and had with him his kindred and his household goods; and many)Tj T* (friends of his betook themselves to faring with him. He pulled down the temple, and had with him)Tj T* (most of the timbers which had been therein, and mould moreover from under the stall whereon Thor)Tj T* (had sat.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter Thorolf sailed into the main sea, and had wind at will, and made land, and sailed south)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (along and west about Reekness, and then fell the wind, and they saw that two big bights cut into the)Tj T* (land. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorolf cast overboard the pillars of his high-seat, which had been in the temple, and on one of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (them was Thor carven; withal he spake over them, that there he would abide in Iceland, whereas Thor)Tj T* (should let those pillars come a-land.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when they drifted from off the ship they were borne towards the westernmost firth in sight, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (folk deemed that they went in sooth no slower than might have been looked for.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that came a sea breeze, and they sailed west about Snowfellsness and stood into the firth. There)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (see they that the firth is mighty broad and long, with great fells rising on either side thereof. Then)Tj T* (Thorolf gave name to the firth and called it Broadfirth. He took land on the south side of the firth, nigh)Tj T* (the midmost, and laid his ship in the creek, which thereafter they called Templewick.)Tj ET endstream endobj 13 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 15 0 obj << /Length 3875 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Thereafter they espied the land and found on the outermost point of a ness north of the bay that Thor)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was come a-land with the pillars. That was afterwards called Thorsness.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter Thorolf fared with fire through his land out from Staff-river in the west, and east to that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (river which is now called Thors-river, and settled his shipmates there. But he set up for himself a great)Tj T* (house at Templewick which he called Templestead. There he let build a temple, and a mighty house it)Tj T* (was. There was a door in the side-wall and nearer to one end thereof. Within the door stood the pillars)Tj T* (of the high-seat, and nails were therein; they were called the Gods’ nails. Therewithin was there a)Tj T* (great frith-place. But off the inmost house was there another house, of that fashion whereof now is the)Tj T* (choir of a church, and there stood a stall in the midst of the floor in the fashion of an altar, and thereon)Tj T* (lay a ring without a join that weighed twenty ounces, and on that must men swear all oaths; and that)Tj T* (ring must the chief have on his arm at all man-motes.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (On the stall should also stand the blood-bowl, and therein the blood-rod was, like unto a sprinkler, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (therewith should be sprinkled from the bowl that blood which is called "Hlaut", which was that kind of)Tj T* (blood which flowed when those beasts were smitten who were sacrificed to the Gods. But round about)Tj T* (the stall were the Gods arrayed in the Holy Place.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (To that temple must all men pay toll, and be bound to follow the temple-priest in all farings even as)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (now are the thingmen of chiefs. But the chief must uphold the temple at his own charges, so that it)Tj T* (should not go to waste, and hold therein feasts of sacrifice.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Thorolf called that ness Thorsness which lieth between Swordfirth and Templewick; on the ness)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (is a fell, and that fell Thorolf held in such worship that he laid down that no man unwashed should turn)Tj T* (his eyes thither, and that nought should be done to death on the fell, either man or beast, until it went)Tj T* (therefrom of its own will. That fell he called Holy Fell, and he trowed that thither he should fare when)Tj T* (he died, and all his kindred from the ness. On the tongue of the ness whereas Thor had come a-land he)Tj T* (made all dooms be held, and thereon he set up a county Thing.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And so holy a place that was, that he would nowise that men should defile the field with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (blood-shedding, and moreover none should go thither for their needs, but to that end was appointed a)Tj T* (skerry called Dirtskerry.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Thorolf waxed of great largesse in his housekeeping, and had many men about him; for in those)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (days meat was good to get both from the isles and from the take of the sea.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 274.2003 Tm (Chapter 5 - Biorn Ketilson Comes West-Over-The-Sea, But)Tj T* (Will Not Abide There.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 229.6003 Tm (Now must we tell of Biorn, the son of Ketil Flatneb, that he sailed West-over-the-sea when he and)Tj T* (Thorolf Most-beard sundered as is aforesaid.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He made for the South-isles; but when he came West-over-the-sea, then was Ketil Flatneb his father)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (dead, but he found there Helgi his brother and his sisters, and they offered him good entertainment)Tj T* (with them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But Biorn saw that they had another troth, and nowise manly it seemed to him that they had cast off)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the faith that their kin had held; and he had no heart to dwell therein, and would not take up his abode)Tj T* (there. Yet was he the winter through with Auth his sister and Thorstein her son.)Tj ET endstream endobj 16 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 18 0 obj << /Length 3669 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (But when they found that he would not be at one with his kindred, they called him Biorn the Easterner,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and deemed it ill that he would not abide there.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 696.6 Tm (Chapter 6 - Biorn Comes Out To Iceland.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 672.4 Tm (Biorn was two winters in the South-isles before he dight him to fare to Iceland; with him in that faring)Tj T* (was Hallstein Thorolfson; and they made haven at Broadfirth, and took land out from Staff-river,)Tj T* (betwixt that and Lavafirth, by Thorolf’s rede. Biorn dwelt at Burgholt in Bearhaven, and he was the)Tj T* (most noble-hearted of men.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Hallstein, the son of Thorolf, deemed it less than manly to take land at the hands of his father; so he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (fared west over Broadfirth, and there took to himself land, and dwelt at Hallsteinsness.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Certain winters thereafter came out Auth the Deep-minded; and the first winter she was with Biorn her)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brother, but afterwards she made her own all the Dale-lands in Broadfirth between)Tj T* (Skraumuhlaups-river and Daymeal-water, and dwelt at Hvamm.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In those days was all Broadfirth settled; but little need there is to speak of the land-taking of those men)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (who come not into the story.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 473.4002 Tm (Chapter 7 - Of The Kin Of Kiallak.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 449.2002 Tm (There was a man hight Geirrod who took land from Thors-river eastward unto Longdale, and dwelt at)Tj T* (Ere; with him came out Ulfar the Champion, to whom Geirrod gave lands round about Ulfar’s-fell;)Tj T* (with him too came Fingeir, son of Thorstein Snowshoe. 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They had three children: Thorgrim the)Tj T* (Priest was a son of theirs, and their daughter was Gerd, she whom Thorrood the Priest, son of Odd the)Tj T* (Strong, had to wife; their third child was Helga, whom Asgeir of Ere had to wife.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (From the children of Kiallak is sprung a great kindred, which is called the Kiallekings.)Tj T* (Ottar was the name of another son of Biorn; he married Gro, the daughter of Geirleif of Bardstrand.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Their sons were these: Helgi, the father of Osvif the Wise, and Biorn, the father of Vigfus of)Tj T* (Drapalith; but Vilgeir was the third son of Ottar Biornson.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf Most-beard married in his old age, and had to wife her who is called Unn; some say that she)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was daughter of Thorstein the Red, but Ari the Learned, son of Thorgils, numbers her not among his)Tj T* (children. Thorolf and Unn had a son who was called Stein; that lad Thorolf gave to Thor his friend,)Tj T* (and called him Thorstein, and the boy was very quick of growth.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Hallstein Thorolfson had to wife Osk, daughter of Thorstein the Red; Thorstein was their son; he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was fostered at Thorolf’s, and was called Thorstein the Swart; but his own son Thorolf called)Tj T* (Thorstein Codbiter.)Tj ET endstream endobj 19 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 21 0 obj << /Length 3751 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 8 - Of Thorolf Halt-Foot.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (In those days came out Geirrid, the sister of Geirrod of Ere, and he gave her dwelling in Burgdale up)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (from Swanfirth. She let build her hall athwart the highway, and all men should ride through it who)Tj T* (passed by. Therein stood ever a table, and meat to be given to whomsoever had will thereto, and)Tj T* (therefore was she deemed to be the greatest and noblest of women. Biorn, son of Bolverk)Tj T* (Blinding-snout, had had Geirrid to wife, and their son was called Thorolf, and was a mighty viking; he)Tj T* (came out some time after his mother, and was with her the first winter. Thorolf deemed the lands of)Tj T* (Burgdale but too narrow, and he challenged Ulfar the Champion for his lands, and bade him to the)Tj T* (holm-gang because he was an old man and a childless. But Ulfar had liefer die than be cowed by)Tj T* (Thorolf. They went to holm in Swanfirth, and Ulfar fell, but Thorolf was wounded in the leg, and went)Tj T* (halt ever after, and therefore was he called Halt-foot. Now he set up house in Hvamm in)Tj T* (Thorsriverdale. He took to himself the land after Ulfar, and was the most wrongful of men. He sold)Tj T* (land to the freedmen of Thorbrand of Swanfirth; Ulfar’s-fell to Ulfar, to wit, and Orligstead to Orlig;)Tj T* (and they dwelt there long after. Thorolf Halt-foot had three children; his son was called Arnkel, but his)Tj T* (daughter Gunnfrid, whom Thorbein of Thorbeinstead up on Waterneck east from Drapalith had to)Tj T* (wife; their sons were Sigmund and Thorgils, but their daughter was hight Thorgerd, whom Vigfus of)Tj T* (Drapalith had to wife. Another daughter of Thorolf was Geirrid, whom Thorolf the son of Heriolf)Tj T* (Holkinrazi had to wife. They dwelt at Mewlithe; their children were Thorarin the Swart and Gudny.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 467.2002 Tm (Chapter 9 - Of Thorstein Codbiter. Battle At Thorsness )Tj T* (Thing.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 422.6002 Tm (Thorolf Most-Beard died at Templestead, and then Thorstein Codbiter took his inheritance after him.)Tj T* (He then took to wife Thora, daughter of Olaf Feilan and sister of Thord the Yeller, who dwelt at)Tj T* (Hvamm in those days.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf was buried at Howness, west of Templestead.)Tj T* (At that time so great was the pride of the kin of Kiallak, that they thought themselves before all other)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (men in that countryside; and so many were the kinsmen of Biorn that there was no kindred so mighty)Tj T* (in all Broadfirth.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In those days Barne-Kiallak, their kinsman, dwelt in Midfell-strand, at the stead which is now called)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Kiallakstead, and a many sons he had who were of good conditions; they all brought help to their kin)Tj T* (south of the firth at Things and folk-motes.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (On a spring-tide at Thorsness Thing these brothers-in-law Thorgrim Kiallakson and Asgeir of Ere gave)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (out that they would not give a lift to the pride of the Thorsness-folk, and that they would go their)Tj T* (errands in the grass as otherwhere men do in man-motes, though those men were so proud that they)Tj T* (made their lands holier than other lands of Broadfirth. They gave forth that they would not tread shoe)Tj T* (for the going to the out-skerries for their easements.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Thorstein Codbiter was ware of this, he had no will that they should defile that field which)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorolf his father had honoured over all other places in his lands.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So he called his friends to him, and bade them keep those folk from the field by battle if they were)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (minded to defile it.)Tj ET endstream endobj 22 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 24 0 obj << /Length 4310 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (In this rede were with him Thorgeir the son of Geirrod of Ere, and the Swanfirthers Thorfin and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorbrand his son, Thorolf Halt- foot, and many other thingmen and friends of Thorstein.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But in the evening when the Kiallekings were full of meat they took their weapons and went out on to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the ness; but when Thorstein and his folk saw that they turned off from the road that lay skerry-ward,)Tj T* (they sprang to their weapons and ran after them with whooping and egging on. 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He found that far apart)Tj T* (were the minds of them; yet he brought about truce between them, and a meeting to be summoned.)Tj T* (The close of the matter was that Thord should make it up, on such terms that whereas the Kiallekings)Tj T* (laid down that they would never go their errands to Dirtskerry, Thorstein claimed that they should not)Tj T* (defile the field now more than aforetime. The Kiallekings claimed that all they who had fallen on)Tj T* (Thorstein’s part should be fallen unhallowed, because they had first set on them with the mind to fight.)Tj T* (But the Thorsnessings said that all the Kiallekings had fallen unhallowed because of their)Tj T* (law-breaking at a Holy Thing.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But though the terms laid down were hard for the award, yet Thord yeasaid the taking it on him rather)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (than that they should part unappeased. Now Thord thus set forth the beginning of the award: "Let hap)Tj T* (abide as hap befell"; said that for no manslayings nor hurts which had happed at Thorsness should)Tj T* (man-gild be paid. The field he gave out unhallowed because of the blood shed in wrath that had fallen)Tj T* (thereon, and that land he declared now no holier than another, laying down that the cause thereof were)Tj T* (those who first bestirred them to wounding others. And that he called the only peace-breaking that had)Tj T* (betid, and said withal that no Thing should be held there thenceforward. But that they might be well)Tj T* (appeased and friends thenceforth, he made this further award, that Thorgrim Kiallakson should uphold)Tj T* (the temple half at his own costs, and answer for half the temple toll, and the Thingmen the other half.)Tj T* (He should also help Thorstein thenceforth in all law-cases, and strengthen him in whatso hallowing he)Tj T* (might bestow on the Thing, whereso it should next be set up.)Tj ET endstream endobj 25 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 27 0 obj << /Length 3603 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Withal Thord the Yeller gave to Thorgrim Kiallakson Thorhild his kinswoman, the daughter of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorkel Main-acre his neighbour; and thenceforth was he called Thorgrim the Priest. 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Steinthor is held for the third best man-at-arms of)Tj T* (Iceland, along with these, Helgi, the son of Droplaug, and Vemund Kogr.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thormod was a wise man and a peaceful. Thord Wall-eye was a very masterful man. Bergthor was the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (youngest, yet had he all the makings of a man in him.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 298.4002 Tm (Chapter 13 - Of Snorri Thorgrimson.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 274.2002 Tm (Snorri Thorgrimson was fourteen winters old when he fared abroad with his foster-brothers Thorleif)Tj T* (Kimbi and Thorod. Bork the Thick gave him fifty hundreds in silver for his voyage. They had a good)Tj T* (voyage, and came to Norway in harvest, and were the winter through in Rogaland.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Snorri abode with Erling Skialgson at Soli, and Erling was good to him because of the ancient)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (friendship between their former kinsmen, Horda-Karl and Thorolf Most-beard to wit.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The summer after they fared out to Iceland and were late-ready. 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With that they jumped up, and made great shouting and laughter thereover.)Tj T* (In that very nick of time came up Thorarin and his folk, and Nail was the foremost; but when he saw)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (them threaten with their weapons, he blenched and ran forth and up into the fell, and there became one)Tj T* (witless with fear. But Thorarin rushed at Thorbiorn and smote his sword into his head, and clave it)Tj T* (down to the jaw-teeth. Then Thorir Ernson with two others set on Thorarin, and Hallstein and another)Tj T* (on Alfgeir. Odd Katlason with another man gat on to a fellow of Alfgeir’s, and three of Thorbiorn’s)Tj T* (fellows on two of Thorarin’s folk; and the fight was joined both fierce and fell. 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Katla sat on the dais, and span yarn. She bade Odd sit)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (beside her; "and be thou as near to me as thou may’st." She bade her women sit in their seats, "and be)Tj T* (ye silent," quoth she, "and I will have words with them.")Tj ET endstream endobj 54 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 56 0 obj << /Length 3289 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (So when Arnkel and his folk came, they went in there, and when they came into the chamber, Katla)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (greeted Arnkel and asked for tidings. Arnkel said he had nought to tell, and asked where was Odd.)Tj T* (Katla said he had gone south to Broadwick. 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Arnkel said it)Tj T* (was so; and therewith his fellows took the rock and hewed it asunder.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then said Katla: "Ye will not have to say at home this eve that ye had no errand at Holt, since ye have)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (slaughtered my rock.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then went Arnkel and his folk and sought for Odd within and without, and saw nought quick save a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (house-boar that Katla owned, which lay under the ash-heap; and thereafter they fared away.)Tj ET endstream endobj 57 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 59 0 obj << /Length 4251 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (But when they were come halfway to Mewlithe, came Geirrid to meet them, with a workman of hers,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and asked, how they had fared. Thorarin told her all about it. 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But the other choice is to)Tj T* (turn all our thoughts to this, that ye may fare abroad with all your loose goods, and let the lands be)Tj T* (dealt with as fate may have it, such of them as may not be sold.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Of this kind of help was Alfgeir most fain. Thorarin also said that he saw not how he might have)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (means to atone with money all those guilts which had been wrought in these matters. Vermund said)Tj T* (that he would not part from Thorarin whether he would that he should fare abroad with him, or give)Tj T* (him fighting-help here in the land. 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But the next morning)Tj T* (rode Vigfus down to Holyfell and claimed boot for this shaming, but Snorri spoke, saying that he saw)Tj T* (no odds between those haps that had befallen.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That Vigfus liked ill enough, and they parted with the greatest ill-will.)Tj T* (In the spring Vigfus brought a suit for the wounding to the Thorsness Thing, but Snorri set forth, that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Biorn should be made guilty for the blow with the staff; and the end of the case was that Biorn was)Tj T* (made guilty, because of the onslaught on Helgi, and got no boot for his wound, and his arm he bare)Tj T* (ever after in a sling.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 470.0002 Tm (Chapter 24 - Of Eric the Red.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 445.8002 Tm (At this same Thing Thorgest the Old and the sons of Thord the Yeller brought a case against Eric the)Tj T* (Red for the slaughter of the sons of Thorgest, who had been slain in the autumn when Eric fetched the)Tj T* (settles to Broadlairstead; and very thronged was that Thing; but before it they had sat at home with)Tj T* (crowded followings. 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After the Thing those of Thorgest sailed with)Tj T* (many ships into the islands; but Eyolf, son of Aesa, hid Eric’s ships in Dimon’s bay, and thither came)Tj T* (Stir and Thorbiorn to meet Eric; and then did Eyolf and Stir after the fashion of Arnkel, for they went)Tj T* (in company with Eric, each in his own skiff, as far as past Ellidis-isle.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the voyage Eric the Red found Greenland, and was there three winters, and then he went to Iceland,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and abode there one winter before he fared out to settle Greenland; but this befell fourteen winters)Tj T* (before Christ’s faith was made law in Iceland.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 191.8003 Tm (Chapter 25 - Of Vermund And Thorarin In Norway; Of)Tj T* (Those Bareserks.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 147.2003 Tm (Now is it to be said of Vermund and Thorarin the Swart that they came up from the main as far north)Tj T* (as Throndheim-mouth, and stretched in for Throndheim. In those days Earl Hakon, son of Sigurd,)Tj T* (ruled over Norway; so Vermund went to the Earl, and became his man, but Thorarin went thence)Tj T* (straightway that same autumn West-over-the-sea with Alfgeir, and Vermund gave them his share in)Tj T* (the ship; and henceforward Thorarin has nought to do with this tale.)Tj ET endstream endobj 66 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 68 0 obj << /Length 4401 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Earl Hakon abode at Hladir that winter, and Vermund was with him holden in great friendship, and the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Earl did well to him, because he wotted that Vermund was of great kin out in Iceland.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (With the Earl were two brothers, Swedes of kin, one called Halli, the other Leikner; they were big men)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of stature and strength, nor at that time were their peers herein to be found in Norway, nor far and wide)Tj T* (otherwhere. 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Vermund said that should never be, and thereafter he gat)Tj T* (their yea to go to Iceland with him, if that were with the Earl’s will and consent.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Vermund tells the Earl how things had gone, and the Earl settled that the Bareserks should fare)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with him to Iceland, "if thou deemest that most to thine honour;" but he bade him bethink him that he)Tj T* (should deem that a cause for enmity if he ended ill with them, so utterly as they were now in his)Tj T* (power; but Vermund said there was no need that things should come thereto.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter Vermund fared to Iceland with the Bareserks, and had a good voyage, and came home to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (his house in Bearhaven the same summer that Eric the Red went to Greenland, as is written afore.)Tj ET endstream endobj 69 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 72 0 obj << /Length 3837 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Soon after Vermund came home, Halli the Bareserk fell to talk with Vermund about getting him a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (seemly match, but Vermund said he saw no hope that any woman of good kin would bind herself or)Tj T* (her fortune to a Bareserk; so he hung back in that matter. 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Stir went home and the Bareserks with him, though they were not willing to this)Tj T* (at first, and bade Vermund know that he had no right to sell or give them like unfree men; yet they said)Tj T* (withal that it was more to their mood to follow Stir rather than Vermund; and things went very)Tj T* (hopefully between them and Stir at first. The Bareserks were with Stir when he went west over)Tj T* (Broadfirth to slay Thorbiorn Jaw who dwelt at Jawfirth. A lock-bed he had made exceeding strong)Tj T* (with beams of timber, but the Bareserks brake that up, so that the naves outside sprang asunder; yet)Tj T* (was Stir himself the bane of Thorbiorn Jaw.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 210.4 Tm (Chapter 26 - Of Vigfus And Swart The Strong. The Slaying Of )Tj T* (Vigfus.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 165.8 Tm (The autumn when the Bareserks came to Stir, this happed withal, that Vigfus of Drapalith went to burn)Tj T* (charcoal to the place called Selbrents, and three thralls with him, one of whom was Swart the Strong;)Tj T* (but when they came into the wood Vigfus said: "Great pity it is, and so thou wilt deem it thyself,)Tj T* (Swart, that thou shouldst be an unfree man, strong as thou art, and manly to look upon.")Tj ET endstream endobj 73 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 75 0 obj << /Length 3548 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("Truly I deem it a great trouble," said Swart; "but it is not so with my will.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Vigfus said: "What wilt thou do that I give thee thy freedom?")Tj T* ("I may not buy it with money, for I have it not," said he; "but such things as I may do I will not spare.")Tj T* (Said Vigfus: "Thou shalt go to Holyfell and kill Snorri the Priest, and thereafter shalt thou verily have)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thy freedom, and therewith will I give thee good fortune.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Nay, I may not bring that about," said Swart.)Tj T* ("I shall give thee counsel," said Vigfus, "so that this may be brought about without any risk of thy )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (life.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Well, I will listen to it," said Swart.)Tj T* ("Thou shalt go to Holyfell and get into the loft that is over the outer door, and pull up the boards of the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (floor, so that thou may’st thrust a bill therethrough; then when Snorri goes out to his privy, thou shalt)Tj T* (thrust the bill through the floor of the loft into his back so hard that it may come out at his belly; and)Tj T* (then leap off out on to the roof and so over the wall, and let the mirk night cover thee.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So with this counsel went Swart to Holyfell, and broke open the roof over the outer door, and went)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (into the loft thereby; and that was at such time as Snorri and his folk sat by the meal-fires. 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And when)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they came up the hill-side they saw the fire whereat Vigfus and his folk burned charcoal. Withal they)Tj T* (came unawares upon Vigfus and his men, and slew him, but gave life to the house-carles, and)Tj T* (thereafter Snorri went back home; but the house-carles of Vigfus told these tidings at Drapalith.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Vigfus was laid in cairn the next day, and that same day went Thorgerd his wife into Lairstead to tell)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the tidings to Arnkel her kinsman, and bade him take up the blood-suit for the slaying of Vigfus. But)Tj T* (he put that off from him, and said that that belonged to the Kiallekings, the kin of Vigfus; and above)Tj T* (all would he have the case go to Stir, and said that it was fittest to him to take up the cause for Vigfus)Tj T* (his kinsman; "for," said he, "he is a man who is fain to meddle in many things.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Thormod Trefilson sang this song about the slaying of Vigfus:)Tj T* (First the Folk-wielder)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Felled there the feller)Tj T* (Of fight-boar gold-bristled,)Tj T* (Vigfus men hight him.)Tj T* (The wound-mews thereafter)Tj T* (There were they tearing)Tj ET endstream endobj 76 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 78 0 obj << /Length 3523 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Full meat of fight-god,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Biorn’s heirship wearer.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 696.6 Tm (Chapter 27 - Arnkel Takes Up The Blood-Feud For Vigfus.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 672.4 Tm (Thereafter went Thorgerd out under Lava, and bade Stir take up the suit for Vigfus his kinsman. 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"Yet even this will I undergo," said she, "if thereby)Tj T* (the lot of my foes be made heavier than before.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter she fared home, and went in about this business as she was taught in all wise; and when she)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (came to Lairstead she told Arnkel that the kin of Vigfus would that he should be the leader in taking)Tj T* (up the blood-suit for the slaying of Vigfus, and that they all promised their help.)Tj ET endstream endobj 79 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 81 0 obj << /Length 3702 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Arnkel said that he had said before whereto his mind was given about the suit.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Therewithal Thorgerd drew from under her cloak the head of Vigfus, and spake: "Here is now a head,")Tj 0 -1.2 TD (said she, "that would not have begged off from taking up the suit for thee, if there had been need )Tj T* (thereof.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arnkel started back thereat, and thrust her from him, and said: "Go," says he, "and say so much to the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (kin of Vigfus, that henceforward they waver not more in their help against Snorri the Priest, than I)Tj T* (shall in the leading of the suit; but so my mind tells me that, however the case goes, they shall lay land)Tj T* (under foot or ever I do. 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So)Tj T* (Snorri paid up the money, and the Thing came to an end in such wise, that peace was made in all the )Tj T* (suits.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 404.0002 Tm (Chapter 28 - Of The Bareserks And The Wooing of Asdis,)Tj T* (Stir’s Daughter.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 359.4002 Tm (Now that happed to tell of next which is aforewritten, that the Bareserks were with Stir, and when they)Tj T* (had been there awhile, Halli fell to talking with Asdis, Stir’s daughter. She was a young woman and a)Tj T* (stately, proud of attire, and somewhat high-minded; but when Stir knew of their talk together, he bade)Tj T* (Halli not to do him that shame and heartburn in beguiling his daughter.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Halli answered: "No shame it is to thee though I talk with thy daughter, nor will I do that to thy)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (dishonour; but I will tell thee straightly that I have so much love in my heart for her, that I know not)Tj T* (how to put it out of my mind. 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But if thou wilt not do for me my desire, that shall cut)Tj T* (our friendship atwain; and then each must do as he will in his own matter; and little avail will it be to)Tj T* (thee then to grumble about my talk with Asdis.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When he had thus spoken, Stir was silent, and thought it somewhat hard to answer, but he said in a )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (while:)Tj ET endstream endobj 82 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 84 0 obj << /Length 2963 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("Whether is this spoken with all thine heart, or is it a vain word, and seekest thou a quarrel?")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("So shalt thou answer," said Halli, "as if mine were no foolish word; and all our friendship lies on)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (what thine answer will be in this matter.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Stir answered: "Then will I talk the thing over with my friends, and take counsel with them how I shall)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (answer this.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Halli: "The matter shalt thou talk over with whomsoever pleases thee within three nights, but I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (will not that this answer to me drag on longer than that, because I will not be a dangler over this )Tj T* (betrothal.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And therewithal they parted.)Tj T* (The next morning Stir rode east to Holyfell, and when he came there, Snorri bade him abide; but Stir)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (said that he would talk with him, and then ride away.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Snorri asked if he had some troublous matter on hand to talk of. "So it seems to me," said Stir.)Tj T* (Snorri said: "Then we will go up on to the Holy Fell, for those redes have been the last to come to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (nought that have been taken there.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Therein thou shalt have thy will," said Stir.)Tj T* (So they went upon to the mount, and there sat talking all day till evening, nor did any man know what)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they said together; and then Stir rode home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But the next morning Stir and Halli went to talk together, and Halli asked Stir how his case stood.)Tj T* (Stir answered: "It is the talk of men that thou seemest somewhat bare of money, so what wilt thou do)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (for this, since thou hast no fee to lay down therefor?")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Halli answered: "I will do what I may, since money fails me.")Tj T* (Says Stir: "I see that it will mislike thee if I give thee not my daughter; so now will I do as men of old,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and will let thee do some great deed for this bridal.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("What is it, then?" said Halli.)Tj T* ("Thou shalt break up," says Stir, "a road through the lava out to Bearhaven, and raise a boundary-wall)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (over the lava betwixt our lands, and make a burg here at the head of the lava; and when this work is)Tj T* (done, I will give thee Asdis my daughter.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Halli answered: "I am not wont to work, yet will I say yea to this, if thereby I may the easier have the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (maiden for wife.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Stir said that this then should be their bargain.)Tj T* (Thereafter they began to make the road, and the greatest of man’s-work it is; and they raised the wall)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (whereof there are still tokens, and thereafter wrought the burg. But while they were at the work, Stir)Tj T* (let build a hot bath at his house at Lava, and it was dug down in the ground, and there was a window)Tj T* (over the furnace, so that it might be fed from without, and wondrous hot was that place.)Tj ET endstream endobj 85 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 87 0 obj << /Length 3632 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now when either work was nigh finished, on the last day whereon Halli and his brother were at work)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (on the burg, it befell that thereby passed Asdis,)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Stir’s daughter, and close to the homestead it was. Now she had done on her best attire, and when Halli)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and his brother spake to her, she answered nought.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then sang Halli this stave:)Tj T* ("O fair-foot, O linen-girt goddess that beareth)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The flame that is hanging from fair limbs adown!)Tj T* (Whither now hast thou dight thee thy ways to be wending,)Tj T* (O fair wight, O tell me, and lie not in telling?)Tj T* (For all through the winter, O wise-hearted warden)Tj T* (Of the board of the chess-play, not once I beheld thee)Tj T* (From out of the houses fare this-wise afoot,)Tj T* (So goodly of garments, so grand of array.")Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 518.4001 Tm (Chapter 29 - Of Thorod Scat-Catcher And Of Biorn)Tj T* (Asbrandson, And Of The Slaying Of The Sons Of Thorir )Tj T* (Wooden-Leg.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 453.4001 Tm (There was a man called Thorod, who was of the Midfell-strand kindred. He was a trustworthy man and)Tj T* (a great seafarer, and had a ship afloat. Thorod had sailed on a trading voyage west to Ireland and )Tj T* (Dublin.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At that time Sigurd Lodverson, Earl of the Orkneys, had harried in the South-isles, and all the way)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (west to Man. He had laid a tribute on the dwellers in Man; and when peace was made, the Earl left)Tj T* (men to wait for the scat \(and the more part thereof was paid up in burned silver\), but he himself sailed)Tj T* (away north to the Orkneys.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now when they who had awaited the scat were ready to sail, the wind blew from the south-west, but)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (when they had been at sea a while, it shifted to the south-east and east, and blew a great gale, and)Tj T* (drove them north of Ireland. Their ship was broken to pieces on an unpeopled island there; and when)Tj T* (they were in this plight there bore down on them Thorod the Icelander, late come from Dublin. The)Tj T* (Earl’s men hailed the chapmen for help, and Thorod put out a boat and went therein himself; and when)Tj T* (they met, the Earl’s men prayed him for aid, and promised him money to bring them home to the)Tj T* (Orkneys to Earl Sigurd. But Thorod deemed he might not do that, since he was already bound for)Tj T* (Iceland. But they prayed him hard, because they deemed that their wealth and their lives lay on their)Tj T* (not being taken prisoners in Ireland or the South-isles, where they had harried erst. So the end of it was)Tj T* (that he sold them his boat from his big ship, and took therefor a good share of the scat; and thereon)Tj T* (they laid their boat for the Orkneys, but Thorod sailed boatless for Iceland.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He came upon the south coast of the land, and stretched west along the shore, and sailed into)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Broadfirth, and came safe and sound to Daymeal-ness, and in the autumn went to dwell with Snorri the)Tj T* (Priest at Holyfell, and ever after was he called Thorod Scat-catcher.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now this was a little after the slaying of Thorbiorn the Thick. And that winter was Thurid, the sister of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Snorri the Priest, whom Thorbiorn the Thick had had to wife, abiding at Holyfell. A little while after)Tj T* (his coming back to Iceland Thorod put forth the word and prayed Snorri to give him his sister Thurid;)Tj T* (and seeing that he was wealthy of money, and that Snorri knew his conditions well, and that he saw)Tj ET endstream endobj 88 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 90 0 obj << /Length 3316 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (that she needed much some good care, with all this it seemed good to Snorri to give him the woman;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and he held their wedding in the winter there at Holyfell. But the spring after Thorod betook himself to)Tj T* (keeping house at Frodis-water, and he became a good bonder and a trustworthy.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But so soon as Thurid came to Frodis-water Biorn Asbrandson got coming thither, and it was the talk)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of all men that there was fooling betwixt him and Thurid, and Thorod began to blame Biorn for his)Tj T* (comings, yet that mended matters in no-wise.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At that time dwelt Thorir Wooden-leg at Ernknoll, and his sons Ern and Val were grown up by then,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and were the hopefullest of men. Now they laid reproach on Thorod in that he bore with Biorn such)Tj T* (shame as he dealt him, and they offered to follow Thorod if he would put an end to Biorn’s comings)Tj T* (and goings.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (On a time Biorn came to Frodis-water and sat talking with Thurid. And Thorod was ever wont to be)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (within doors when Biorn was there; but now they saw him nowhere. Then Thurid said: "Take thou)Tj T* (heed to thy faring, Biorn; whereas I deem that Thorod is minded to put an end to thy coming hither;)Tj T* (and I guess that they have gone to waylay thee; and he will be minded that ye two shall not meet with)Tj T* (an equal band.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Biorn sang this song:)Tj T* ("O ground of the golden strings, might we but gain it)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (To make this day’s wearing of all days the longest)Tj T* (That ever yet hung twixt earth’s woodland and heaven --)Tj T* (Yea, whiles yet I tarried the hours in their waning --)Tj T* (For, O fir of the worm that about the arm windeth,)Tj T* (This night amongst all nights, ’tis I and no other)Tj T* (Must turn me to grief now, and drink out the grave-ales)Tj T* (Of the joys of our life-days, full often a-dying.")Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 351.2002 Tm (Chapter 30 - Of The Evil Dealings Of Thorolf Halt-Foot.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 327.0002 Tm (Now must it be told of Thorolf Halt-foot that he began to get exceeding old, and became very evil and)Tj T* (hard to deal with by reason of his old age, and full of all injustice, and things went uneasily enough)Tj T* (betwixt him and Arnkel his son.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now on a day Thorolf rode in to Ulfar’s-fell to find Ulfar the bonder. He was a great furtherer of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (field-work, and much spoken of for this, that he saved his hay quicker than other men, and was so)Tj T* (lucky with sheep withal, that his sheep never died of clemming or from storms.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So when Thorolf met him, he asked him what counsel he gave him as to how he should set about his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (husbandry, and what his mind told him about the summer, if it would be dry or not.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Ulfar answered: "No better rede can I give thee than what I follow myself. I shall let bear out the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (scythe to-day, and mow down all I may this week, because I deem it will be rainy; but I guess that)Tj T* (after that it will be very dry for the next half month.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So things went as he had said, for it was often seen that he could foretell the weather better than other )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (men.)Tj ET endstream endobj 91 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 93 0 obj << /Length 3684 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (So Thorolf went home, and he had with him many workmen, and now he let straightway begin the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (out-meadow mowing; and the weather was even as Ulfar had said.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Thorolf and Ulfar had a meadow in common upon the neck, and either of them at first mowed)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (much hay, and then they spread it, and raked it up into big cocks. 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Therefore to-day shall ye mow in the home-field, but to-morrow will we save such hay as we)Tj T* (have up on the neck.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now the weather went even as he said; and when the evening was wearing on, Ulfar sent a man up to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the neck, to look to the hay that stood there in cocks. But Thorolf Halt-foot carried hay with three)Tj T* (draught-oxen the day through, and by the third hour after noontide they had saved all the hay that was)Tj T* (his. Then he bade carry Ulfar’s hay withal into his garth; and they did as he bade them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Ulfar’s messenger saw that, he ran and told his master. Then Ulfar went up on to the neck,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and was exceeding wroth, and asked Thorolf why he robbed him. Thorolf said he heeded not what he)Tj T* (said, and raved and was ugly to deal with, and they well-nigh came to blows. But Ulfar saw that he)Tj T* (had no choice but to go away. So he went straightway to Arnkel, and told him of his scathe, and)Tj T* (prayed for his warding, "else," he gave out, "all would be gone by the board.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arnkel said he would bid his father pay boot for the hay, but said that none the less it sorely misgave)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (him that nought would come of it.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So when father and son met, Arnkel bade his father pay Ulfar boot for the taking of the hay; but)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorolf said the thrall was far too rich already. Arnkel prayed him to do so much for his word as to)Tj T* (atone for that hay. Then said Thorolf that he would do nought therefor but worsen Ulfar’s lot; and)Tj T* (therewith they parted.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now when Arnkel met Ulfar, he told him of Thorolf’s answer; but Ulfar deemed that Arnkel had)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (followed up his case coldly, and said that he might have had his way with his father if he had chosen to)Tj T* (do so.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So Arnkel paid Ulfar what he would for the hay; and when father and son next met, Arnkel claimed)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the price of the hay from his father, but Thorolf gave no better answers, and they parted in great wrath.)Tj T* (But the next autumn Arnkel let drive from the fells seven oxen of his father’s, and had them all)Tj T* (slaughtered for his own household needs. That misliked Thorolf beyond measure, and he claimed their)Tj T* (price of Arnkel; but he said that they should be in return for Ulfar’s hay. Then Thorolf liked matters a)Tj T* (great deal worse than before, and laid the whole thing on Ulfar, and said he should feel him therefor.)Tj ET endstream endobj 94 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 96 0 obj << /Length 3758 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 31 - Of Thorolf Halt-Foot And Snorri The Priest.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (That winter at Yule-tide had Thorolf a great drinking, and put the drink round briskly to his thralls, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (when they were drunk, he egged them on to go up to Ulfar’s-fell and burn Ulfar in his house, and)Tj T* (promised to give them their freedom therefor. The thralls.said they would do so much for their)Tj T* (freedom if he would hold to his word. Then they went six of them together to Ulfar’s-fell, and took a)Tj T* (brushwood stack, and dragged it to the homestead, and set fire therein.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At that time Arnkel and his men sat drinking at Lairstead, and when they went to bed they saw fire at)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Ulfar’s-fell. Then they went thereto forthwith, and took the thralls, and slaked the fire, and the houses)Tj T* (were but little burned.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The next morning Arnkel let bring the thralls to Vadils-head, and there were they all hanged.)Tj T* (Thereafter Ulfar handselled all his goods to Arnkel, who became guardian over him. But this)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (handselling misliked the sons of Thorbrand, because they deemed that to them belonged all the goods)Tj T* (after Ulfar their freedman, and much ill-will arose here from between Arnkel and Thorbrand’s sons.)Tj T* (Nor might they henceforth have games together, which they had hitherto held, turn and turn about; in)Tj T* (which games was Arnkel the strongest, but that man was the best to set against him, and the next)Tj T* (strongest, who was called Freystein Rascal, and was the foster-son of Thorbrand, and his adopted son;)Tj T* (for it was the talk of most men that his own son he was, but that his mother was a bondmaid. 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"Therefor am I come, because I am fain thou shouldst set my)Tj T* (matters straight, for I call thee chief of this countryside, and it is thy part to set right the lot of such)Tj T* (men as have been wronged already.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("By whose means is thy lot brought low, goodman?" said Snorri.)Tj T* ("Through Arnkel, my son," answers Thorolf.)Tj T* (Said Snorri: "Thou shouldst not make plaint of that, because that thou shouldst be of one mind with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (him in all things: withal he is a better man than thou.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("That is not the way of it," says he, "because now of all men he tramples most on me, and now will I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (be thy close friend, Snorri, if thou wilt but take up the blood-suit for my thralls whom Arnkel let slay,)Tj T* (nor will I bespeak all the blood-fines for myself.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Snorri answered: "I will not enter into the strife betwixt thee and thy son.")Tj T* (Says Thorolf: "Thou art no friend of Arnkel’s; but mayhap thou deemest me niggard of my money.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (But it shall not be so now," says he. "I know thou wouldst fain have Crowness, and the wood thereon,)Tj T* (which is the best possession in the countryside. Lo, I will handsel thee all that, if thou wilt but take up)Tj T* (the suit for my thralls, and follow it up so mightily that thou shalt grow greater thereby, but they shall)Tj T* (deem themselves put in the wrong who have wrought me shame; nor will I spare any man who has had)Tj T* (part therein, be he more or less my kinsman.")Tj ET endstream endobj 97 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 99 0 obj << /Length 3887 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now Snorri deemed that he needed the wood greatly; and so it is said that he took handsel of the land,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and took over the blood- suit for the thralls. But Thorolf rode home thereafter, and was well pleased)Tj T* (therewith. But that was not talked of over-well by other folk.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the spring Snorri set forth a case for the Thorsness Thing, at the hand of Arnkel, for the slaying of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the thralls. Both sides came thronging to the Thing, and Snorri pushed forward the case. 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And when it was paid, Snorri gave the purse to Thorolf,)Tj T* (who took it and said: "I had no mind when I gave thee my land, that thou wouldst follow up my suit)Tj T* (with so little manhood, and I wot that Arnkel would not have withheld from me such boot for my)Tj T* (thralls if I had left the matter to him.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Now I say," said Snorri, "that thou hast no shame herein, but I will not stake my worth against thy)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (evil lust and foul deeds.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf answers: "Most like it is that I shall not seek to thee in cases again; nor yet shall the woes of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (you folk of this country lie utterly asleep.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter men depart from the Thing, and Arnkel and Snorri misliked them of this end to the matter,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (but Thorolf thought worse yet of it, as was well meet.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 366.6001 Tm (Chapter 32 - The Slaying Of Ulfar; Thorbrand’s Sons Claim)Tj T* (The Heritage.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 322.0002 Tm (So it is said that this happened next to be told of, that Orlig of Orligstead fell sick, and when his)Tj T* (sickness grew heavy on him, Ulfar his brother sat ever by him. 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Arnkel said that Ulfar should not)Tj T* (be robbed of any man while their fellowship lasted and he might have his will.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorbrand’s sons fare away, and first out to Holyfell, and told this to Snorri the Priest, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (prayed him for his help in the case; but he said that he would not thrust into strife with Arnkel for this)Tj T* (case, whereas they had done their part so slippery, that Arnkel and Ulfar had first laid hands on the)Tj T* (goods. Then Thorbrand’s sons said that he would rule there no longer if he did not heed such things as )Tj T* (this.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The next autumn Arnkel had a great autumn feast in his house, and ever his wont was to ask Ulfar his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (friend to all biddings, and to see him off with gifts.)Tj ET endstream endobj 100 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 103 0 obj << /Length 4600 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now the day that men should depart from the feast at Lairstead, Thorolf Halt-foot rode from home,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and went to see his friend Cunning-Gils, who dwelt at Thorswater-dale at Cunning-Gils- stead, and)Tj T* (bade him ride with him east to Ulfar’s-fell-neck, and a thrall of Thorolf’s went with him, and when)Tj T* (they came on to the neck Thorolf said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("There will be Ulfar going from the feast, and belike he will journey with seemly gifts about him. Now)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (would I, Cunning-Gils," said he, "that thou go meet him and waylay him under the garth at)Tj T* (Ulfar’s-fell, and slay him, and therefor will I give thee three marks of silver, and pay all weregild for)Tj T* (the slaying; and then, when thou hast slain Ulfar, thou wilt have of him those good things which he has)Tj T* (had of Arnkel. Then shalt thou run along Ulfar’s-fell out to Crowness, and if any pursue thee let the)Tj T* (wood cover thee, and then come and see me, and I shall see to thee that thou shalt take no harm.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now whereas Cunning-Gils was a man of many children and very poor, he took the bait and went out)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (under the towngarth at Ulfar’s-fell, and there he saw how Ulfar came up from below with a good)Tj T* (shield and a fair-dight sword that Arnkel had given him. So when they met, Cunning-Gils prayed to)Tj T* (see the sword, and flattered Ulfar much, and said he was a great man, since he was deemed worthy to)Tj T* (have such seemly gifts from chiefs. Ulfar wagged his beard, and handed to him the sword and shield.)Tj T* (Cunning-Gils straightway drew the sword and thrust Ulfar through, and then took to his heels and ran)Tj T* (out along Ulfar’s-fell to Crowness.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arnkel was out a-doors and saw how a man ran bearing a shield, and thought he should know the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (shield, and it came into his mind that Ulfar would not have given it up of his own good will. Then)Tj T* (Arnkel called to his folk to run after the man; "and therewith," says he, "if this has befallen by my)Tj T* (father’s redes, and this man is Ulfar’s banesman, then shall ye slay him, whoso he is, and not let him)Tj T* (come before my eyes.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then went Arnkel up to Ulfar’s-fell, and there they found Ulfar dead. Thorolf Halt-foot saw)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Cunning-Gils run out along Ulfar’s-fell with the shield, and thought he knew how it had fared between)Tj T* (him and Ulfar. Then said he to his thrall that followed him: "Now shalt thou go to Karstead, and tell)Tj T* (Thorbrand’s sons to fare in to Ulfar’s-fell, and not let themselves be robbed this time of their)Tj T* (freedman’s heritage as before; because Ulfar is now slain." So thereafter Thorolf rode home, and)Tj T* (deemed he had done a good piece of business.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But those who ran after Cunning-Gils took him beneath a cliff which leads up from the sea. There they)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had a true tale out of him, and when he had told them all as it was, they slew him, and thrust him into)Tj T* (earth beneath the cliff, but took his spoil and brought it to Arnkel.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now the thrall of Thorolf came to Karstead, and told Thorbrand’s sons the message of Thorolf, and so)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they went in to Ulfar’s-fell; but when they came there, lo, there was Arnkel before them and many)Tj T* (men with him. Then Thorbrand’s sons gave out their claim to the goods that Ulfar had owned; but)Tj T* (Arnkel brought forward against it the witness of those who were near at the handsel Ulfar had given)Tj T* (him, and said that he would uphold it, because he said it had never been lawfully called in question,)Tj T* (and bade them make no claim to the money; for he said he would hold to it, even as if it were his)Tj T* (father’s heritage.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorbrand’s sons saw no choice but to come away, and they went once more out to Holyfell and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (found Snorri the Priest, and told him how things had befallen, and prayed for his help. Snorri said)Tj T* (things had gone as before, that they had been one move too late in the game for Arnkel; "and ye shall)Tj T* (not," said he, "grip out of Arnkel’s hands aught of these goods, seeing that he has already got the)Tj T* (chattels to him; and as to the lands, they lie about as near to one as to the other, and he will have them)Tj T* (who has the strongest hand. And this is to be looked for herein that Arnkel will have the greater share)Tj T* (of that, as in other dealings with you; and to tell truth, ye may well bear what many endure, because)Tj ET endstream endobj 104 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 106 0 obj << /Length 3666 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Arnkel rules now over every man’s fortune in this countryside, and will do while he lives, whether that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (be longer or shorter.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorleif Kimbi answered: "True say’st thou, Snorri, and I deem it is to be excused in thee, though thou)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (dost not set our matter with Arnkel right, since thou hast never held thine own against him in any due)Tj T* (case that ye have had to do with together.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter Thorbrand’s sons fared home, and took these things right heavily.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 621.8 Tm (Chapter 33 - Of The Death Of Thorolf Halt-Foot.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 597.6001 Tm (Now Snorri the Priest let work Crowness wood, and let much wood cutting go on. Thorolf Halt-foot)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thought that the wood was spoilt thereby, and rode out to Holyfell, and bade Snorri give back the)Tj T* (wood, and said that he had lent the wood and not given it. Snorri said that would be clearer when they)Tj T* (bore witness who were by at the handselling, and said that he would not give up the wood unless they)Tj T* (gave it against him. Then Thorolf took himself off, and was in the worst of minds. He rode in to)Tj T* (Lairstead to see his son Arnkel.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arnkel gave his father good welcome, and asked his errand there. Thorolf answered: "This is my)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (errand, that I see it is amiss that there should be ill-liking betwixt us, and now I will that we lay that)Tj T* (aside, and take to kindly ways. For unseemly it is for us to be at enmity together; and moreover it)Tj T* (seems to me that we should be great men here in the district with thy hardihood and my good counsel.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("The better it would like me," said Arnkel, "the closer we should draw together.")Tj T* ("Now will I," says Thorolf, "that this shall be the beginning of our peace-making and friendship, that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (we two claim Crowness wood of Snorri the Priest. It seems to me very ill that he should rule our)Tj T* (fortune, but now he will not give up to me my wood, and says I gave it him; and therein he lies," says )Tj T* (he.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arnkel answers: "Thou didst that for no friendship to me when thou gavest Snorri the wood, nor shall I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (do so much as for thy slandering to quarrel with Snorri about it; and though I wot that he has no due)Tj T* (title to the wood, yet will I not that thou have so much for thy lust for evil as to gladden thee by strife)Tj T* (twixt me and Snorri.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Methinks," said Thorolf, "that this comes rather from thy poor heart than because thou begrudgest me)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sport over your strife.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Think whatso true thou wilt," said Arnkel, "but as things stand, no strife will I have with Snorri for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the wood.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Therewith father and son parted, and Thorolf fared home and liked his lot exceeding ill, and thought)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that now he might scarce get his oar in.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf Halt-foot came home in the evening and spake to no man, but sat down in his high-seat and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (would eat no meat that night, and he sat there after men went to bed, and in the morning, when men)Tj T* (arose, there he sat on still, and was dead.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then the housewife sent a man to Arnkel, and bade him tell him of the death of his father. Then)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Arnkel rode up to Hvamm, and some of his home-men with him. And when they came to Hvamm,)Tj T* (then was Arnkel ware that his father was dead, and sat in his high-seat. But the folk were all full of)Tj T* (dread, because to all folk his face seemed loathsome.)Tj ET endstream endobj 107 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 109 0 obj << /Length 4048 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now Arnkel went into the fire-hall, and so up along it behind the seat at Thorolf’s back, and bade all)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (beware of facing him before lyke-help was given to him. Then Arnkel took Thorolf by the shoulders,)Tj T* (and must needs put forth all his strength before he brought him under. After that he swept a cloth about)Tj T* (Thorolf’s head, and then did to him according to custom. Then he let break down the wall behind him,)Tj T* (and brought him out thereby, and then were oxen yoked to a sledge, and thereon was Thorolf laid out,)Tj T* (and they drew him up into Thorswater-dale, and it was not without hard toil that he came to the stead)Tj T* (whereas he should lie.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (There they laid Thorolf in howe strongly; and then Arnkel rode to Hvamm and took to himself all the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (goods that were heaped up there, and which his father had owned. Arnkel was there three nights, and)Tj T* (nought happed to tell of the while, and thereafter he rode home.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 580 Tm (Chapter 34 - Thorolf Halt-Foot Walks; The Second Burial Of )Tj T* (Him.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 535.4 Tm (After the death of Thorolf Halt-foot many folk deemed it worse to be abroad as soon as the sun was)Tj T* (getting low. But as the summer wore, men were ware of this, that Thorolf lay not quiet, and men might)Tj T* (never be in peace abroad after sunset. 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So Arnkel bade all those abide with him who had liefer be there than elsewhere; but whereso)Tj T* (Arnkel was, no harm befell from Thorolf and his company.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So afeard were all men of this walking of Thorolf’s that none durst go a journey that winter, what)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (errands soever they had in the countryside. But when the winter had worn away the spring was fair;)Tj T* (and when the ice was off the earth, Arnkel sent a man into Karstead for the sons of Thorbrand, and)Tj T* (bade them go with him and bring Thorolf away from Thorswater-dale, and search for another abode)Tj T* (for him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then, according to the laws of that time, it was due, as now, for all men, to bring dead folks to burial,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (if they were so summoned.)Tj ET endstream endobj 110 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 112 0 obj << /Length 4074 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (But when the sons of Thorbrand heard that, they said it lay nowise on them to put away the troubles of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Arnkel or Arnkel’s men; but thereat the old carle Thorbrand answered and said: "Nay, need there is,")Tj T* (says he, "to fare on all such journeys as all men are bound in law to do, and that is now bidden of you)Tj T* (which it beseemeth you not to gainsay.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then said Thorod to the messenger: "Go thy ways and tell Arnkel that I will go on behalf of my)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brethren, and come to Ulfar’s-fell and meet him there.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now the messenger goes, and tells Arnkel, and he got ready to go, and he and his were twelve in all,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and had with them yoke-oxen and digging tools; and they went first to Ulfar’s-fell and met there)Tj T* (Thorod, Thorbrand’s son, and he and his were three.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They went up over the neck, and came into Thorswater-dale unto Thorolf’s howe, and broke it open,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and found Thorolf all undecayed, and most evil to look on.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They took him up from the grave, and laid him on a sledge, and yoked two strong oxen to it, and drew)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (him up to Ulfar’s-fell- neck, and by then were the oxen foundered, and others were taken that drew)Tj T* (him up on to the neck, and Arnkel was minded to bring him to Vadils-head, and lay him in earth there.)Tj T* (But when they came to the hill’s brow the oxen went mad, and broke loose forthright, and ran thence)Tj T* (away over the neck, and made out along the hillside above the garth of Ulfar’s-fell, and so out to sea,)Tj T* (and by then were both bursten.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But Thorolf was by then so heavy, that they could bring him no further; so they bore him to a little)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (headland that was there beside, and laid him in earth there, and that is called sithence Halt-foot’s Head.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then let Arnkel raise a wall across the headland landward of the howe, so high that none might come)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thereover but fowl flying, and there are yet signs thereof. There lay Thorolf quiet as long as Arnkel )Tj T* (lived.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 366.6001 Tm (Chapter 35 - Arnkel Slays Hawk.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 342.4001 Tm (Snorri the Priest let work Crowness wood for all that Thorolf Halt-foot had raised question about it;)Tj T* (but that was seen of Arnkel that he deemed that the title of that wood had not gone according to law,)Tj T* (and he deemed that Thorolf had beguiled him of his heritage in that he had given the wood to Snorri)Tj T* (the Priest.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now one summer Snorri the Priest sent his thralls to work in the wood, and they cut there much timber)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and piled it together, and then went home. Now while the timber was seasoning, the rumour ran that)Tj T* (Arnkel would go fetch it. So it fell not out; but he bade a herdsman of his watch when Snorri the Priest)Tj T* (let fetch the timber, and tell him thereof. But when the wood was dry, Snorri sent three thralls of his to)Tj T* (fetch it; and he got Hawk, his follower, to go with the thralls for their aid. So they go, and bind the)Tj T* (wood on twelve horses, and then take their way home. Arnkel’s herdsman was ware of their ways, and)Tj T* (told him thereof. He took his weapons and went after them, and came up with them west of Svelgriver)Tj T* (twixt it and the Knolls, but as soon as he came up with them, Hawk leapt off his horse and thrust at)Tj T* (Arnkel with a spear, and smote his shield, yet he gat no wound. Then Arnkel sprang from his horse)Tj T* (and thrust with a spear at Hawk, and smote him in the midst, and he fell there on the place which is)Tj T* (now called Hawks-river.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when the thralls saw the fall of Hawk, they took to their heels and ran off on their way home, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Arnkel chased them all along beyond Oxbrents, and then turned back and drave home with him the)Tj T* (wood-horses, and took the wood off them, and then let them loose, and bound the load-ropes on them,)Tj ET endstream endobj 113 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 115 0 obj << /Length 3252 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (and they were then turned on their way out along the fell, and they went till they came home to )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Holyfell.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now were these tidings told, but all was quiet through those seasons; but the next spring Snorri the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Priest set on foot a suit for the slaying of Hawk to be heard at the Thorsness Thing, and Arnkel another)Tj T* (for an onslaught for the unhallowing of Hawk. Both sides had great followings at the Thing, and men)Tj T* (pushed forward the cases eagerly, but such was the end of it that Hawk was made guilty for the)Tj T* (onslaught, and Snorri the Priest was nonsuited.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Therewith men ride home from the Thing, and there was much ill- blood betwixt men throughout the )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (summer.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 582.2001 Tm (Chapter 36 - Thorleif Would Slay Arnkel, And Is Slain.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 558.0001 Tm (There was a man called Thorleif, an Eastfirther, who had been found guilty of an affair with a woman.)Tj T* (He came to Holyfell in the autumn, and prayed Snorri the Priest to take him in, but he put him off, and)Tj T* (they talked long together or ever he got him gone. 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Thorleif took it)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (up, and heaved it up swiftly over his head with the mind to bring it down on Arnkel’s skull, but Arnkel)Tj T* (heard the whistle of it and ran in under the stroke, and heaved up Thorleif by the breast, and soon was)Tj T* (proven the measure of either’s strength, for Arnkel was wondrous strong. So he cast Thorleif down)Tj T* (with so great a fall that he lay stunned, and the adze flew out of his hand, and Arnkel got hold thereof)Tj T* (and smote it into Thorleif’s head, and gave him his death-wound.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So the rumour ran that it was Snorri the Priest who sent that man for Arnkel’s head, but Snorri made as)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (if the story had nought to do with him, and let folk say what they would. And so those seasons slipped)Tj T* (away that nought else is to be told of.)Tj ET endstream endobj 116 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 118 0 obj << /Length 3426 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 37 - The Slaying Of Arnkel.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (The autumn after, at winter-nights, Snorri the Priest had a great autumn-feast, and bade his friends)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thereto. Ale drinking they had thereat, and folk drank fast and were very merry with ale.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now the talk fell on pairing men together by their worth, and as to who was the noblest man in the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (countryside or the greatest chief, and thereon were men not at one, as oft it haps when the talk falls on)Tj T* (likening man to man. 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Freystein Rascal watched)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sheep in Swanfirth, and he was set to spy out an occasion against Arnkel.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arnkel was a great man for work, and made his thralls work all day from sunrise to sunset. He had)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (under him both the lands of Ulfar’s-fell and Orligstead, for no one could be got to dwell on the lands)Tj T* (for fear of the violence of Thorbrand’s sons. Now in the winter it was Arnkel’s wont to carry hay from)Tj T* (Orligstead in the night in the new moons, because the thralls did other work at home by day. Nor did)Tj T* (he heed if Thorbrand’s sons were unware of the carrying of hay. Now on a night of winter before)Tj ET endstream endobj 119 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 121 0 obj << /Length 4145 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Yule, Arnkel arose and waked three of his thralls, one of whom was called Ofeig. 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And when they came to the bottom of the firth,)Tj T* (Thorbrand’s sons came to meet them, and were six in company.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then they fared up to Orligstead, and by then they came there, one of the thralls had gone home with a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (load of hay, and Arnkel and the others were busy on a second.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then saw Arnkel and his folk how armed men came up from the sea, and Ofeig said thereon that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (unpeace was at hand, and there was nought for it but to get them gone homeward.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arnkel answered: "Good rede can I give thereto, and now shall we each of us do what each best liketh.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Ye shall run home and wake up my following, and they will come quickly to meet me, but here in the)Tj T* (rickyard is a good place to make a stand, and from hence will I defend myself if they come in warlike)Tj T* (wise, for that meseems is better than running; nor shall I soon be overcome, and speedily will my men)Tj T* (come to me, if ye do your errands in manly wise.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So when Arnkel had thus made an end of speaking, the thralls set off a-running; and Ofeig was the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (swiftest, but so afeard he was that he well-nigh went out of his wits, and ran off into the mountain and)Tj T* (fell into a force there and was lost, and that is since called Ofeig’s-force. The other thrall ran home to)Tj T* (the stead, and when he came to the haybarn there was his fellow- thrall before him carrying in the hay.)Tj T* (He called to the thrall as he ran to help bear in the hay to him, and belike the thrall was nowise loth of)Tj T* (that work, so he went to help him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now it is to be said of Arnkel that he knew how Snorri the Priest and his folk went there, and he tore)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the runner from under the sledge, and had it up into the garth with him. The garth was very high)Tj T* (outside, and within it was heaped up high as well; and a good fighting-stead it was. 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Then Arnkel leapt up on to the hayrick, and defended himself thence for a space, but such was the)Tj T* (end of the matter that he fell, and they covered him over there in the garth with hay; and thereafter)Tj T* (Snorri and his folk fared home to Holyfell.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Over the slaying of Arnkel, Thormod Trefilson made this stave:)Tj ET endstream endobj 122 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 124 0 obj << /Length 3160 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("Snorri the fight-strong)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Fetched for the wound-fowl)Tj T* (Full feed with war-sword --)Tj T* (Young he, and fame-fulfilled.)Tj T* (O feeders of battle-fowl,)Tj T* (Wild-fire of battle-storm)Tj T* (Clave the life’s coffer,)Tj T* (Where Snorri felled Arnkel.")Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 617.4 Tm (Chapter 38 - The Blood-Suit For Arnkel.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 593.2 Tm (After the slaying of Arnkel, the heritage and blood-suit fell to women, and for this reason the)Tj T* (blood-suit was not pushed forward so strongly as men deemed they might have looked for over so)Tj T* (noble a man. 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In those days was it the wont of chapmen to have no cooks, but the)Tj T* (messmates chose by lot from amongst themselves who should have the ward of the mess day by day.)Tj T* (Then too was it the wont of all the shipmen to have their drink in common, and a cask should stand by)Tj T* (the mast with the drink therein, and a locked lid was over it. But some of the drink was in tuns, and)Tj T* (was added to the cask thence as soon as it was drunk out.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now when they were nigh ready there came one forth upon the ledge of rock by the booths. This man)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was great of growth, and had a bundle on his back, and seemed to men somewhat uncouth. He asked)Tj T* (for the ship-master, and he was shown to his booth. So he laid down his bag at the booth-door and)Tj T* (went into the booth, and asked if the skipper would give him a passage over the sea.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They asked him of his name, and he called himself Arnbiorn, the son of Asbrand of Combe, and said)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he fain would fare out and seek Biorn his brother, who had gone out some winters before, and had not)Tj T* (been heard of since he went to Denmark.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The Eastmen said that the bulk was bound down, and they deemed it might not be undone. He said he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had not more faring goods than might lie on the top of the bulk. 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So they lay there three nights before they had a wind for land; then they)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brought their goods ashore.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorleif guested there, but Arnbiorn took ship with certain traders east to Wick, and thence to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Denmark to seek for his brother Biorn.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 430.4001 Tm (Chapter 40 - Of Biorn, The Champion Of The Broadwickers,)Tj T* (And His Dealings With Thurid Of Frodis-Water.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 385.8001 Tm (Thorleif Kimbi was two winters in Norway, and then went back to Iceland with the same chapmen as)Tj T* (he had fared out with. They made Broadfirth and came to Daymeal-ness, and Thorleif went home to)Tj T* (Swanfirth in the autumn, and made much of himself as his manner was.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That same summer came out to Lavahaven-mouth those brothers Biorn and Arnbiorn, and Biorn was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (afterwards called the Champion of the Broadwickers. Arnbiorn had by then brought home a pretty)Tj T* (penny; and as soon as he came aland that summer he bought him land at Bank in Lavahaven, and set)Tj T* (up house there the next spring. That winter he spent at Cnear with Thord Walleye, his brother-in-law.)Tj T* (Arnbiorn was not a man for show, and was of few words in most matters, yet the stoutest and manliest)Tj T* (of men in every wise. But Biorn his brother was a very stately man when he came out, and fair was his)Tj T* (mien, for that he had shaped himself after the customs of outland chiefs. A far goodlier man was he)Tj T* (than Arnbiorn, and in nothing of less skill than he, and in hardihood far more proven, for thereby he)Tj T* (had gained renown in the outlands.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now in the summer, when these were new come out, was appointed a great meeting of men north of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the heath under Howebrent, in from Frodismouth. So those chapmen rode thither all of them, in)Tj T* (coloured raiment, and when they came to the assembly, there were many there before them, and)Tj T* (Thurid withal the goodwife of Frodis-water, and Biorn went to talk with her; and no man laid a word)Tj T* (on them therefor, for they deemed that it was to be looked for that they should have much to say to)Tj T* (each other, so long as it was since they met last.)Tj ET endstream endobj 128 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 130 0 obj << /Length 3685 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now that day men gave and took wounds, and one man from the Northcountry-men was brought to his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (death, and he was borne into a copse that was on the ere, and much blood ran from his wounds, and)Tj T* (there stood a pool of blood in the copse. There was the youngling Kiartan, the son of Thurid of)Tj T* (Frodis-water, with a little axe in his hand; he ran to the copse, and dipped the axe in the blood.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when the folk from the south side of the heath rode south from the meeting, Thord Walleye asked)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Biorn how things had gone in the talk betwixt him and Thurid of Frodis-water. Biorn seemed well)Tj T* (pleased thereabout. Then Thord asked Biorn if he had seen that day the youngling Kiartan, the son of)Tj T* (Thurid and Thorod and them all together.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Yea, I saw him," cried Biorn.)Tj T* ("In what wise didst thou deem of him?" said Thord.)Tj T* (Then sang Biorn this stave:)Tj T* ("The young tree I saw there, the eager-eyed sapling,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The youngling, the very own image of her,)Tj T* (That gem-bestrewn table; he ran to the tree-grove,)Tj T* (Whence the brook of the Wolf, even Fenrir, was welling.)Tj T* (They who waste wide the flame of Morn’s river, meseemeth)Tj T* (Have been hitherto heedful to hide from the stripling)Tj T* (The name of the father who erewhile begat him,)Tj T* (He who speedeth the steeds of the streams of the Ocean.")Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 417.2001 Tm (Chapter 41 - Of Thorleif Kimbi And Thord Wall-Eye.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 393.0002 Tm (That same spring at the Thorsness Thing, Thorleif Kimbi fell to wooing a wife, and prayed for Helga,)Tj T* (daughter of Thorlak of Ere, and sister of Steinthor of that ilk; and Thormod her brother pressed this)Tj T* (forward most, he who had to wife Thorgerd, daughter of Thorbrand, and sister of Thorleif Kimbi. But)Tj T* (when the matter came before Steinthor, he took it up coldly, and must ask counsel of his brothers. So)Tj T* (then they went to Thord Wall-eye, and when the matter was laid before him, he answered thus:
"I)Tj T* (will not put this affair off on to other men, for herein may I be the shaper; so this I have to say to thee,)Tj T* (Thorleif, that first must the porridge spots on thy neck be healed, wherewith thou wast burnt when)Tj T* (thou wast beaten in Norway three winters agone, or ever I give thee my sister.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorleif answered: "I know not what my fortune may be therein; but whether that be avenged or not,")Tj 0 -1.2 TD (says he, "my will it is that three winters pass not ere thou be beaten.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thord answered: "I sit without fear in despite of thy threats.")Tj T* (But the next morning men had a turf-play beside the booth of the sons of Thorbrand, and as Thorlak’s)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sons passed by, forth flew a great piece of turf, and smote Thord Wall-eye under the poll, and so great)Tj T* (was the stroke, that he fell heels over head; but when he arose, he saw that Thorbrand’s sons were)Tj T* (laughing at him hugely. Then Thorlak’s sons turned back and drew their swords, and they ran to meet)Tj T* (one another, and forthwithal they fought together, and some were wounded, but none slain.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Steinthor had not been there, for he had been in talk with Snorri the Priest. So when they were parted,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (folk strove to bring about peace; and so it was settled that Snorri and Steinthor should be umpires in)Tj T* (the matter. So the wounds of men and the onset were set one against the other, but the remnant over)Tj T* (was atoned for; and all were called at one again whenas they rode home.)Tj ET endstream endobj 131 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 134 0 obj << /Length 4139 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 42 - Thorbrand’s Sons Make An Onslaught On )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Arnbiorn.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 692 Tm (That summer a ship came out into Lavahaven-mouth, and another to Daymealness. Snorri the Priest)Tj T* (rode to the ship at Lavahaven, and fourteen men with him; but when they came south over the heath to)Tj T* (Dufgusdale, six men all-armed rode after them, and there were the sons of Thorbrand. Snorri asked)Tj T* (whither they were minded to fare, but they said they would go to the ship at Lavahaven-mouth. Snorri)Tj T* (said that he would do their errands for them, and bade them go back home and not raise quarrels)Tj T* (betwixt men; and he said that often little was needed for that matter among those who were unfriends)Tj T* (together already, if they should chance to meet.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorleif Kimbi answered: "It shall not be told of us that we durst not ride through the countryside)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (because of the Broadwickers; but thou mayest well ride home, if thou darest not to ride on thy ways)Tj T* (when thou hast an errand.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Snorri answered nought, and so they rode forth over the necks, and so forth to Templegarth, and then)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (west over the sands along the sea; but when they came anigh to the Mouth, Thorbrand’s sons rode)Tj T* (from the company up to Bank; and when they came to the homestead they leapt off their horses and)Tj T* (were minded to enter, but might not break open the door. 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Then Snorri bade them begone thence, nor work any unpeaceful deeds in)Tj T* (his company, so whereas they had got no entrance there, they even gave up the onset as Snorri bade,)Tj T* (and rode thereafter to the ship with Snorri.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now those of Broadwick came to the ship that same day, and either side went with their own band,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and great ill-will there was, and cross looks enow, but neither side set on another, yet the men of)Tj T* (Broadwick were the most in number at the market. Snorri the Priest rode in the evening south to)Tj T* (Templegarth, whereas Biorn dwelt as then with his son Guest, who was the father of Templegarth-Ref.)Tj T* (The folk of Biorn the Champion of the Broadwickers offered Arnbiorn to ride after those of Snorri the)Tj T* (Priest, but Arnbiorn would not have it so, but said that each should have what he had got. Those of)Tj T* (Snorri rode home the next day, and the sons of Thorbrand were worse content with their lot than)Tj T* (heretofore. And now the autumn began to wear.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 167.4 Tm (Chapter 43 - Of Egil The Strong.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 143.1999 Tm (Now goodman Thorbrand had a thrall who was called Egil the Strong, the biggest and strongest of)Tj T* (men, and he thought his life ill in that he was no free man, and would oft pray Thorbrand and his sons)Tj T* (to give him his freedom, and offered to do therefor any such work as he might. So one evening Egil)Tj T* (went with his sheep out to Burgdale in Swanfirth, and as the evening grew late, he saw an erne fly)Tj T* (from the west over the firth. Now a great deerhound was with Egil, and lo, the erne swooped on the)Tj ET endstream endobj 135 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 137 0 obj << /Length 3900 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (hound, and took him up in her claws, and flew back west over the firth straight for the howe of Thorolf)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Haltfroot, and vanished there, under the mountain; and a foreboding of tidings Thorbrand deemed this.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now it was the wont of the Broadwickers in autumn, about the time of winter-nights, to have ball-play)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (under the shoulder south of Cnear, and the place thereafter was called the Playhall-meads, and men)Tj T* (betook themselves thither from all the countryside, and great play-halls were made there, wherein men)Tj T* (abode and dwelt there a half month or more. Many chosen men there were as then in the countryside,)Tj T* (and it was thickly peopled. Most of the young men were at the plays, except Thord Wall-eye; but he)Tj T* (might not deal therein because of his too great eagerness, though he was not so strong that he might)Tj T* (not play for that cause. So he sat on a chair and looked on the play. Those brethren withal, Biorn and)Tj T* (Arnbiorn, were not deemed meet to play because of their strength, unless they played one against the )Tj T* (other.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That same autumn Thorbrand’s sons fell to talk with Egil that he should go to the ball-play and slay)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (some one of the Broadwickers, either Biorn or Thord or Arnbiorn, in some wise, and that he should)Tj T* (have his freedom after therefor; and some men say that that was done by Snorri’s rede, and that he had)Tj T* (so counselled that the thrall should try if he might get into the hall by stealth, and thence whereas he)Tj T* (lurked do somewhat for the wounding of men; and he bade him go down the pass which is above)Tj T* (Playhalls, and go down thence when the meal-fires were kindled; for he said it was mostly the way of)Tj T* (the weather that a wind would blow off the lava in the evening and drive the smoke up into the pass.)Tj T* (So he bade him abide his time to go down till the pass should be full of smoke.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil betook himself to this journey, and went first west over the firths, and asked after the sheep of the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Swanfirthers, and made as if he were going a sheep-gleaning.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now whilst he was on his way, Freystein Rascal was to watch the sheep in Swanfirth. So in the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (evening, when Egil had gone from home, Freystein went west over the river to the sheep, and when he)Tj T* (came to that scree which is called Geirvor, and which goes down west of the river, he saw a man’s)Tj T* (head lying trunkless there and uncovered, and the head sang this stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("With man’s blood Geirvor)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Is reddened over,)Tj T* (The skulls of men-folk)Tj T* (Shall she cover.")Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 285.2001 Tm (Chapter 44 - The Battle In Swanfirth.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 261.0001 Tm (Snorri the Priest had sent word to his neighbours that they should bring their boats under)Tj T* (Redwick-head; and he went thither with his home-men as soon as Steinthor’s messenger was gone;)Tj T* (and he went not before, because he thought he saw that the man had been sent to spy over his doings.)Tj T* (So Snorri went up Swanfirth, and had nigh fifty men with three keels, and came to Karstead before)Tj T* (Steinthor and his men. But when folk saw the coming of Steinthor and his men, the sons of Thorbrand)Tj T* (cried out to go meet them, "and let them not get entry into the home-field, for that we have both a great)Tj T* (company and a goodly.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now they who were there were eighty men. But Snorri said: "Nay, we will not ward the homestead)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (from them, and Steinthor shall have the law, for peaceably and wisely will he fare in his redes. So I)Tj T* (will that all men abide within, and let no man cast any vain words at them in such wise as that the)Tj T* (troubles of men be eked thereby.")Tj ET endstream endobj 138 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 140 0 obj << /Length 4002 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (With that all men went into the chamber, and men sat on the benches. 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Then she went into the chamber and said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Yea, both things are true, that Steinthor of Ere is a manly man, and moreover that he spoke well when)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he brought the thrall’s- gild.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Thorleif Kimbi heard that, he ran out with the other sons of Thorbrand, and then all went)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (forth who were in the chamber. Thorleif came first to the door, and saw where Thord Walleye stood)Tj T* (before the doorway with his shield; but even therewith Steinthor went forth into the homefield.)Tj T* (Thorleif took a spear which stood there in the doorway, and thrust it at Thord Wall-eye, and the thrust)Tj T* (smote his shield and glanced off it unto the shoulder, and that was a great wound. After this men ran)Tj T* (out and there was battle in the home-mead, and Steinthor was of the eagerest, and smote on either hand)Tj T* (of him. But when Snorri the Priest came out he bade men stay the unpeace, and bade Steinthor ride)Tj T* (away from the homestead, and said that he would not suffer men to ride after them. So Steinthor and)Tj T* (his folks fared adown the mead, and men parted in such wise.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Snorri the Priest came back to the door, there stood Thorod his son with a great wound in his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (shoulder, and he was then twelve winters old. Snorri asked who had brought that about.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Steinthor of Ere," said he.)Tj T* (And Thorleif Kimbi answered and said: "Now has he rewarded thee in meet wise, for that thou)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (wouldst not have us chase him; but my rede it is that we part not thus.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Yea, so shall it be now," said Snorri, "that we shall have more dealings with them." And he bade)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorleif withal tell the men to follow after them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Steinthor and his folk were come down from the field when they saw the chase, and therewith)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they crossed the river and turned up on to the scree Geirvor, and made them ready for a stand; for a)Tj T* (good fighting-stead was that because of the stones. But as Snorri’s company came up the scree,)Tj T* (Steinthor cast a spear over Snorri’s folk for his good luck, according to ancient custom; but the spear)Tj T* (sought a mark for itself, and in its way was Mar, the kinsman of Snorri, who was straightway put out)Tj T* (of the fight. 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He made most for the place whereas was Snorri the Priest.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Stir Thorgrimson set on fiercely with Steinthor his kinsman, and his first hap was that he slew a man)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of the fo1k of Snorri the Priest, his son-in-law; but when Snorri saw that he cried to Stir:)Tj ET endstream endobj 141 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 143 0 obj << /Length 3323 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("Thus, forsooth, thou avengest Thorod, the son of thy daughter, whom Steinthor of Ere has brought)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (unto death; the greatest of dastards art thou.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Stir looked on him and said: "Speedily I may atone for that;" and he shifted his shield withal, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (turned to the side of Snorri the Priest, and slew another man, but this time a man of Steinthor’s band.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now even herewith came up from Longdale the father and son, Aslak and Illugi the Red, and sought to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (go between them. Thirty men they had with them, and to that company joined himself Vermund the )Tj T* (Slender.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So then they prayed Snorri the Priest to let stay the slaughter of men, and Snorri bade the Ere-dwellers)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (come up and make a truce. Then Aslak, he and his, bade Steinthor take truce for his men. So Steinthor)Tj T* (bade Snorri reach forth his hand, and he did so; but therewith Steinthor raised his sword aloft and cut)Tj T* (at Snorri’s arm, and great was the clatter of the stroke, for it smote the stall-ring, and well-nigh struck)Tj T* (it asunder, but Snorri was nowise wounded.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then cried out Thorod Thorbrandson: "No truce will they have! Well then, let us set on, and stay not)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (till all the sons of Thorlak are slain.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But Snorri the Priest answered: "Turmoil enow it would bring to the countryside if all sons of Thorlak)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (were slain, and the truce shall be holden to if Steinthor will, after the word aforesaid.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then all bade Steinthor take the truce; and things went so far, that a truce was declared betwixt man)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and man until such time as they came back each one to his home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now it is to be told of the Broadwick folk that they knew how Snorri the Priest had fared with a flock)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to Swanfirth. So they take their horses and ride after Steinthor at their swiftest, and they were on)Tj T* (Ulfar’s-fell-neck whiles the fight was on the scree; and some men say that Snorri the Priest saw Biorn)Tj T* (and his folk as they came up on the hill’s brow, whenas he happened to turn and face them, and that)Tj T* (for that cause he was so easy in the terms of the truce with Steinthor and his men.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So when Biorn and Steinthor met at Orligstead, Biorn said that matters had gone even after his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (guessing. "And my rede it is," said he, "that ye turn back now, and drive them hard.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But Steinthor said: "Nay, I will hold to the truce I have made with Snorri the Priest, in whatso ways)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (matters may go betwixt us hereafter.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter they ride each to his own home, but Thord Wall-Eye lay wounded at Ere. In the fight at)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Swanfirth five men had fallen of Steinthor’s company, and two of Snorri the Priest; but many were)Tj T* (wounded on either side, for the fight had been of the hardest. So says Thorrood Trefilson in his )Tj T* (Raven-lay:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("The feeder of swans)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Of wound-wave, in Swanfirth)Tj T* (Made the erne full)Tj T* (With feeding of wolfs’ meat.)Tj T* (There then, let Snorri)Tj T* (Of five men the life-days)Tj T* (Cut off in sword-storm:)Tj T* (Such way shall foes pay.")Tj ET endstream endobj 144 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 146 0 obj << /Length 4402 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 45 - The Battle In Swordfirth.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (That summer, before the fight was in Swanfirth, a ship had come to Daymeal-ness, as is aforesaid.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Now Steinthor of Ere had bought a ten-oarer at the ship; but when he was to bring it home there fell on)Tj T* (him a great gale from the west, and they drave east past Thors-ness, and landed at Thinghall-ness, and)Tj T* (laid the keel up in Gruflunaust, and went thence afoot over the necks to Bank, and thence fared home)Tj T* (in a boat; but the ten-oarer he had not been able to go fetch through the autumn, so it lay still at )Tj T* (Gruflunaust.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But one morning a little before Yule, Steinthor rose early, and said that he would go fetch his craft that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (lay east at Thinghall- ness; and there betook them to faring with him his brothers Bergthor and Thord)Tj T* (Wall-eye, whose wound was by now pretty much healed, so that he was meet enow to carry weapons.)Tj T* (Withal in Steinthor’s company were two Eastmen, and they were eight in all.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So they were ferried over the firth into Dairyhead, and they went afoot in towards Bank, and thence)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (came Thormod, their brother, who made the ninth of them. Now the ice stretched from)Tj T* (Templesteadwick right up to Much Bank, and they went up along the ice, and so over the neck to)Tj T* (Swordfirth, which lay all under ice. Such is the way of it, that when the sea ebbs, it leaves it all dry,)Tj T* (and the ice lies on the mud at the ebb; but the skerries that were in the firth stood up above the ice,)Tj T* (which was much broken about one of them, and the icefloes sloped down steeply from the skerry.)Tj T* (Loose snow withal had fallen on the ice, and very slippery it was thereon.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Steinthor and his folk went to Thinghall-ness, and pushed out the boat from the boatstand, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (took out of her both oars and deck, and laid them down on the ice, together with their clothes and the)Tj T* (heaviest of their weapons. Then they dragged the craft in along the firth, and then west over the low)Tj T* (neck to Templesteadwick, and right out to the edge of the ice; and then went after their clothes and the)Tj T* (other matters. But as they went back into Swordfirth, they saw six men going from the south from)Tj T* (Thinghall-ness, who went a great pace over the ice, and made for Holyfell. Then Steinthor and his men)Tj T* (misdoubted them, that there would be going the sons of Thorbrand minded for the Yule-feast at)Tj T* (Holyfell. Then Steinthor with his folk went swiftly out over the firth to the place where lay their)Tj T* (clothes and weapons; and so it was as Steinthor had deemed, and these men were the sons of )Tj T* (Thorbrand.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So when these beheld men running down the firth, they deemed they knew who they were, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thought the men of Ere were fain to meet them. So they fell to going at a great pace, and made for the)Tj T* (skerry with the mind to make a stand there; and in this wise each came nigh to meeting the other, yet)Tj T* (the sons of Thorbrand reached the skerry first. But as Steinthor and his folk came forth past the skerry,)Tj T* (Thorleif Kimbi let drive a spear against their flock, and it smote Bergthor, son of Thorlak, in the midst,)Tj T* (and straightway was he put out of the fight. Then he went away out on to the ice, and lay down, and)Tj T* (Steinthor and his folk set on toward the skerry, but some went after their weapons. 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I will that thou prove ere we part whether I bear a soft brand or not.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now slow work was the winning of the skerry, but when they had been thereat a long while, Thord)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Wall-eye made a dash at it, and would thrust at Thorleif Kimbi with a spear, for he was ever the)Tj T* (foremost of his men. The thrust smote the shield of Thorleif, but even as Thord Wall-eye laboured)Tj T* (over the blow his feet failed him on the slippery floe, and he fell on his back and slipped headforemost)Tj T* (down from the skerry. Thorleif Kimbi leapt after him to smite him dead before he could get to his feet)Tj T* (again, and Freystein Rascal followed Thorleif, and he had shoe-spikes on his feet. Then Steinthor ran)Tj T* (thereto, and cast his shield over Thord even as Thorleif fetched a blow at him, and with the other hand)Tj T* (he smote at Thorleif Kimbi, and smote the leg from him below the knee; and while that was a-doing)Tj T* (Freystein Rascal thrust at Steinthor, aiming at his middle; and when Steinthor saw that, he leapt up)Tj T* (aloft, and the thrust went between his legs, and these three things, whereof we have told even now, he)Tj T* (did in one and the same nick of time. Then he ran to Freystein, and smote him on the neck with his)Tj T* (sword, and loud was the clatter of that stroke. So he cried withal: "Art smitten, Rascal?")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Smitten forsooth," said Freystein, "but yet no more than thou didst deem, for no wound have I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (therefrom." For in a hooded hat of felt was Freystein, with horn sewn into the neck thereof, and on that)Tj T* (had the stroke fallen.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Freystein Rascal turned back skerryward, but Steinthor bade him run not, since he had no)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (wound, and Freystein turned him round on the skerry, and now they made at each other hard and fast.)Tj T* (Steinthor was in great risk of falling, for the floe was both steep and slippery, but Freystein stood firm)Tj T* (on his spiked shoes, and smote both hard and oft; but such was the end of their dealings, that Steinthor)Tj T* (brought his sword down on Freystein above his hips, and smote the man asunder in the midst.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then they went on to the skerry, and stayed not till all Thorbrand’s sons were fallen. Then cried out)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thord Wall-eye that they should go betwixt head and trunk of all the sons of Thorbrand, but Steinthor)Tj T* (said he had no will to bear weapons on men who lay alow.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So they came down from the skerry, and went to where Bergthor lay, who scarce had might to speak.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (So they brought him with them in over the ice, and so over the neck to the boat, and rowed in the boat)Tj T* (out to Bank in the evening.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now a shepherd of Snorri’s had been at Oxbrents that day, and saw thence the fight at Swordfirth. So)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he went home straightway, and told Snorri the Priest how there had been a meeting that day at)Tj T* (Swordfirth nowise friendly. So Snorri and his folk took their weapons, and went into the firth nine in)Tj T* (company; but when they came there, Steinthor and his men had gone their ways and come aboard off)Tj T* (the ice of the firth.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Snorri looked to the wounded men, and there was none slain save Freystein Rascal, but they)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (were all nigh wounded to death.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorleif Kimbi cried out to Snorri, bidding go after Steinthor and his folk, and let no one of them)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (escape. So Snorri the Priest went there whereas Bergthor had lain, and saw there great gouts of blood.)Tj T* (Then he took up in his hand together blood and snow, and crushed it up, and put it in his mouth, and)Tj T* (asked who had bled there. And Thorleif said it was Bergthor who had bled. Then Snorri said it was)Tj T* (life-blood. "Like enow," said Thorleif; "from a spear it came.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Methinks," says Snorri, "that is the blood of a doomed man; so we will not follow after them.")Tj ET endstream endobj 150 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 152 0 obj << /Length 4072 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Then were Thorbrand’s sons brought home to Holyfell and their wounds bound up. Thorod)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorbrandson had so great a wound in the back of his neck that he might not hold his head straight; he)Tj T* (had on hose-breeches withal, and they were all wet with blood. A home-man of Snorri the Priest was)Tj T* (about pulling them off; but when he fell to stripping them he could not get them off. Then he said: "No)Tj T* (lie is that concerning you sons of Thorbrand, when folk say ye are showy men, whereas ye wear)Tj T* (clothes so tight that they may not come off you.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorod said: "Belike thou pullest slovenly." And therewith the home-man set his feet against the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (bed-stock and pulled with all his might, but yet gat them off none the more.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Snorri the Priest went thereto, and felt along his leg, and found a spear stuck through his leg)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (between the hough sinew and the leg bone, that had nailed together the leg and the breeches. Then said)Tj T* (Snorri that the thrall was a measureless fool not to have thought of such a thing.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Snorri Thorbrandson was the briskest of those brothers, and he sat at table beside his namesake that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (evening. Curds and cheese they had to meat, but Snorri noted that his namesake made but little play)Tj T* (with the cheese, and asked why he eat so slowly.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Snorri Thorbrandson answered that lambs found it the hardest to eat when they were first gagged.)Tj T* (Then Snorri the Priest drew his hand down his throat, and found an arrow sticking athwart his gullet)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and the roots of the tongue. Then Snorri the Priest took drawing-tongs and pulled out the arrow, and)Tj T* (then Snorri Thorbrandson fell to his meat.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Snorri the Priest healed all the sons of Thorbrand. But when Thorod’s neck grew together his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (head sat somewhat drawn backwards on his trunk, and he said that Snorri would heal him into a)Tj T* (maimed man. Snorri said that he deemed the head would come straight when the sinews were knit)Tj T* (together; but Thorod would have nought but that the wound should be torn open again, and the head)Tj T* (set straighter. But all went as Snorri had guessed, and as soon as the sinews were knit together the)Tj T* (head came right; yet little might Thord lout ever after. Thorleif Kimbi thenceforth went mostly with)Tj T* (wooden leg.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 327.0001 Tm (Chapter 46 - The Peace-Making After These Battles.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 302.8001 Tm (Now when Steinthor of Ere and his men came to the boatstand at Bank, there they put up their craft,)Tj T* (and the brothers went home to their steading, and the body of Bergthor was covered over with a tilt for)Tj T* (the night. It is told that goodwife Thorgerd would not go to bed that night to Thormod her husband.)Tj T* (But even therewith a man came up from the boatstand and told how Bergthor was dead; and when that)Tj T* (was known she went to bed, nor is it said that any quarrel fell out betwixt them afterwards.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Steinthor went home to Ere in the morning, and no more fighting there was thenceforth through the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (winter. But in the spring, whenas time wore on to the days of summoning, men of good will bethought)Tj T* (them that things had got to a sad plight, inasmuch as those men were unappeased and at strife together,)Tj T* (who were the greatest in the countryside. So the best men who were friends of either side so brought it)Tj T* (about that it came to seeking for peace betwixt them. And Vermund the Slender was chief of these,)Tj T* (and with him were many men of good will, such as were allied to one side or the other, and thereof it)Tj T* (came afterwards that truce was settled and they were brought to peace, and most men tell that these)Tj T* (cases fell under Vermund’s dooming; but he gave forth the award at the Thorsness Thing, and had)Tj T* (with him the wisest men who were come there.)Tj ET endstream endobj 153 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 155 0 obj << /Length 4212 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now it is told of the peace-making that the slayings of men and onslaughts on either side were set off)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (one against the other. The wound of Thord Wall-eye at Swanfirth was set against the wound of)Tj T* (Thorod, son of Snorri the Priest. 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Thorleif Kimbi had atonement for his lost leg; but the man who died out of Snorri’s)Tj T* (company in Swanfirth was set against the onset wherewith Thorleif Kimbi had set the fight agoing )Tj T* (there.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then were the wounds of other men set against each other, and what was deemed to be left over was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (booted for duly, and so men parted from the Thing appeased.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And that peace was well holden while Steinthor and Snorri were both alive.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 529.4 Tm (Chapter 47 - Of Thorod Scat-Catcher And Snorri And Biorn)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The Champion Of The Broad-Wickers.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 484.8 Tm (That same summer Thorod Scat-catcher bade Snorri his brother-in- law to a homefeast at Frodis-water,)Tj T* (and Snorri went thither with eight men; but while Snorri was at the feast, Thorod complained to him)Tj T* (that he deemed he had both shame and grief from the goings of Biorn Asbrandson, wherein he went to)Tj T* (see his wife Thurid, the sister of Snorri the Priest, and said that it was Snorri’s part to find rede for that)Tj T* (trouble. So Snorri was at the feast certain nights, and Thorod led him away with seemly gifts. Snorri)Tj T* (rode over the heath thence, and gave out that he would ride to the ship in Lavahavenmouth; and that)Tj T* (was in summer at the time of mowing in the home-field. Now when he came south unto Combheath,)Tj T* (then said Snorri: "Now shall we ride down from the heath unto Comb; and I will have you to know,")Tj T* (says he, "that I will make an onset on Biorn, and take his life if occasion may serve; but not set on him)Tj T* (in his house, because here are strong houses, and Biorn is brave and hardy, and we have but little)Tj T* (strength. 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And)Tj T* (so indeed it fell out the winter through, that all the portents dreaded Kiartan the most of all.)Tj ET endstream endobj 175 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 177 0 obj << /Length 4087 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 54 - The Death Of Thorod Scat-Catcher; The Dead)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Walk At Frodis-Water.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 692 Tm (The morning that Thorod and his men went out westaway from Ness, they were all lost off Enni; the)Tj T* (ship and the fish drave ashore there under Enni, but the corpses were not found. But when this news)Tj T* (was known at Frodiswater, Kiartan and Thurid bade their neighbours to the arvale, and their Yule ale)Tj T* (was taken and used for the arvale. But the first evening whenas men were at the feast, and were come)Tj T* (to their seats, in came goodman Thorod and his fellows into the hall, all of them dripping wet. 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Thorstein was the son of Thorgils, the son of Thorfinn,)Tj T* (the son of Seal-Thorir of Redmel, but his mother was Aud, the daughter of Alf-a-dales; but Thorstein)Tj T* (was the cousin of Thorgils Arison of Reek-knolls, and Thorgeir Havarson, and Thorgils Hallason, and)Tj T* (Bitter-Oddi, and those Swanfirthers, Thorleif Kimbi and the other sons of Thorbrand.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorstein had at that time set on foot many cases for the Thorsness Thing. So one day on the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thing-brent, Snorri the Priest asked if Thorstein had set on foot many suits for the Thing. 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Both big and stark was Thorstein, and a deft man-at-arms, but when he fell fiercely on)Tj T* (Snorri, Kiartan of Frodis-water, Snorri’s sister’s son, ran before him, and Thorstein and he fought long)Tj T* (together, and their weapon-play was exceeding hard-fought.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But thereafter friends of both sides came thither, and went between them, and brought about truce.)Tj T* (After the battle spake Snorri to Kiartan his kinsman, and said: "Well wentest thou forth today, )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Broadwicking!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Kiartan answered somewhat wrathfully: "No need to throw my kin in my teeth," said he. 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About all these things,)Tj T* (the slaying of Thorstein Gislison, and Gunnar his son, and also about the battle at the Thorsness Thing,)Tj T* (thus sings Thorrood Trefilson in the Raven-song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Again now the great-heart,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The Rhine-fires waster,)Tj T* (Slew two men in spear-storm)Tj T* (South over the water.)Tj T* (Thereafter lay seven)Tj T* (Life-bereft on the Ness)Tj T* (Of the bane of the troll-wives.)Tj T* (Thereof are there tokens.")Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 210.4002 Tm (Chapter 57 - Of Uspak Of Ere In Bitter And Of His Injustice.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 186.2002 Tm (Whenas Snorri the Priest had dwelt a few winters at Saelings- dale-Tongue, there dwelt a man at Ere)Tj T* (in Bitter called Uspak. He was a married man, and had a son called Glum, who was young in those)Tj T* (days. Uspak was the son of Kiallak of Kiallak’s-river of Skridinsenni. Uspak was the biggest and)Tj T* (strongest of men; he was unloved and the most unjust of men, and had with him seven or eight carles)Tj T* (who were much in the way of picking quarrels with men in those northern parts; they had ever a ship)Tj T* (off the land, and took from every man his goods and his drifts as it seemed them good.)Tj ET endstream endobj 187 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 189 0 obj << /Length 3906 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (A man called Alf the Little dwelt at Thambardale in Bitter. He had wealth enow, and was the greatest)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of men in his housekeeping; he was a Thingman of Snorri the Priest, and had the ward of his drifts)Tj T* (round Gudlaugs-head. 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Now it will not be easy to see which of us will be fainest of blows; but those horses which we)Tj T* (have taken from Thambardale will be fain of home, yet never will I let that be taken from me which)Tj T* (we have laid hands on; so two of us who are the worst armed shall drive the laden horses before us out)Tj T* (to Ere, and let those men who are at home come to meet us; but we thirteen will withstand these men)Tj T* (even as we may.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So they did as Uspak bade. But when Thorir came up, Uspak greeted him, and asked for tidings, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was soft-spoken, that so he might delay Thorir and his folk. Thorir asked whence they had those)Tj T* (goods. Uspak says: "From Thambardale.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("How camest thou thereby?" says Thorir.)Tj T* (Says Uspak: "They were neither given, nor paid, nor sold at a price.")Tj T* ("Will ye let them go, and give them into our hands?" said Thorir.)Tj T* (Uspak said he could not bring himself to that, and therewith they ran each at each, and a fight befell;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and Thorir and his men were of the eagerest, but Uspak and his folk defended themselves well and)Tj T* (manly, yet some were wounded, and some slain.)Tj ET endstream endobj 193 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 196 0 obj << /Length 3768 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Thorir had a bear-bill in his hand, and therewith he ran at Uspak and smote at him, but Uspak put the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thrust from him, and whereas Thorir had thrown all his might into the blow, and there was nought)Tj T* (before the bill, he fell on his knees and louted forward. 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Uspak drew the bill from the wound and)Tj T* (cast it back, and it smote the man in the midst who had erst cut at Uspak, and down he fell dead to the )Tj T* (earth.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter away ran Uspak and his following, and Thorir and his company chased them out along the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (foreshores well-nigh to Ere. Then came folk from the homestead, both men and women, and Thorir)Tj T* (and his folk turned back.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And no more onslaughts were made on either side thenceforth through the winter.)Tj T* (At that meeting fell three of Uspak’s men and one of Thorir’s, but many were wounded on either side.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 406.2001 Tm (Chapter 59 - Uspak And His Men At The Strands. They Give)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Up Their Work.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 361.6001 Tm (Snorri the Priest took up all the cases of Alf the Little at the hands of Uspak and his men, and made all)Tj T* (those guilty at the Thorsness Thing; and after the Thing he went home to Tongue, and sat at home until)Tj T* (the time came for the court of forfeiture to sit; and then he went north to Bitter with a great company.)Tj T* (But when he came there, then was Uspak gone with all his; and they had gone north to the Strands)Tj T* (fifteen in company, and had five keels. They were at the Strands through the summer, and did there)Tj T* (many unpeaceful deeds.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They set them down north in Wrackfirth, and gathered men to them, and thither came he who is called)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Raven and was bynamed the Viking. He was nought but an ill-doer, and had lain out north about the)Tj T* (Strands. There they wrought great warfare with robbing and slaying of men, and held all together till)Tj T* (towards winter-nights.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then gathered together the Strand-men, Olaf Eyvindson, of Drangar, and other bonders with him, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (fell on them. They had there a work once more about their stead in Wrackfirth, and were well-nigh)Tj T* (thirty in company. Olaf and his folk sat down before the work, and hard to deal with they deemed it to)Tj T* (be. So both sides talked together, and the evil-doers offered to get them gone from the Strands, and do)Tj T* (no more unpeaceful deeds there henceforth, while the others should depart from before the work; and)Tj T* (whereas they deemed it nowise an easy play to have to do with them, they took that choice, and both)Tj T* (sides bound themselves by oath to this settlement, and the bonders fared home withal.)Tj ET endstream endobj 197 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 199 0 obj << /Length 4238 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 60 - Uspak Goes Back To Ere In Bitter: He Robs And )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Slays.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 692 Tm (Now is it to be told of Snorri the Priest that he went to the court of forfeiture north in Bitter, as is)Tj T* (written afore, but when he came to Ere, then was Uspak gone. 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Now on the very same night that they came)Tj T* (home, they rowed both the boats down to the firth-bottom, and went up to the farm at Tongue, and)Tj T* (broke into the house there, and took goodman Thorir from his bed, and led him out and slew him.)Tj T* (Then they robbed all the goods that were stored there within doors, and brought them to the boats, and)Tj T* (then rowed to Thambardale, and ran up and brake open the doors there, as at Tongue.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Alf the Little had lain down in his clothes, and when he heard the door broken open, he ran out to the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (secret door that was at the back of the house, and went out there through and ran up the dale. But)Tj T* (Uspak and his folk robbed all they might lay hands upon, and brought it to their boats, and then went)Tj T* (home to Ere with both boats laden, and brought both the liftings into the work. They brought the boats)Tj T* (into the work withal, and filled them both with water, and then closed the work, and the best of)Tj T* (fighting-steads it was. So thereafter they sat there the winter long.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 385.2001 Tm (Chapter 61 - Snorri Sends For Thrand The Strider.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 361.0001 Tm (Alf the Little ran till he came to Tongue to Snorri the Priest, and told him of his troubles, and egged)Tj T* (him on hard to go north against Uspak and his folk. But Snorri the Priest would first hear from the)Tj T* (north what more they had done than driving Alf from the north, or whether they meant to have a)Tj T* (settled abode there in Bitter. A little after came tidings from Bitter in the north of the slaying of Thorir)Tj T* (and the array which Uspak had there, and it was heard tell of men that they would not be easily won.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Snorri the Priest let fetch Alf’s household and such goods as were left behind, and all those)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (matters came to Tongue and were there the winter long. Snorri’s unfriends laid blame on him, in that)Tj T* (he was held by folk slow to set Alf’s matters right. Snorri let them say what they would about it, and)Tj T* (still was nought done.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Sturla Thiodrekson sent word from the west that he would straightway get ready to set on Uspak)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and his company as soon as Snorri would, and said that it was no less due of him than of Snorri to go)Tj T* (that journey. The winter wore on till past Yule, and ever were ill deeds of Uspak and his company)Tj T* (heard of from the north. The winter was hard, and all the firths were under ice.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But a little before Lent, Snorri the Priest sent out to Ness to Ingiald’s-knolI, where dwelt a man called)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thrand the Strider, and was the son of that Ingiald by whom the homestead is named at)Tj T* (Ingiald’s-knoll. Thrand was the biggest and strongest of men, and the swiftest of foot. He had been)Tj T* (before with Snorri the Priest, and was said to be not of one shape whiles he was heathen; but the)Tj T* (devilhood fell off from most men when they were christened.)Tj ET endstream endobj 200 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 202 0 obj << /Length 4061 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now Snorri sent word to Thrand, bidding him come thither to Tongue to meet him, and to get ready)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (his journey in such guise as though he was to have certain trials of manhood on his hands. So when)Tj T* (Thrand got Snorri’s word he said to the messenger: "Thou shalt rest thyself here such time as thou)Tj T* (wilt, but I will go at Snorri’s message, so we may not journey together.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The messenger said that would be known when it was tried. But in the morning when the man awoke,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (lo, Thrand was clean gone. He had taken his weapons and gone east under Enni, and so as the road lay)Tj T* (to Bulands-head, and then east across the firths to the stead called Eidi. There he took to the ice and)Tj T* (went over Coalpit-firth and Seliafirth, and thence into Swordfirth, and so in over the ice right to the)Tj T* (firth-end, and to Tongue in the evening, whenas Snorri was set down and at table.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Snorri welcomed him lovingly, and Thrand took his greeting and asked what he would of him, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (said he was ready to go whither he would, if Snorri had will to set him about somewhat. Snorri bade)Tj T* (him abide in peace through the night, and Thrand’s wet clothes were pulled off him.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 542.6001 Tm (Chapter 62 - Snorri And Sturla Win The Work At Ere In )Tj T* (Bitter.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 498.0001 Tm (The same night Snorri the Priest sent a man west to Stead-knolls to Sturla Thiodrekson, and bade him)Tj T* (come meet him at Tongue north in Bitter the next day. Withal Snorri sent to the farmsteads thereabout,)Tj T* (and summoned men to him, and then they went north over Gablefell-heath with fifty men, and came to)Tj T* (Tongue in Bitter in the evening, and there was Sturla abiding them with thirty men.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They fared thence out to Ere in the night-tide, and when they were come there, Uspak and his folk)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (went on to the wall of the work, and asked who ruled that company. 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So says Thormod in the Raven-song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Fight fell there in Bitter;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The maker of stir meseems)Tj T* (For the choughs of the war-maidens)Tj T* (Brought home the quarry.)Tj T* (Three leaders of sea-wain)Tj T* (Lay life-void before him,)Tj T* (The fanner of fight-pith.)Tj T* (There Raven gat resting.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 388.6003 Tm (Chapter 63 - Of The Walking Of Thorolf Halt-Foot. He Is Dug)Tj T* (Up And Burned. Of The Bull Glossy.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 344.0003 Tm (In those days dwelt Thorod Thorbrandson in Swanfirth, and had the lands both of Ulfar’s-fell and of)Tj T* (Orligstead; but to such a pass had come the haunting of Thorolf Halt-foot, that men deemed they might)Tj T* (not abide on those lands. Lairstead withal was voided, because Thorolf straightway took to walking as)Tj T* (soon as Arnkel was dead, and slew both men and beasts there at Lairstead; nor has any man had a)Tj T* (heart to dwell there, by reason of these things.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then when all things were waste there, Haltfoot betook himself to Ulfar’s-fell, and wrought great)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (trouble there, and all folk were full of dread as soon as they were ware of Halt-foot’s walking. At last)Tj T* (the bonder fared in to Karstead, and bemoaned himself of that trouble to Thorod, because he was)Tj T* (tenant of him, and he said that it was the fear of men that Halt-foot would not leave off before he had)Tj T* (wasted all the firth both of man and beast, "and if no rede is tried I can no longer abide there, if nought)Tj T* (be done herein.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Thorod heard that, he deemed the matter ill to deal with. 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There was a stiff breeze, which scattered the ashes wide about as soon as the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (bale began to burn; but such of the ashes as they might, they cast out seaward; and so when they had)Tj T* (made an end of the business they went home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now it was the time of the night-meal whenas Thorod came home, and the women were at the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (milking; but as Thorod rode by the milking-stead a certain cow started from before him, and brake her)Tj T* (leg. Then was she felt, but was found so meagre that it was not deemed good to slaughter her; so)Tj T* (Thorod let bind up her leg; but she became utterly dry.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So when the cow’s leg was whole again, she was brought out to Ulfar’s-fell to fatten, because there the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (pasture was good, as it might be in an island.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now the cow went often down to the strand and the place: whereas the bale had been litten, and licked)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the stones on which the ashes thereof had been driven; and some men say, that whenas the island-men)Tj T* (went along the firth with lading of stockfish, they saw there the cow up on the hillside, and another)Tj T* (neat with her, dapple-grey of hide, of which neat no man knew how it might be there.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So in the autumn Thorod was minded to slaughter the cow, but when men went after her, she was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (nowhere to be found. 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She was deemed to have been)Tj T* (foreseeing in her earlier days, but as she grew old, all she said was taken for doting; nevertheless,)Tj T* (things went pretty much according to her words.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So as the big calf was bound upon the floor, he cried out on high, and when the carline heard that, she)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (started sorely, and spoke: "The voice of a troll," quoth she, "and of nought else alive; do the best ye)Tj T* (can and slay this boder of woe straight- way.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorod said he would nowise slay the calf; for that it was well worthy to be nourished, and that it)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (would turn out a noble beast if it were brought up; therewith the calf cried out yet again.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then spake the carline, all a-flutter: "Fair foster-son," says she, "prithee kill the calf, for ill shall we)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (have of him if he be brought up.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So he answers: "Well, I will kill him if thou wilt have it so, foster-mother.")Tj T* (Then were both the calves borne out, and Thorod let kill the cow- calf, and bear the other out to the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (barn, and withal he bade folk take heed that the carline was not told that the bull-calf was yet alive.)Tj ET endstream endobj 209 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 211 0 obj << /Length 3751 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now this calf grew greater day by day, so that in spring when the calves were let out, he was no less)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (than those which had been born in the early winter. He ran about the home-mead bellowing loudly)Tj T* (when he was let out, even as a bull might, so that he was heard clearly in the house. Then said the)Tj T* (carline: "Ah, the troll was not slain then, and we shall have more harm of him than words can tell.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The calf waxed speedily, and went about the home-mead the summer long, and by autumn-tide was so)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (big, that few yearling neats were equal to him; well horned he was, and the fairest of all neat to look)Tj T* (on, and he was called Glossy. When he was two years old, he was as big as a five-year-old ox, and he)Tj T* (was ever at home with the cows; and when Thorod went to the milking-stead, Glossy would go to him)Tj T* (and sniff at him and lick his clothes all about, and Thorod would pat and stroke him. He was as tame)Tj T* (both to man and beast as a sheep, but ever when he bellowed he gave forth a great and hideous voice,)Tj T* (and when the carline heard, she started sorely thereat. 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