%PDF-1.3 %âãÏÓ 2 0 obj << /Length 106 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 22.8 0 0 22.8 149.4771 620.8142 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The Saga of Cormac the Skald)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 3264 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 19 0 0 19 71 734.2 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The Saga of Cormac the Skald)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 710 Tm (1901 translation into English by W.G. Collingwood and J. Stefansson from the original Icelandic)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’Kormáks saga’.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 662.8 Tm (Chapter 1 - Cormac’s Fore-Elders.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 638.6 Tm (Harald Fairhair was king of Norway when this tale begins. There was a chief in the kingdom in those)Tj T* (days and his name was Cormac; one of the Vik-folk by kindred, a great man of high birth. He was the)Tj T* (mightiest of champions, and had been with King Harald in many battles.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He had a son called Ogmund, a very hopeful lad; big and sturdy even as a child; who when he was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (grown of age and come to his full strength, took to sea-roving in summer and served in the king’s)Tj T* (household in winter. So he earned for himself a good name and great riches.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (One summer he went roving about the British Isles and there he fell in with a man named Asmund)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Ashenside, who also was a great champion and had worsted many vikings and men of war. These two)Tj T* (heard tell of one another and challenges passed between them. They came together and fought.)Tj T* (Asmund had the greater following, but he withheld some of his men from the battle: and so for the)Tj T* (length of four days they fought, until many of Asmund’s people were fallen, and at last he himself)Tj T* (fled. Ogmund won the victory and came home again with wealth and worship.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (His father said that he could get no greater glory in war, - "And now," said he, "I will find thee a wife.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (What sayest thou to Helga, daughter of Earl Frodi?")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("So be it," said Ogmund.)Tj T* (Upon this they set off to Earl Frodi’s house, and were welcomed with all honour. They made known)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (their errand, and he took it kindly, although he feared that the fight with Asmund was likely to bring)Tj T* (trouble. Nevertheless this match was made, and then they went their ways home. A feast was got ready)Tj T* (for the wedding and to that feast a very great company came together.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Helga the daughter of Earl Frodi had a nurse that was a wise woman, and she went with her. Now)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Asmund the viking heard of this marriage, and set out to meet Ogmund. He bade him fight, and)Tj T* (Ogmund agreed.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Helga’s nurse used to touch men when they went to fight: so she did with Ogmund before he set out)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (from home, and told him that he would not be hurt much.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then they both went to the fighting holm and fought. The viking laid bare his side, but the sword)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (would not bite upon it. Then Ogmund whirled about his sword swiftly and shifted it from hand to)Tj T* (hand, and hewed Asmund’s leg from under him: and three marks of gold he took to let him go with his )Tj T* (life.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 160.2001 Tm (Chapter 2 - How Cormac Was Born and Bred.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 136.0002 Tm (About this time King Harald Fairhair died, and Eric Bloodaxe reigned in his stead. Ogmund would)Tj T* (have no friendship with Eric, nor with Gunnhild, and made ready his ship for Iceland.)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 3241 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Nor Ogmund and Helga had a son called Frodi: but when the ship was nearly ready, Helga took a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sickness and died; and so did their son Frodi.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that, they sailed to sea. When they were near the land, Ogmund cast overboard his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (high-seat-pillars; and where the high- seat-pillars had already been washed ashore, there they cast)Tj T* (anchor, and landed in Midfiord.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At this time Skeggi of Midfiord ruled the countryside. He came riding toward them and bade them)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (welcome into the firth, and gave them the pick of the land: which Ogmund took, and began to mark)Tj T* (out ground for a house. Now it was a belief of theirs that as the measuring went, so would the luck go:)Tj T* (if the measuring-wand seemed to grow less when they tried it again and again, so would that house’s)Tj T* (luck grow less: and if it grew greater, so would the luck be. This time the measure always grew less,)Tj T* (though they tried it three times over.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So Ogmund built him a house on the sandhills, and lived there ever after. He married Dalla, the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (daughter of Onund the Seer, and their sons were Thorgils and Cormac. Cormac was dark-haired, with)Tj T* (a curly lock upon his forehead: he was bright of blee and somewhat like his mother, big and strong,)Tj T* (and his mood was rash and hasty. Thorgils was quiet and easy to deal with.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When the brothers were grown up, Ogmund died; and Dalla kept house with her sons. Thorgils worked)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the farm, under the eye of Midfiord-Skeggi.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 454.6001 Tm (Chapter 3 - How Cormac Fell In Love.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 430.4001 Tm (There was a man named Thorkel lived at Tunga \(Tongue\). He was a wedded man, and had a daughter)Tj T* (called Steingerd who was fostered in Gnupsdal \(Knipedale\).)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now it was one autumn that a whale came ashore at Vatnsnes \(Watsness\), and it belonged to the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brothers, Dalla’s sons. Thorgils asked Cormac would he rather go shepherding on the fell, or work at)Tj T* (the whale. He chose to fare on the fell with the house-carles.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Tosti, the foreman, it was should be master of the sheep- gathering: so he and Cormac went together)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (until they came to Gnupsdal. It was night: there was a great hall, and fires for men to sit at.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That evening Steingerd came out of her bower, and a maid with her. Said the maid, "Steingerd mine,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (let us look at the guests.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Nay," she said, "no need": and yet went to the door, and stepped on the threshold, and spied across)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the gate. Now there was a space between the wicker and the threshold, and her feet showed through.)Tj T* (Cormac saw that, and made this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("At the door of my soul she is standing,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (So sweet in the gleam of her garment:)Tj T* (Her footfall awakens a fury,)Tj T* (A fierceness of love that I knew not,)Tj T* (Those feet of a wench in her wimple,)Tj T* (Their weird is my sorrow and troubling,)Tj T* (- Or naught may my knowledge avail me -)Tj T* (Both now and for aye to endure.")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 2378 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Then Steingerd knew she was seen. She turned aside into a corner where the likeness of Hagbard was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (carved on the wall, and peeped under Hagbard’s beard. Then the firelight shone upon her face.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Cormac," said Tosti, "seest eyes out yonder by that head of Hagbard?")Tj T* (Cormac answered in song:)Tj T* ("There breaks on me, burning upon me,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (A blaze from the cheeks of a maiden,)Tj T* (- I laugh not to look on the vision -)Tj T* (In the light of the hall by the doorway.)Tj T* (So sweet and so slender I deem her,)Tj T* (Though I spy bug a glimpse of an ankle)Tj T* (By the threshold: and through me there flashes)Tj T* (A thrill that shall age never more.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And then he made another song:)Tj T* ("The moon of her brow, it is beaming)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’Neath the bright-litten heaven of her forehead:)Tj T* (So she gleams in her white robe, and gazes)Tj T* (With a glance that is keen as the falcon’s.)Tj T* (But the star that is shining upon me)Tj T* (What spell shall it work by its witchcraft?)Tj T* (Ah, that moon of her brow shall be mighty)Tj T* (With mischief to her - and to me?")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Tosti, "She is fairly staring at thee!" - And he answered:)Tj T* ("She’s a ring-bedight oak of the ale-cup,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (And her eyes never left me unhaunted.)Tj T* (The strife in my heart I could hide not,)Tj T* (For I hold myself bound in her bondage.)Tj T* (O gay in her necklet, and gainer)Tj T* (In the game that wins hearts on her chessboard, -)Tj T* (When she looked at me long from the doorway)Tj T* (Where the likeness of Hagbard is carved.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then the girls went into the hall, and sat down. He heard what they said about his looks, - the maid,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that he was black and ugly, and Steingerd, that he was handsome and everyway as best could be, -)Tj T* ("There is only one blemish," said she, "his hair is tufted on his forehead:" - and he said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("One flaw in my features she noted)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (- With the flame of the wave she was gleaming)Tj T* (All white in the wane of the twilight -)Tj T* (And that one was no hideous blemish.)Tj T* (So highborn, so haughty a lady)Tj T* (- I should have such a dame to befriend me:)Tj T* (But she trows me uncouth for a trifle,)Tj T* (For a tuft in the hair on my brow!")Tj ET endstream endobj 16 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 18 0 obj << /Length 2331 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Said the maid, "Black are his eyes, sister, and that becomes him not." Cormac heard her, and said in )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (verse:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Yes, black are the eyes that I bring ye,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (O brave in your jewels, and dainty.)Tj T* (But a draggle-tail, dirty-foot slattern)Tj T* (Would dub me ill-favoured and sallow.)Tj T* (Nay, many a maiden has loved me,)Tj T* (Thou may of the glittering armlet:)Tj T* (For I’ve tricks of the tongue to beguile them)Tj T* (And turn them from handsomer lads.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At this house they spent the night. In the morning when Cormac rose up, he went to a trough and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (washed himself; then he went into the ladies’ bower and saw nobody there, but heard folk talking in)Tj T* (the inner room, and he turned and entered. There was Steingerd, and women with her.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said the maid to Steingerd, "There comes thy bonny man, Steingerd.")Tj T* ("Well, and a fine-looking lad he is," said she.)Tj T* (Now she was combing her hair, and Cormac asked her, "Wilt thou give me leave?")Tj T* (She reached out her comb for him to handle it. She had the finest hair of any woman. Said the maid,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD ("Ye would give a deal for a wife with hair like Steingerd’s, or such eyes!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He answered:)Tj T* ("One eye of the far of the ale-horn)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Looking out of a form so bewitching,)Tj T* (Would a bridegroom count money to buy it)Tj T* (He must bring for it ransom three hundred.)Tj T* (The curls that she combs of a morning,)Tj T* (White-clothed in fair linen and spotless,)Tj T* (They enhance the bright hoard of her value, -)Tj T* (Five hundred might barely redeem them!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said the maid, "It’s give and take with the two of ye! But thou’lt put a big price upon the whole of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (her!" He answered:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("The tree of my treasure and longing,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (It would take this whole Iceland to win her:)Tj T* (She is dearer than far-away Denmark,)Tj T* (And the doughty domain of the Hun-folk.)Tj T* (With the gold she is combing, I count her)Tj T* (More costly than England could ransom:)Tj T* (So witty, so wealthy, my lady)Tj T* (Is worth them, - and Ireland beside!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Tosti came in, and called Cormac out to some work or other; but he said:)Tj ET endstream endobj 19 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 21 0 obj << /Length 2575 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("Take m swift-footed steel for thy tiding,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Ay, and stint not the lash to him, Tosti:)Tj T* (On the desolate downs ye may wander)Tj T* (And drive him along till he weary.)Tj T* (I care not o’er mountain and moorland)Tj T* (The murrey-brown weathers to follow, -)Tj T* (Far liefer, I’d linger the morning)Tj T* (In long, cosy chatter with Steingerd.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Tosti said he would find it a merrier game, and went off; so Cormac sat down to chess, and right gay)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he was. Steingerd said he talked better than folk told of; and he sat there all the day; and then he made)Tj T* (this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (" ’Tis the dart that adorneth her tresses,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The deep, dewy grass of her forehead.)Tj T* (So kind to my keeping she gave it,)Tj T* (That good comb I shall ever remember!)Tj T* (A stranger was I when I sought her)Tj T* (- Sweet stem with the dragon’s hoard shining -")Tj T* (With gold like the sea-dazzle gleaming -)Tj T* (The girl I shall never forget.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Tosti came off the fell and they fared home. After that Cormac used to go to Gnupsdal often to see)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Steingerd: and he asked his mother to make him good clothes, so that Steingerd might like him the)Tj T* (most that could be. Dalla said there was a mighty great difference betwixt them, and it was far from)Tj T* (certain to end happily if Thorkel at Tunga got to know.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 386.4001 Tm (Chapter 4 - How Cormac Liked Black-Puddings.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 362.2001 Tm (Well Thorkel soon heard what was going forward, and thought it would turn out to his own shame and)Tj T* (his daughter’s if Cormac would not pledge himself to take her or leave her. So he sent for Steingerd,)Tj T* (and she went home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorkel had a man called Narfi, a noisy, foolish fellow, boastful, and yet of little account. Said he to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorkel, "If Cormac’s coming likes thee not, I can soon settle it.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Very well," says Thorkel.)Tj T* (Now, in the autumn, Narfi’s work it was to slaughter the sheep. Once, when Cormac came to Tunga,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he saw Steingerd in the kitchen. Narfi stood by the kettle, and when they had finished the boiling, he)Tj T* (took up a black-pudding and thrust it under Cormac’s nose, crying:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Cormac, how would ye relish one?)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Kettle-worms I call them.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (To which he answered:)Tj T* ("Black-puddings boiled, quoth Ogmund’s son,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Are a dainty, - fair befall them!")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 2940 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (And in the evening when Cormac made ready to go home he saw Narfi, and bethought him of those)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (churlish words. "I think, Narfi," said he, "I am more like to knock thee down, than thou to rule my)Tj T* (coming and going." And with that struck him an axe- hammer-blow, saying:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Why foul with thy clowning and folly,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The food that is dressed for thy betters?)Tj T* (Thou blundering archer, what ails thee)Tj T* (To be aiming thy insults at me?")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And he made another song about:
"He asked me, the clavering cowherd)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (If I cared for - what was it he called them? -)Tj T* (The worms of the kettle. I warrant)Tj T* (He’ll be wiping his eyes by the hearth-stone.)Tj T* (I deem that yon knave of the dunghill)Tj T* (Who dabbles the muck on the meadow)Tj T* (- Yon rook in his mud-spattered raiment -)Tj T* (Got a rap for his noise - like a dog.")Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 503.0001 Tm (Chapter 5 - They Waylay Cormac: And The Witch Curses )Tj T* (Him.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 458.4001 Tm (There was a woman named Thorveig, and she knew a deal too much. She lived at Steins-stadir)Tj T* (\(Stonestead\) in Midfiord, and had two sons; the elder was Odd, and the younger Gudmund. They were)Tj T* (great braggarts both of them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (This Odd often came to see Thorkel at Tunga, and used to sit and talk with Steingerd. Thorkel made a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (great show of friendship with the brothers, and egged them on to waylay Cormac. 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He looked)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (about, and no Steingerd: but he saw the brothers whetting their weapons: so he turned on his heel and)Tj T* (went, saying:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("The weapon that mows in the meadow)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (It met with the gay painted buckler,)Tj T* (When I came to encounter a goddess)Tj T* (Who carries the beaker of wine.)Tj T* (Beware! for I warn you of evil)Tj T* (When warriors threaten me mischief.)Tj T* (It shall not be for nought that I pour ye)Tj T* (The newly mixed mead of the gods.")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 2719 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (And when he could find Steingerd nowhere, he made this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("She has gone, with the glitter of ocean)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Agleam on her wrist and her bosom,)Tj T* (And my heart follows hard on her footsteps,)Tj T* (For the hall is in darkness without her.)Tj T* (I have gazed, but my glances can pierce not)Tj T* (The gloom of the desolate dwelling;)Tj T* (And fierce is my longing to find her,)Tj T* (The fair one who only can heal me.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After a while he came to the outhouse where Steingerd was, and burst it open and had talk with her.)Tj T* ("This is madness," cried she, "to come talking with me; for Thorveig’s sons are meant to have thy )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (head.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But he answered:)Tj T* ("There wait they within that would snare me;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (There whet they their swords for my slaying.)Tj T* (My bane they shall be not, the cowards,)Tj T* (The brood of the churl and the carline.)Tj T* (Let the twain of them find me and fight me)Tj T* (In the field, without shelter to shield them,)Tj T* (And ewes of the sheep should be surer)Tj T* (To shorten the days of the wolf.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So he sat there all day. By that time Thorkel saw that the plan he had made was come to nothing; and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he bade the sons of Thorveig waylay Cormac in a dale near his garth. "Narfi shall go with ye two,")Tj T* (said he; "but I will stay at home, and bring you help if need be.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the evening Cormac set out, and when he came to the dale, he saw three men, and said in verse:)Tj T* ("There sit they in hiding to stay me)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (From the sight of my queen of the jewels:)Tj T* (But rude will their task be to reave me)Tj T* (From the roof of my bounteous lady.)Tj T* (The fainer the hatred they harbour)Tj T* (For him that is free of her doorway,)Tj T* (The fainer my love and my longing)Tj T* (For the lass that is sweeter than samphire.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then leaped up Thorveig’s sons, and fought Cormac for a time: Narfi the while skulked and dodged)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (behind them. Thorkel saw from his house that they were getting but slowly forward, and he took his)Tj T* (weapons. In that nick of time Steingerd came out and saw what her father meant. She laid hold on his)Tj T* (hands, and he got no nearer to help the brothers. In the end Odd fell, and Gudmund was so wounded)Tj T* (that he died afterwards. Thorkel saw to them, and Cormac went home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (A little after this Cormac went to Thorveig and said he would have her no longer live there at the firth.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD ("Thou shalt flit and go thy way at such a time," said he, "and I will give no blood- money for thy )Tj T* (sons.")Tj ET endstream endobj 28 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 30 0 obj << /Length 2639 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Thorveig answered, "It is like enough ye can hunt me out of the countryside, and leave my sons)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (unatoned. But this way I’ll reward thee. Never shalt thou have Steingerd.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Cormac, "That’s not for thee to make or to mar, thou wicked old hag!")Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 672.4 Tm (Chapter 6 - Cormac Wins His Bride and Loses Her.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 648.2001 Tm (After this, Cormac went to see Steingerd the same as ever: and once when they talked over these)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (doings she said no ill of them: whereupon he made this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("There sat they in hiding to slay me)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (From the sight of my bride and my darling:)Tj T* (But weak were the feet of my foemen)Tj T* (When we fought on the island of weapons.)Tj T* (And the rush of the mightiest rivers)Tj T* (Shall race from the shore to the mountains)Tj T* (Or ever I leave thee, my lady,)Tj T* (And the love that I feast on to-day!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Say no such big words about it," answered she; "Many a thing may stand in the road.")Tj T* (Upon which he said:)Tj T* ("O sweet in the sheen of thy raiment,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The sight of thy beauty is gladdening!)Tj T* (What man that goes marching to battle,)Tj T* (What mate wouldst thou choose to be thine?")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And she answered:)Tj T* ("O giver of gold, O ring-breaker,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (If the gods and the high fates befriend me,)Tj T* (I’d pledge me to Frodi’s blithe brother)Tj T* (And bind him that he should be mine.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then she told him to make friends with her father and get her in marriage. So for her sake Cormac)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (gave Thorkel good gifts. Afterwards many people had their say in the matter; but in the end it came to)Tj T* (this, - that he asked for her, and she was pledged to him, and the wedding was fixed: and so all was)Tj T* (quiet for a while.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then they had words. There was some falling-out about settlements. It came to such a pass that after)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (everything was ready, Cormac began to cool off. But the real reason was, that Thorveig had bewitched)Tj T* (him so that they should never have one another.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorkel at Tunga had a grown-up son, called Thorkel and by-named Tooth-gnasher. He had been)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (abroad some time, but this summer he came home and stayed with his father.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Cormac never came to the wedding at the time it was fixed, and the hour passed by. This the kinsfolk)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of Steingerd thought a slight, deeming that he had broken off the match; and they had much talk about )Tj T* (it.)Tj ET endstream endobj 31 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 33 0 obj << /Length 3337 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 7 - How Steingerd Was Married To Somebody Else.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (Bersi lived in the land of Saurbae, a rich man and a good fellow: he was well to the fore, a fighter, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (a champion at the holmgang. He had been married to Finna the Fair: but she was dead: Asmund was)Tj T* (their son, young in years and early ripe. 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There was a man named Vigi lived at Holm, a big)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (man and strong of his hands, a warlock, and Bersi’s kinsman. He went with them, and they thought he)Tj T* (would be a good helper. Thord Arndisarson too went north with Bersi, and many others, all picked )Tj T* (men.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When they came to Thorkel’s, they set about the wedding at once, so that no news of it might get out)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (through the countryside: but all this was sore against Steingerd’s will.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Vigi the warlock knew every man’s affairs who came to the steading or left it. He sat outmost in)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the chamber, and slept by the hall door.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Steingerd sent for Narfi, and when they met she said, - "I wish thee, kinsman, to tell Cormac the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (business they are about: I wish thee to take this message to him.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So he set out secretly; but when he was a gone a little way Vigi came after, and bade him creep home)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and hatch no plots. 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And when)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Narfi woke out of his swoon they got speech of him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorgils asked, "What manner of men were at the wedding?")Tj T* (Narfi told him.)Tj T* ("Did Steingerd know this before?")Tj T* ("Not till the very evening they came," answered he; and then told of his dealings with Vigi, saying that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Cormac would find it easier to whistle on Steingerd’s tracks and go on a fool’s errand than to fight)Tj T* (Bersi. Then said Cormac:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Now see to thy safety henceforward,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (And stick to thy horse and thy buckler;)Tj T* (Or this mallet of mine, I can tell thee,)Tj T* (Will meet with thine ear of a surety.)Tj T* (Now say no more stories of feasting,)Tj T* (Though seven in a day thou couldst tell of,)Tj T* (Or bumps thou shalt comb on thy brainpan,)Tj T* (Thou that breakest the howes of the dead.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorgils asked about the settlements between Bersi and Steingerd. 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Then she got men to scuttle all the boats on the shore, because she knew)Tj T* (beforehand that Cormac and his folk were coming.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When they came and asked her for a boat, she said she would do them no kindness without payment; -)Tj 0 -1.2 TD ("Here is a rotten boat in the boathouse which I would lend for half a mark.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorgils said it would be in reason if she asked two ounces of silver. 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They met Vali and asked about Bersi; he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (said that Bersi had come to Muli and gathered men to him, - "A many men.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Then we are too late," said Cormac, "if they have got men together.")Tj T* (Thorgils begged Cormac to let them turn back, saying there was little honour to be got; but Cormac)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (said he must see Steingerd.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So Vali went with them and they came to Muli where Bersi was and many men with him. They spoke)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (together. 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She, having foresight of Cormac’s goings, came that very day to)Tj T* (Muli, and answered this matter on his behalf, saying, "Never give him yon false woman. She is a fool,)Tj T* (and not fit for any pretty man. Woe will his mother be at such a fate for her lad!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Aroint thee, foul witch!" cried Thord. They should see, said he, that Helga would turn out fine. But)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Cormac answered, "Said it may be, for sooth it may be: I will never think of her.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Woe to us, then," said Thorgils, "for listening to the words of yon fiend, and slighting this offer!")Tj T* (Then spoke Cormac, "I bid thee, Bersi, to the holmgang within half a month, at Leidholm, in Middal.")Tj T* (Bersi said he would come, but Cormac should be the worse for his choice.)Tj ET endstream endobj 45 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 47 0 obj << /Length 2995 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (After this Cormac went about the steading to look for Steingerd. 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Ye have slighted a fine offer, and you have no chance against)Tj T* (Bersi, for he is a great fighter and he has good weapons.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now, Bersi owned the sword they call Whitting; a sharp sword it was, with a life-stone to it; and that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sword he had carried in many a fray.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Whether wilt thou have weapons to meet Whitting?" she asked. Cormac said he would have an axe)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (both great and keen.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Dalla said he should see Skeggi of Midfiord and ask for the loan of his sword, Skofnung. So Cormac)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (went to Reykir and told Skeggi how matters stood, asking him to lend Skofnung. Skeggi said he had)Tj T* (no mind to lend it. Skofnung and Cormac, said he, would never agree: "It is cold and slow, and thou)Tj T* (art hot and hasty.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Cormac rode away and liked it ill. He came home to Mel and told his mother that Skeggi would not)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (lend the sword. 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Cormac said it)Tj T* (needed little to be healed.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Wilt thou let me heal thee?" said Bersi; "though from me thou didst get it: and then it will be soon )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (over.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Cormac said nay, for he meant to be his lifelong foe. Then answered Bersi:)Tj T* ("Thou wilt mind thee for many a season)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (How we met in the high voice of Hilda.)Tj T* (Right fain I go forth to the spear-mote)Tj T* (Being fitted for every encounter.)Tj T* (There Cormac’s gay shield from his clutches)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 2454 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (I clave with the bane of the bucklers,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (For he scorned in the battle to seek me)Tj T* (If we set not the lists of the holmgang.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thus they parted; and then Cormac went home to Mel and saw his mother. She healed his hand; it had)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (become ugly and healed badly. The notch in Skofnung they whetted, but the more they whetted the)Tj T* (bigger it was. So he went to Reykir, and flung Skofnung at Skeggi’s feet, with this verse:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("I bring thee, thus broken and edgeless,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The blade that thou gavest me, Skeggi!)Tj T* (I warrant thy weapon could bite not:)Tj T* (I won not the fight by its witchcraft.)Tj T* (No gain of its virtue nor glory)Tj T* (I got in the strife of the weapons,)Tj T* (When we met for to mingle the sword-storm)Tj T* (For the maiden my singing adorns.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Skeggi, "It went as I warned thee." Cormac flung forth and went home to Mel: and when he met)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with Dalla he made this song:-)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("To the field went I forth, O my mother)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The flame of the armlet who guardest, -)Tj T* (To dare the cave-dweller, my foeman)Tj T* (And I deemed I should smite him in battle.)Tj T* (But the brand that is bruited in story)Tj T* (It brake in my hand as I held it;)Tj T* (And this that should thrust men to slaughter)Tj T* (Is thwarted and let of its might.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (For I borrowed to bear in the fighting)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (No blunt-edged weapon of Skeggi:)Tj T* (There is strength in the serpent that quivers)Tj T* (By the side of the land of the girdle.)Tj T* (But vain was the virtue of Skofnung)Tj T* (When he vanquished the sharpness of Whitting;)Tj T* (And a shard have I shorn, to my sorrow,)Tj T* (From the shearer of ringleted mail.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Yon tusker, my foe, wrought me trouble)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (When targe upon targe I had carven:)Tj T* (For the thin wand of slaughter was shattered)Tj T* (And it sundered the ground of my handgrip.)Tj T* (Loud bellowed the bear of the sea-king)Tj T* (When he brake from his lair in the scabbard,)Tj T* (At the hest of the singer, who seeketh)Tj T* (The sweet hidden draught of the gods.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Afar must I fare, O my mother,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (And a fate points the pathway before me,)Tj T* (For that white-wreathen tree may woo not)Tj T* (- Two wearisome morrows her outcast.)Tj T* (And it slays me, at home to be sitting,)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 2823 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (So set is my heart on its goddess,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (As a lawn with fair linen made lovely)Tj T* (- I can linger no third morrow’s morn.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that, Cormac went one day to Reykir and talked with Skeggi, who said the holmgang had been)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brought to scorn. Then answered Cormac:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Forget it, O Frey of the helmet,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (- Lo, I frame thee a song in atonement -)Tj T* (That the bringer of blood, even Skofnung,)Tj T* (I bare thee so strangely belated.)Tj T* (For by stirrers of storm was I wounded;)Tj T* (They smote me where perches the falcon:)Tj T* (But the blade that I borrowed, O Skeggi,)Tj T* (Was borne in the clashing of edges.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (I had deemed, O thou Grey of fighting,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Of the fierce song of Odin, - my neighbour,)Tj T* (I had deemed that a brand meet for bloodshed)Tj T* (I bare to the crossways of slaughter.)Tj T* (Nay, - thy glaive, it would gape not nor ravin)Tj T* (Against him, the rover who robbed me:)Tj T* (And on her, as the surge on the shingle,)Tj T* (My soul beats and breaks evermore.")Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 412.8002 Tm (Chapter 12 - Bersi’s Bad Luck At The Thor’s-Ness Thing.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 388.6002 Tm (In the winter, sports were held at Saurbae. 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Thou wilt never want while anything is to be got here.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thord went home, and there was a coolness between them while that winter lasted.)Tj T* (Spring slipped by, until it was time for the meeting at Thor’s- ness. By then, Bersi thought he saw)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (through this claim of Thord’s, and found Thordis at the bottom of it. For all that, he made ready to go)Tj T* (to the Thing. By old use and wont these two neighbours should have gone riding together; so Bersi set)Tj T* (out and came to Muli, but when he got there Thord was gone.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Well," said he, "Thord has broken old use and wont in awaiting me no longer.")Tj ET endstream endobj 60 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 62 0 obj << /Length 2912 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("If breach there be," answered Thordis, "it is thy doing. 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He asked the man for his name, and was told he might call him Bruin, or he might call)Tj T* (him Hoodie - which-ever he liked; whereupon he said in verse:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Who sits in the seat of the warriors,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (With the skin of the bear wrapped around him,)Tj T* (So wild in his look? - Ye have welcomed)Tj T* (A wolf to your table, good kinsfolk!)Tj T* (Ah, now may I know him, I reckon!)Tj T* (Doth he name himself Bruin, or Hoodie? -)Tj T* (We shall meet once again in the morning,)Tj T* (And maybe he’ll prove to be - Steinar.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("And it’s no use for thee to hide thy name, thou in the bearskin," said he.)Tj T* ("No more it is," he answered. "Steinar I am, and I have brought money to pay thee for Cormac, if so be)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (it is needed. But first I bid thee to fight. 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But I would let you)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (know that I too have something to say about it - something that will set down your swagger, maybe.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("It is not thy death we are seeking," answered Steinar; "all we want is to teach thee thy true place.")Tj T* (Bersi agreed to fight him, and then went out to a tent apart and took up his abode there.)Tj T* (Now one day the word went round for bathing in the sea. Said Steinar to Bersi, "Wilt try a race with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (me, Bersi?")Tj ET endstream endobj 63 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 65 0 obj << /Length 2794 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("I have given over swimming," said he, "and yet I’ll try.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bersi’s manner of swimming was to breast the waves and strike out with all his might. In so doing he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (showed a charm he wore round his neck. 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The sword-point was at Steinar’s breast when)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thord rushed forth and dragged him away, out of reach.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("There!" cried Thord to Bersi, "I have paid thee for the mauling of my sons.")Tj T* (So Bersi was carried to the tent, and his wound was dressed. After a while, Thord came in; and when)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Bersi saw him he said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("When the wolf of the war-god was howling)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Erstwhile in the north, thou didst aid me:)Tj T* (When it gaped in my hand, and it girded)Tj T* (At the Valkyries’ gate for to enter.)Tj T* (But now wilt thou never, O warrior,)Tj T* (At need in the storm-cloud of Odin)Tj T* (Give me help in the tempest of targes)Tj T* (- Untrusty, unfaithful art thou.)Tj ET endstream endobj 66 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 68 0 obj << /Length 2386 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("For when I was a stripling I showed me)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (To the stems of the lightning of battle)Tj T* (Right meet for the mist of the war-maids;)Tj T* (- Ah me! that was said long ago.)Tj T* (But now, and I may not deny it)Tj T* (My neighbours in earth must entomb me,)Tj T* (At the spot I have sought for grave-mound)Tj T* (Where Saurbae lies level and green.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Thord, "I have no wish for thy death; but I own it is no sorrow to see thee down for once.")Tj T* (To which Bersi answered in song:)Tj T* ("The friend that I trusted has failed me)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (In the fight, and my hope is departed:)Tj T* (I speak what I know of; and note it,)Tj T* (Ye nobles, - I tell ye no leasing.)Tj T* (Lo, the raven is ready for carnage,)Tj T* (But rare are the friends who should succour.)Tj T* (Yet still let them scorn me and threaten,)Tj T* (I shrink not, I am not dismayed.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this, Bersi was taken home to Saurbae, and lay long in his wounds.)Tj T* (But when he was carried into the tent, at that very moment Steinar spoke thus to Cormac:)Tj T* ("Of the reapers in harvest of Hilda)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (- Thou hast heard of it - four men and eight men)Tj T* (With the edges of Skrymir to aid me)Tj T* (I have urged to their flight from the battle.)Tj T* (Now the singer, the steward of Odin,)Tj T* (Hath smitten at last even Bersi)Tj T* (With the flame of the weapon that feedeth)Tj T* (The flocks of the carrion crows.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("I would have thee keep Skrymir now for thy own, Cormac," said he, "because I mean this fight to be)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (my last.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that, they parted in friendly wise: Steinar went home, and Cormac fared to Mel.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 225.8003 Tm (Chapter 13 - Steingerd Leaves Bersi.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 201.6003 Tm (Next it is told of Bersi. His wound healed but slowly. Once on a time a many folk were met to talk)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (about that meeting and what came of it, and Bersi made this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Thou didst leave me forlorn to the sword-stroke,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Strong lord of the field of the serpent!)Tj T* (And needy and fallen ye find me,)Tj T* (Since my foeman ye shielded from danger.)Tj T* (Thus cunning and counsel are victors,)Tj T* (When the craft of the spear-shaft avails not;)Tj T* (But this, as I think, is the ending,)Tj ET endstream endobj 69 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 72 0 obj << /Length 3015 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (O Thord, of our friendship for ever!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (A while later Thord came to his bedside and brought back the luck-stone; and with it he healed Bersi,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and they took to their friendship again and held it unbroken ever after.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Because of these happenings, Steingerd fell into loathing of Bersi and made up her mind to part with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (him; and when she had got everything ready for going away she went to him and said: "First ye were)Tj T* (called Eygla’s-Bersi, and then Holmgang-Bersi, but now your right name will be Breech-Bersi!" and)Tj T* (spoke her divorce from him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (She went north to her kinsfolk, and meeting with her brother Thorkel she bade him seek her goods)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (again from Bersi - her pin- money and her dowry, saying that she would not own him now that he was)Tj T* (maimed. Thorkel Toothgnasher never blamed her for that, and agreed to undertake her errand; but the)Tj T* (winter slipped by and his going was put off.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 544.8001 Tm (Chapter 14 - The Bane Of Thorkel Toothgnasher.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 520.6001 Tm (Afterwards, in the spring, Thorkel Toothgnasher set out to find Bersi and to seek Steingerd’s goods)Tj T* (again. Bersi said that his burden was heavy enough to bear, even though both together underwent the)Tj T* (weight of it. "And I shall not pay the money!" said he.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Thorkel, "I bid thee to the holmgang at Orrestholm beside Tjaldanes \(Tentness\).")Tj T* ("That ye will think hardly worth while," said Bersi, "such a champion as you are; and yet I undertake)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (for to come.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So they came to the holme and fell to the holmgang. Thord carried the shield before Bersi, and Vali)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was Thorkel’s shield- bearer. 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Then sang he:-)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("I have smitten Toothgnasher and slain him,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (And I smile at the pride of his boasting.)Tj T* (One more to my thirty I muster,)Tj T* (And, men! say ye this of the battle:)Tj T* (In the world not a lustier liveth)Tj T* (Among lords of the steed of the oar-bench;)Tj T* (Though by eld of my strength am I stinted)Tj T* (To stain the black wound-bird with blood.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After these things Vali bade Bersi to the holmgang, but he answered in this song:)Tj T* ("They that waken the war of the mail-coats,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (For warfare and manslaying famous,)Tj T* (To the lists they have bid me to battle,)Tj T* (Nor bitter I think it not woeful.)Tj T* (It is sport for yon swordsmen who goad me)Tj T* (To strive in the Valkyries’ tempest)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 3502 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (On the holme; but I fear not to fight them -)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Unflinching in battle am I!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The were even about to begin fighting, when Thord came and spoke to them saying: "Woeful waste of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (life I call it, if brave men shall be smitten down for the sake of any such matters. 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Bersi)Tj T* (answered that such words had been better unsaid, and bade him go home and take no share in the)Tj T* (business. "But yet," added he, "I promise that I will see to it.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (No sooner was Odd gone than Bersi made ready to go from home. He rode fully armed, with Whitting)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (at his belt, and three spears; he came to Thambardal when the day was far spent and the women were)Tj T* (coming out of the bower. Steinvor saw him and turning to meet him told of her unhappiness.)Tj ET endstream endobj 76 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 78 0 obj << /Length 3106 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("Make ready to go with me," said he; and that she did.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He would not go to Thambardal for nothing, he said; and so he turned to the door where men were)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sitting by long fires. 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Then they went after Bersi and)Tj T* (steered the shortest way to the gap, meaning to get there first; but by that time he was already first at)Tj T* (the gap.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When they came near him, Bersi hurled a spear at Alf, and it went right through him. Then Loft cast at)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Bersi, but he caught the spear on his target and it dropped off. Then Bersi threw at Loft and killed him,)Tj T* (and so he did by Skofti.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When all was over, the house-carles of the brothers came up. Thorleif turned back to meet them, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they all went home together.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that Bersi went to find Steinvor, and mounted his horse. He came home before men were out of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (bed. They asked him about his journey and he told them. When Odd met him he asked about the fight)Tj T* (and how it had passed, and Bersi answered in this verse:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("There was one fed the wolves has encountered)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (His weird in the dale of the Bowstring -)Tj T* (Thorarin the Strong, ’neath the slayer)Tj T* (Lay slain by the might of my weapon.)Tj T* (And loss of their lives men abided)Tj T* (When Loft fell, and Alf fell, and Skofti.)Tj T* (They were four, yonder kinsmen, and fated -)Tj T* (They were fey - and I met them, alone!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that Odd went home, but Steinvor was with Bersi, though it misliked Thordis, his wife. By this)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (time his stone wall was some-what broken down, but he had it built up again; and it is said that no)Tj T* (blood-money was ever paid for Thorarin and his sons. So the time went on.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 212.6002 Tm (Chapter 16 - How Vali Fell Before An Old Man And A Boy.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 188.4002 Tm (Once on a day when Thordis and Bersi were talking together, said he, "I have been thinking I might)Tj T* (ask Olaf Peacock for a child of his to foster.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Nay," said she, "I think little of that. It seems to me a great trouble, and I doubt if folk will reckon)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (more of us for it.")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 2339 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("It means that I should have a sure friend," answered he. "I have many foes, and I am growing heavy)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with age.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So he went to see Olaf, and asked for a child to foster. Olaf took it with thanks, and Bersi carried)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Halldor home with him and got Steinvor to be nurse. This too misliked Thordis, and she laid hands on)Tj T* (every penny she could get \(for fear it should go to Steinvor and the foster-child\).)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At last Bersi took to ageing much. There was one time when men riding to the Thing stayed at his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (house. He sat all by himself, and his food was brought him before the rest were served. He had)Tj T* (porridge while other folk had cheese and curds. Then he made this verse:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("To batten the black-feathered wound-bird)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (With the blade of my axe have I stricken)Tj T* (Full thirty and five of my foemen;)Tj T* (I am famed for the slaughter of warriors.)Tj T* (May the fiends have my soul if I stain not)Tj T* (My sharp-edged falchion once over!)Tj T* (And then let the breaker of broadswords)Tj T* (Be borne - and with speed - to the grave!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("What?" said Halldor; "hast thou a mind to kill another man, then?")Tj T* (Answered Bersi, "I see the man it would rightly serve!")Tj T* (Now Thordis let her brother Vali feed his herds on the land of Brekka. Bersi bade his house-carles)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (work at home, and have no dealings with Vali; but still Halldor thought it a hardship that Bersi had not)Tj T* (his own will with his own wealth. One day Bersi made this verse:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Here we lie,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Both on one settle -)Tj T* (Halldor and I,)Tj T* (Men of no mettle.)Tj T* (Youth ails thee,)Tj T* (But thou’lt win through it;)Tj T* (Age ails me,)Tj T* (And I must rue it!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("I do hate Vali," said Halldor; and Bersi answered thus in verse:)Tj T* ("Yon Vali, so wight as he would be,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Well wot I our pasture he grazes;)Tj T* (Right fain yonder fierce helmet-wearer)Tj T* (Under foot my dead body would trample!)Tj T* (But often my wrongs have I wreaked)Tj T* (In wrath on the mail-coated warrior -)Tj T* (On the stems of the sun of the ocean)Tj T* (I have stained the wound-serpent for less!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And again he said:)Tj ET endstream endobj 82 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 84 0 obj << /Length 3266 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("With eld I am listless and lamed -)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (I, the lord of the gold of the armlet:)Tj T* (I sit, and am still under many)Tj T* (A slight from the warders of spear-meads.)Tj T* (Though shield-bearers shape for the singer)Tj T* (To shiver alone in the grave-mound,)Tj T* (Yet once in the war would I redden)Tj T* (The wand that hews helms ere I fail.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Thy heart is not growing old, foster-father mine!" cried Halldor.)Tj T* (Upon that Bersi fell into talk with Steinvor, and said to her "I am laying a plot, and I need thee to help )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (me.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (She said she would if she could.)Tj T* ("Pick a quarrel," said he, "with Thordis about the milk-kettle, and do thou hold on to it until you)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (whelm it over between you. Then I will come in and take her part and give thee nought but bad words.)Tj T* (Then go to Vali and tell him how ill we treat thee.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Everything turned out as he had planned. She went to Vali and told him that things were no way)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (smooth for her; would he take her over the gap \(to Bitra to her father’s\): and so he did.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when he was on the way back again, out came Bersi and Halldor to meet him. Bersi had a halberd)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (in one hand and a staff in the other, and Halldor had Whitting. As soon as Vali saw them he turned and)Tj T* (hewed at Bersi. Halldor came at his back and fleshed Whitting in his hough-sinews. Thereupon he)Tj T* (turned sharply and fell upon Halldor. Then Bersi set the halberd-point betwixt his shoulders. That was)Tj T* (his death-wound.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then they set his shield at his feet and his sword at his head, and spread his cloak over him; and after)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that got on horseback and rode to five homesteads to make known the deed they had done and then)Tj T* (rode home. Men went and buried Vali, and the place where he fell has ever since been called Vali’s )Tj T* (fall.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Halldor was twelve winters old when these doings came to pass.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 278.6001 Tm (Chapter 17 - How Steingerd Was Married Again.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 254.4001 Tm (Now there was a man named Thorvald, the son of Eystein, bynamed the Tinker: he was a wealthy)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (man, a smith, and a skald; but he was mean-spirited for all that. His brother Thorvard lived in the north)Tj T* (country at Fliot \(Fleet\); and they had many kinsmen, - the Skidings they were called, - but little luck or )Tj T* (liking.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Thorvald the Tinker asked Steingerd to wife. Her folk were for it, and she said nothing against it;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and so she was wed to him in the very same summer in which she left Bersi.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When Cormac heard the news he made as though he knew nothing whatever about the matter; for a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (little earlier he had taken his goods aboard ship, meaning to go away with his brother. But one)Tj T* (morning early he rode from the ship and went to see Steingerd; and when he got talk with her, he)Tj T* (asked would she make him a shirt. To which she answered that he had no business to pay her visits;)Tj T* (neither Thorvald nor his kinsmen would abide it, she said, but have their revenge.)Tj ET endstream endobj 85 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 87 0 obj << /Length 3034 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Thereupon he made his voice:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Nay, think it or thole it I cannot,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (That thou, a young fir of the forest)Tj T* (Enwreathed in the gold that thou guardest,)Tj T* (Shouldst be given to a tinkering tinsmith.)Tj T* (Nay, scarce can I smile, O thou glittering)Tj T* (In silk like the goddess of Baldur,)Tj T* (Since thy father handfasted and pledged thee,)Tj T* (So famed as thou art, to a coward.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("In such words," answered Steingerd, "an ill will is plain to hear. I shall tell Thorvald of this ribaldry:)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (no man would sit still under such insults.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then sang Cormac:)Tj T* ("What gain is to get if he threatens,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (White goddess in raiment of beauty,)Tj T* (The scorn that the Skidings may bear me?)Tj T* (I’ll set them a weft for their weaving!)Tj T* (I’ll rhyme you the roystering caitiffs)Tj T* (Till rocks go afloat on the water;)Tj T* (And lucky for them if they loosen)Tj T* (The line of their fate that I ravel!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereupon they parted with no blitheness, and Cormac went to his ship.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 390.8001 Tm (Chapter 18 - Cormac’s Voyage To Norway.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 366.6001 Tm (The two brothers had but left the roadstead, when close beside their ship, uprose a walrus. Cormac)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (hurled at it a pole-staff, which struck the beast, so that it sank again: but the men aboard thought that)Tj T* (they knew its eyes for the eyes of Thorveig the witch. 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The vikings had)Tj T* (given them up for lost, and fain were their folk when they came back with victory and wealth.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In this voyage the brothers got great renown: and late in the summer, when winter was coming on,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they made up their minds to steer for Norway. They met with cold winds; the sail was behung with)Tj T* (icicles, but the brothers were always to the fore. It was on his voyage that Cormac made the song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("O shake me yon rime from the awning;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Your singer’s a-cold in his berth;)Tj T* (For the hills are all hooded, dear Skardi,)Tj T* (In the hoary white veil of the firth.)Tj T* (There’s one they call Wielder of Thunder)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 2529 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (I would were as chill and as cold;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (But he leaves not the side of his lady)Tj T* (As the lindworm forsakes not its gold.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Always talking of her now!" said Thorgils; "and yet thou wouldst not have her when thou couldst.")Tj T* ("That was more the fault of witchcraft," answered Cormac, "that any want of faith in me.")Tj T* (Not long after they were sailing hard among crags, and shortened sail in great danger.)Tj T* ("It is a pity Thorvald Tinker is not with us here!" said Cormac.)Tj T* (Said Thorgils with a smile, "Most likely he is better off than we, to-day!")Tj T* (But before long they came to land in Norway.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 538.2 Tm (Chapter 19 - How Cormac Fought In Ireland, And Went)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Home To Iceland; And How He Met Steingerd Again.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 493.6 Tm (While they were abroad there had been a change of kings; Hakon was dead, and Harald Greyfell)Tj T* (reigned in his stead. They offered friendship to the king, and he took their suit kindly; so they went)Tj T* (with him to Ireland, and fought battles there.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Once upon a time when they had gone ashore with the king, a great host came against him, and as the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (armies met, Cormac made this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("I dread not a death from the foemen,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Though we dash at them, buckler to buckler,)Tj T* (While our prince in the power of his warriors)Tj T* (Is proud of me foremost in battle.)Tj T* (But the glimpse of a glory comes o’er me)Tj T* (Like the gleam of the moon on the skerry,)Tj T* (And I faint and I fail for my longing,)Tj T* (For the fair one at home in the North.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Ye never get into danger," said Thorgils, "but ye think of Steingerd!")Tj T* ("Nay," answered Cormac, "but it’s not often I forget her.")Tj T* (Well: this was a great battle, and king Harald won a glorious victory. While his men drove the rout)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (before him, the brothers were shoulder to shoulder; and they fell upon nine men at once and fought)Tj T* (them. And while they were at it, Cormac sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Fight on, arrow-driver, undaunted,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (And down with the foemen of Harald!)Tj T* (What are nine? they are nought! Thou and I, lad,)Tj T* (Are enough; - they are ours! - we have won them!)Tj T* (But - at home, - in the arms of an outlaw)Tj T* (That all the gods loathe for a monster,)Tj T* (So white and so winsome she nestles)Tj T* (- Yet once she was loving to me!")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 2988 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("It always comes down to that!" said Thorgils. When the fight was over, the brothers had got the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (victory, and the nine men had fallen before them; for which they won great praise from the king, and)Tj T* (many honours beside.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But while they were ever with the king in his warfarings, Thorgils was aware that Cormac was used to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sleep but little; and he asked why this might be. This was the song Cormac made in answer:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Surf on a rock-bound shore of the sea-king’s blue domain-)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Look how it lashes the crags, hark how it thunders again!)Tj T* (But all the din of the isles that the Delver heaves in foam)Tj T* (In the draught of the undertow glides out to the sea-gods’ home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now, which of us two should test? Is it thou, with thy heart at ease,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Or I that am surf on the shore in the tumult of angry seas?)Tj T* (- Drawn, if I sleep, to her that shines with the ocean-)Tj T* (- Dashed, when I wake, to woe, for the want of my glittering dream.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("And now let me tell you this, brother," he went on. "Hereby I give out that I am going back to )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Iceland.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Thorgils, "There is many a snare set for thy feet, brother, to drag thee down, I know not whither.")Tj T* (But when the king heard of his longing to begone, he sent for Cormac, and said that he did unwisely,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and would hinder him from his journey. But all this availed nothing, and aboard ship he went.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At the outset they met with foul winds, so that they shipped great seas, and the yard broke. Then)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Cormac sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("I take it not ill, like the Tinker)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (If a trickster had foundered his muck-sled;)Tj T* (For he loves not rough travelling, the losel,)Tj T* (And loath would he be of this uproar.)Tj T* (I flinch not, - nay, hear it, ye fearless)Tj T* (Who flee not when arrows are raining, -)Tj T* (Though the steeds of the ocean be storm-bound)Tj T* (And stayed in the harbour of Solund.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So they pushed out to sea, and hard weather they tholed. 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He went quickly from the boat, and got a horse, and)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 2601 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (rode to meet her. When they met, he leapt from horseback and helped her to alight, making a seat for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (her beside him on the ground.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Their horses wandered away: the day passed on, and it began to grow dark. At last Steingerd said, "It)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (is time to look for our horses.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Little search would be needed, said Cormac; but when he looked about, they were nowhere in sight.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (As it happened, they were hidden in a gill not far from where the two were sitting.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So, as night was hard at hand, they set out to walk, and came to a little farm, where they were taken in)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and treated well, even as they needed. That night they slept each on either side of the carven wainscot)Tj T* (that parted bed from bed: and Cormac made this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("We rest, O my beauty, my brightest,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (But a barrier lies ever between us.)Tj T* (So fierce are the fates and so mighty)Tj T* (- I feel it - that rule to their rede.)Tj T* (Ah, nearer I would be, and nigher,)Tj T* (Till nought should be left to dispart us,)Tj T* (- The wielder of Skofnung the wonder,)Tj T* (And the wearer of sheen from the deep.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("It was better thus," said Steingerd: but he sang:)Tj T* ("We have slept ’neath one roof-tree - slept softly,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (O sweet one, O queen of the mead-horn,)Tj T* (O glory of sea-dazzle gleaming,)Tj T* (These grim hours, - these five nights, I count them.)Tj T* (And here in the kettle-prow cabined)Tj T* (While the crow’s day drags on in the darkness,)Tj T* (How loathly me seems to be lying,)Tj T* (How lonely, - so near and so far!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("That," said she, "is all over and done with; name it no more." But he sang:)Tj T* ("The hot stone shall float, - ay, the hearth-stone)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Like a husk of the corn on the water,)Tj T* (- Ah, woe for the wight that she loves not! -)Tj T* (And the world, - ah, she loathes me! - shall perish,)Tj T* (And the fells that are famed for their hugeness)Tj T* (Shall fail and be drowned in the ocean,)Tj T* (Or ever so gracious a goddess)Tj T* (Shall grow into beauty like Steingerd.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Steingerd cried out that she would not have him make songs upon her: but he went on:)Tj T* ("I have known it and noted it clearly,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (O neckleted fair one, in visions,)Tj T* (- Is it doom for my hopes, - is it daring)Tj T* (To dream? - O so oft have I seen it! -)Tj T* (Even this, - that the boughs of thy beauty,)Tj T* (O braceleted fair one, shall twine them)Tj ET endstream endobj 97 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 99 0 obj << /Length 2818 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Round the hill where the hawk loves to settle,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The hand of thy lover, at last.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("That," said she, "never shall be, if I can help it. Thou didst let me go, once for all; and there is no)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (more hope for thee.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So then they slept the night long; and in the morning, when Cormac was making ready to be gone, he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (found Steingerd, and took the ring off his finger to give her.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Fiend take thee and thy gold together!" she cried. And this is what he answered:)Tj T* ("To a dame in her broideries dainty)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (This drift of the furnace I tendered;)Tj T* (O day of ill luck, for a lover)Tj T* (So lured, and so heartlessly cheated!)Tj T* (Too blithe in the pride of her beauty -)Tj T* (The bliss that I crave she denies me;)Tj T* (So rich that no boon can I render,)Tj T* (- And my ring she would hurl to the fiends!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So Cormac rode forth, being somewhat angry with Steingerd, but still more so with the Tinker. He)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (rode home to Mel, and stayed there all the winter, taking lodgings for his chapmen near the ship.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 443.6001 Tm (Chapter 20 - Of A Spiteful Song That Cormac Never Made;)Tj T* (And How Angry Steingerd Was.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 399.0002 Tm (Now Thorvald the Tinker lived in the north-country at Svinadal \(Swindale\), but his brother Thorvard)Tj T* (at Fliot. In the winter Cormac took his way northward to see Steingerd; and coming to Svinadal he)Tj T* (dismounted and went into the chamber. She was sitting on the dais, and he took his seat beside her;)Tj T* (Thorvald sat on the bench, and Narfi by him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then said Narfi to Thorvald, "How canst thou sit down, with Cormac here? It is no time, this, for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sitting still!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But Thorvald answered, "I am content; there is no harm done it seems to me, though they do talk )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (together.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("That is ill," said Narfi.)Tj T* (Not long afterwards Thorvald met his brother Thorvard and told him about Cormac’s coming to his )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (house.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Is it right, think you," said Thorvard, "to sit still while such things happen?")Tj T* (He answered that there was no harm done as yet, but that Cormac’s coming pleased him not.)Tj T* ("I’ll mend that," cried Thorvard, "if you dare not. The shame of it touches us all.")Tj T* (So this was the next thing, - that Thorvard came to Svinadal, and the Skiding brothers and Narfi paid a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (gangrel beggar-man to sing a song in the hearing of Steingerd, and to say that Cormac had made it, -)Tj T* (which was a lie. They said that Cormac had taught this song to one called Eylaug, a kinswoman of his;)Tj T* (and these were the words:)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 2662 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("I wish an old witch that I know of,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (So wealthy and proud of her havings,)Tj T* (Were turned to a steed in the stable)Tj T* (- Called Steingerd - and I were the rider!)Tj T* (I’d bit her, and bridle, and saddle,)Tj T* (I’d back her and drive her and tame her;)Tj T* (So many she owns for her masters,)Tj T* (But mine she will never become!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Steingerd grew exceedingly angry, so that she would not so much as hear Cormac named. When)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he heard that, he went to see her. Long time he tried in vain to get speech with her; but at last she gave)Tj T* (this answer, - that she misliked his holding her up to shame, - "And now it is all over the )Tj T* (country-side!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Cormac said it was not true; but she answered, "Thou mightest flatly deny it, if I had not heard it.")Tj T* ("Who sang it in thy hearing?" asked he.)Tj T* (She told him who sang it, - "And thou needest not hope for speech with me if this prove true.")Tj T* (He rode away to look for the rascal, and when he found him the truth was forced out at last. Cormac)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was very angry, and set on Narfi and slew him. That same onset was meant for Thorvald, but he hid)Tj T* (himself in the shadow and skulked, until men came between then and parted them. Said Cormac:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("There, hide in the house like a coward,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (And hope not hereafter to scare me)Tj T* (With the scorn of thy brethren the Skidings, -)Tj T* (I’ll set them a weft for their weaving!)Tj T* (I’ll rhyme on the swaggering rascals)Tj T* (Till rocks go afloat on the water;)Tj T* (And lucky for you if ye loosen)Tj T* (The line of your fate that I ravel!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (This went all over the country-side and the feud grew fiercer between them. The brothers Thorvald)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and Thorvard used big words, and Cormac was wroth when he heard them.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 276.4001 Tm (Chapter 21 - How Thorvard Would Not Fight, But Tried To)Tj T* (Get The Law Of Cormac.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 231.8001 Tm (After this Thorvard sent word from Fliot that he was fain to fight Cormac, and he fixed time and place,)Tj T* (saying that he would now take revenge for that song of shame and all other slights.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (To this Cormac agreed; and when the day came he went to the spot that was named, but Thorvard was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (not there, nor any of his men. Cormac met a woman from the farm hard by, who greeted him, and they)Tj T* (asked each other for news.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("What is your errand?" said she; "and why are you waiting here?")Tj T* (Then he answered with this song:)Tj ET endstream endobj 104 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 106 0 obj << /Length 2724 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("Too slow for the struggle I find him,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (That spender of fire from the ocean,)Tj T* (Who flung me a challenge to fight him)Tj T* (From Fleet in the land of the North.)Tj T* (That half-witted hero should get him)Tj T* (A heart made of clay for his carcase,)Tj T* (Though the mate of the may with the necklace)Tj T* (Is more of a fool than his fere!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Now," said Cormac, "I bid Thorvard anew to the holmgang, if he can be called in his right mind. Let)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (him be every man’s nithing if he come not!" and then he made this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("The nithing shall silence me never,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Though now for their shame they attack me,)Tj T* (But the wit of the Skald is my weapon,)Tj T* (And the wine of the gods will uphold me.)Tj T* (And this they shall feel in its fulness;)Tj T* (Here my fame has its birth and beginning;)Tj T* (And the stout spears of battle shall see it,)Tj T* (If I ’scape from their hands with my life.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then the brothers set on foot a law-suit against him for libel. Cormac’s kinsmen backed him up to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (answer it, and he would let no terms be made, saying that they deserved the shame put upon them, and)Tj T* (no honour; he was not unready to meet them, unless they played him false. Thorvard had not come to)Tj T* (the holmgang when he had been challenged, and therefore the shame had fallen of itself upon him and)Tj T* (his, and they must put up with it.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So time passed until the Huna-water Thing. Thorvard and Cormac both went to the meeting, and once)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they came together.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Much enmity we owe thee," said Thorvard, "and in many ways. Now therefore I challenge thee to the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (holmgang, here at the Thing.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Cormac, "Wilt thou be fitter than before? Thou hast drawn back time after time.")Tj T* ("Nevertheless," said Thorvard, "I will risk it. We can abide thy spite no longer.")Tj T* ("Well," said Cormac, "I’ll not stand in the way;" and went home to Mel.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 239 Tm (Chapter 22 - What The Witch Did For Them In Their Fights.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 214.8 Tm (At Spakonufell \(Spae-wife’s-fell\) lived Thordis the spae-wife, of whom we have told before, with her)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (husband Thorolf. They were both at the Thing, and many a man thought her good-will was of much)Tj T* (avail. So Thorvard sought her out, to ask her help against Cormac, and gave her a fee; and she made)Tj T* (him ready for the holmgang according to her craft.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Cormac told his mother what was forward, and she asked if he thought good would come of it.)Tj T* ("Why not?" said he.)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 2816 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("That will not be enough for thee," said Dalla. "Thorvard will never make bold to fight without)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (witchcraft to help him. I think it wise for thee to see Thordis the spae-wife, for there is going to be foul)Tj T* (play in this affair.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("It is little to my mind," said he; and yet went to see Thordis, and asked her help.)Tj T* ("Too late ye have come," said she. "No weapon will bite on him now. And yet I would not refuse thee.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Bide here to-night, and seek thy good luck. Anyway, I can manage so that iron bite thee no more than )Tj T* (him.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So Cormac stayed there for the night; and, awaking, found that some one was groping round the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (coverlet at his head. "Who is there?" he asked, but whoever it was made off, and out at the house-door,)Tj T* (and Cormac after. And then he saw it was Thordis, and she was going to the place where the fight was)Tj T* (to be, carrying a goose under her arm.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He asked what it all meant, and she set down the goose, saying, "Why couldn’t ye keep quiet?")Tj T* (So he lay down again, but held himself awake, for he wanted to know what she would be doing. Three)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (times she came, and every time he tried to find out what she was after. The third time, just as he came)Tj T* (out, she had killed two geese and let the blood run into a bowl, and she had taken up the third goose to)Tj T* (kill it.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("What means this business, foster-mother?" said he.)Tj T* ("True it will prove, Cormac, that you are a hard one to help," said she. "I was going to break the spell)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorveig laid on thee and Steingerd. Ye could have loved one another been happy if I had killed the)Tj T* (third goose and no one seen it.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("I believe nought of such things," cried he; and this song he made about it:)Tj T* ("I gave her an ore at the ayre,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (That the arts of my foe should not prosper;)Tj T* (And twice she has taken the knife,)Tj T* (And twice she has offered the offering;)Tj T* (But the blood is the blood of a goose -)Tj T* (What boots it if two should be slaughtered? -)Tj T* (Never sacrifice geese for a Skald)Tj T* (Who sings for the glory of Odin!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So they went to the holmgang: but Thorvald gave the spae-wife a still greater fee, and offered the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sacrifice of geese; and Cormac said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("Trust never another man’s mistress!)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (For I know, on this woman who weareth)Tj T* (The fire of the field of the sea-king)Tj T* (The fiends have been riding to revel.)Tj T* (The witch with her hoarse cry is working)Tj T* (For woe when we go to the holmgang,)Tj T* (And if bale be the end of the battle)Tj T* (The blame, be assured, will be hers.")Tj ET endstream endobj 110 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 112 0 obj << /Length 2975 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw ("Well," she said, "I can manage so that none shall know thee." Then Cormac began to upbraid her,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (saying she did nought but ill, and wanting to drag her out to the door to look at her eyes in the)Tj T* (sunshine. His brother Thorgils made him leave that: "What good will it do thee?" said he.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Steingerd gave out that she had a mind to see the fight; and so she did. When Cormac saw her he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (made this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("I have fared to the field of the battle,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (O fair one that wearest the wimple!)Tj T* (And twice for thy sake have I striven;)Tj T* (What stays me as now from thy favour?)Tj T* (This twice have I gotten thee glory,)Tj T* (O goddess of ocean! and surely)Tj T* (To my dainty delight, to my darling)Tj T* (I am dearer by far than her mate.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So then they set to. Cormac’s sword bit not at all, and for a long while they smote strokes one upon the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (other, but neither sword bit. At last Cormac smote upon Thorvard’s side so great a blow that his ribs)Tj T* (gave way and were broken; he could fight no more, and thereupon they parted. Cormac looked and)Tj T* (saw where a bull was standing, which he slew for a sacrifice; and being heated, he doffed his helmet)Tj T* (from his head, saying this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("I have fared to the field of the battle,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (O fair one that wearest the bracelet!)Tj T* (Even three times for thee have I striven,)Tj T* (And this thou canst never deny me.)Tj T* (But the reed of the fight would not redden,)Tj T* (Though it rang on the shield-bearer’s harness;)Tj T* (For the spells of a spae-wife had blunted)Tj T* (My sword that was eager for blood.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He wiped the sweat from him on the corner of Steingerd’s mantle; and said:)Tj T* ("So oft, being wounded and weary,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (I must wipe my sad brow on thy mantle.)Tj T* (What pangs for thy sake are my portion,)Tj T* (O pine-tree with red gold enwreathed!)Tj T* (Yet beside thee he snugs on the settle)Tj T* (As thou seamest thy broidery, - that rhymester!)Tj T* (And the shame of it whelms me in sorrow,)Tj T* (O Steingerd! - that rascal unslain!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And then Cormac prayed Steingerd that she would go with him: but Nay, she said; she would have her)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (own way about men. So they parted, and both were ill pleased.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorvard was taken home, and she bound his wounds. Cormac was now always meeting with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Steingerd. Thorvard healed but slowly; and when he could get on his feet he went to see Thordis, and)Tj T* (asked her what was best to help his healing.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("A hill there is," answered she, "not far away from here, where elves have their haunt. Now get you)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the bull that Cormac killed, and redden the outer side of the hill with its blood, and make a feast for the)Tj T* (elves with its flesh. Then thou wilt be healed.")Tj ET endstream endobj 113 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 115 0 obj << /Length 2663 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (So they sent word to Cormac that they would buy the bull. He answered that he would sell it, but then)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he must have the ring that was Steingerd’s. So they brought the ring, took the bull, and did with it as)Tj T* (Thordis bade them do. On which Cormac made a song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("When the workers of wounds are returning,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (And with them the sacrifice reddened,)Tj T* (Then a lady in raiment of linen,)Tj T* (Who loved me, time was, - she will ask:)Tj T* (My ring, - have ye robbed me? - where is it?)Tj T* (- I have wrought them no little displeasure:)Tj T* (For the swain that is swarthy has won it,)Tj T* (The son of old Ogmund, the skald.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (It fell out as he guessed. Steingerd was very angry because they had sold her ring.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 542.6 Tm (Chapter 23 - How Cormac Beat Thorvard Again.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 518.4 Tm (After that, Thorvard was soon healed, and when he thought he was strong again, he rode to Mel and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (challenged Cormac to the holmgang.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("It takes thee long to tire of it," said Cormac: "but I’ll not say thee nay.")Tj T* (So they went to the fight, and Thordis met Thorvard now as before, but Cormac sought no help from)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (her. She blunted Cormac’s sword, so that it would not bite, but yet he struck so great a stroke on)Tj T* (Thorvard’s shoulder that the collarbone was broken and his hand was good for nothing. Being so)Tj T* (maimed he could fight no longer, and had to pay another ring for his ransom.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorolf of Spakonufell set upon Cormac and struck at him. He warded off the blow and sang this )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("This reddener of shields, feebly wrathful,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (His rusty old sword waved against me,)Tj T* (Who am singer and sacred to Odin!)Tj T* (Go, snuffle, most wretched of men, thou!)Tj T* (A thrust of thy sword is as thewless)Tj T* (As thou, silly stirrer of battle.)Tj T* (What danger to me from thy daring,)Tj T* (Thou doited old witch-woman’s carle?")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then he killed a bull in sacrifice according to use and wont, saying, "Ill we brook your overbearing)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and the witchcraft of Thordis:" and he made this song:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("The witch in the wave of the offering)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Has wasted the flame of the buckler,)Tj T* (Lest its bite on his back should be deadly)Tj T* (At the bringing together of weapons.)Tj T* (My sword was not sharp for the onset)Tj T* (When I sought the helm-wearer in battle;)Tj T* (But the cur got enough to cry craven,)Tj T* (With a clout that will mind him of me!")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 2972 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (After that each party went home, and neither was well pleased with these doings.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 709.8 Tm (Chapter 24 - How They All Went Out To Norway.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 685.6 Tm (Now all the winter long Cormac and Thorgils laid up their ship in Hrutafiord; but in spring the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (chapmen were off to sea, and so the brothers made up their minds for the voyage. When they were)Tj T* (ready to start, Cormac went to see Steingerd: and before they two parted he kissed her twice, and his)Tj T* (kisses were not at all hasty. The Tinker would not have it; and so friends on both sides came in, and it)Tj T* (was settled that Cormac should pay for this that he had done.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("How much?" asked he.)Tj T* ("The two rings that I parted with," said Thorvard. Then Cormac made a song:)Tj T* ("Here is gold of the other’s well gleaming)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (In guerdon for this one and that one, -)Tj T* (Here is treasure of Fafnir the fire-drake)Tj T* (In fee for the kiss of my lady.)Tj T* (Never wearer of ring, never wielder)Tj T* (Of weapon has made such atonement;)Tj T* (Never dearer were deeply-drawn kisses, -)Tj T* (For the dream of my bliss is betrayed.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And then, when he started to go aboard his ship he made another song:)Tj T* ("One song from my heart would I send her)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Ere we shall, ere I leave her and lose her,)Tj T* (That dainty one, decked in her jewels)Tj T* (Who dwells in the valley of Swindale.)Tj T* (And each word that I utter shall enter)Tj T* (The ears of that lady of bounty,)Tj T* (Saying - Bright one, my beauty, I love thee,)Tj T* (Ah, better by far than my life!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So Cormac went abroad and his brother Thorgils went with him; and when they came to the king’s)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (court they were made welcome.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now it is told that Steingerd spoke to Thorvald the Tinker that they also should abroad together. He)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (answered that it was mere folly, but nevertheless he could not deny her. So they set off on their)Tj T* (voyage: and as they made their way across the sea, they were attacked by vikings who fell on them to)Tj T* (rob them and to carry away Steingerd. But it so happened that Cormac heard of it; and he made after)Tj T* (them and gave good help, so that they saved everything that belonged to them, and came safely at last)Tj T* (to the court of the king of Norway.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (One day Cormac was walking in the street, and spied Steingerd sitting within doors. So he went into)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the house and sat down beside her, and they had a talk together which ended in his kissing her four)Tj T* (kisses. But Thorvald was on the watch. He drew his sword, but the women-folk rushed in to part them,)Tj T* (and word was sent to King Harald. He said they were very troublesome people to keep in order. - "But)Tj T* (let me settle this matter between you," said he; and they agreed.)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 2974 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Then spake the king: "One kiss shall be atoned for by this, that Cormac helped you to get safely to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (land. The next kiss is Cormac’s, because he saved Steingerd. For the other two he shall pay two)Tj T* (ounces of gold.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Upon which Cormac sang the same song that he had made before:)Tj T* ("Here is gold of the otter’s well gleaming)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (In guerdon for this one and that one, -)Tj T* (Here is treasure of Fafnir the fire-drake)Tj T* (In fee for the kiss of my lady.)Tj T* (Never wearer of ring, never wielder)Tj T* (Of weapon has made such atonement;)Tj T* (Never dearer were deeply-drawn kisses -)Tj T* (And the dream of my bliss is betrayed.")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Another day he was walking in the street and met Steingerd again. He turned to her and prayed her to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (walk with him. She would not; whereupon he laid hand on her, to lead her along. She cried out for)Tj T* (help; and as it happened, the king was standing not far off, and went up to them. He thought this)Tj T* (behaviour most unseemly, and took her away, speaking sharply to Cormac. King Harald made himself)Tj T* (very angry over this affair; but Cormac was one of his courtiers, and it was not long before he got into)Tj T* (favour again, and then things went fair and softly for the rest of the winter.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 452.4001 Tm (Chapter 25 - How They Cruised With The King’s Fleet, And)Tj T* (Quarrelled, And Made It Up.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 407.8001 Tm (In the following spring King Harald set forth to the land of Permia with a great host. Cormac was one)Tj T* (of the captains in that warfaring, and in another ship was Thorvald: the other captains of ships are not)Tj T* (named in our story.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now as they were all sailing in close order through a narrow sound, Cormac swung his steering-oar)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and hit Thorvald a clout on the ear, so that he fell from his place at the helm in a swoon; and Cormac’s)Tj T* (ship hove to, when she lost her rudder. Steingerd had been sitting beside Thorvald; she laid hold of the)Tj T* (tiller, and ran Cormac down. When he saw what she was doing, he sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD ("There is one that is nearer and nigher)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (To the noblest of dames than her lover:)Tj T* (With the haft of the helm is he smitten)Tj T* (On the hat-block - and fairly amidships!)Tj T* (The false heir of Eystein - he falters -)Tj T* (He falls in the poop of his galley!)Tj T* (Nay! steer not upon me, O Steingerd,)Tj T* (Though stoutly ye carry the day!")Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So Cormac’s ship capsized under him; but his crew were saved without loss of time, for there were)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (plenty of people round about. Thorvald soon came round again, and they all went on their way. The)Tj T* (king offered to settle the matter between them; and when they both agreed, he gave judgment that)Tj T* (Thorvald’s hurt was atoned for by Cormac’s upset.)Tj ET endstream endobj 122 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 124 0 obj << /Length 2534 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (In the evening they went ashore; and the king and his men sat down to supper. Cormac was sitting)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (outside the door of a tent, drinking out of the same cup with Steingerd. While they were busy at it, a)Tj T* (young fellow for mere sport and mockery stole the brooch out of Cormac’s fur cloak, which he had)Tj T* (doffed and laid aside; and when he came to take his cloak again, the brooch was gone. He sprang up)Tj T* (and rushed after the young fellow, with the spear that he called Vigr \(the spear\) and shot at him, but)Tj T* (missed. 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