%PDF-1.3 %âãÏÓ 2 0 obj << /Length 89 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 22.8 0 0 22.8 243.8389 620.8142 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil’s Saga)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 3932 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 19 0 0 19 71 734.2 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil’s Saga)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 710 Tm (1893 translation into English by W. C. Green from the original Icelandic ’Egils saga )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Skallagrímssonar’.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 662.8 Tm (Chapter 1 - Of Kveldulf and his sons.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 638.6 Tm (There was a man named Ulf, son of Bjalf, and Hallbera, daughter of Ulf the fearless; she was sister of)Tj T* (Hallbjorn Half-giant in Hrafnista, and he the father of Kettle Hæing. Ulf was a man so tall and strong)Tj T* (that none could match him, and in his youth he roved the seas as a freebooter. In fellowship with him)Tj T* (was one Kari of Berdla, a man of renown for strength and daring; he was a Berserk. Ulf and he had)Tj T* (one common purse, and were the dearest friends.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when they gave up freebooting, Kari went to his estate at Berdla, being a man of great wealth.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Three children had Kari, one son named Eyvind Lambi, another Aulvir Hnuf, and a daughter Salbjorg,)Tj T* (who was a most beautiful woman of a noble spirit. Her did Ulf take to wife, and then he too went to)Tj T* (his estates. Wealthy he was both in lands and chattels; he took baron’s rank as his forefathers had)Tj T* (done, and became a great man. It was told of Ulf that he was a great householder; it was his wont to)Tj T* (rise up early, and then go round among his labourers or where his smiths were, and to overlook his)Tj T* (stalk and fields, and at times he would talk with such as needed his counsel, and good counsel he could)Tj T* (give in all things, for he was very wise. But everyday as evening drew on he became sullen, so that)Tj T* (few could come to speak with him. He was an evening sleeper, and it was commonly said that he was)Tj T* (very shape strong. He was called Kveldulf.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Kveldulf and his wife had two sons, the elder was named Thorolf, the younger Grim; these, when they)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (grew up, were both tall men and strong, as was their father. But Thorolf was most comely as well as)Tj T* (doughty, favoring his mother’s kin; very cheery was he, liberal, impetuous in everything, a good)Tj T* (trader, winning the hearts of all men. Grim was swarthy, ill-favoured, like his father both in face and)Tj T* (mind; he became a good man of business; skilful was he in wood and iron, an excellent smith. In the)Tj T* (winter he often went to the herring fishing, and with him many house-carles.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Thorolf was twenty years old, then he made him ready to go a harrying. Kveldulf gave him a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (long-ship, and Kari of Berdla’s sons, Eyvind and Aulvir, resolved to go on that voyage, taking a large)Tj T* (force and another long-ship; and they roved the seas in the summer, and got them wealth, and had a)Tj T* (large booty to divide. For several summers they were out roving, but stayed at home in winter with)Tj T* (their fathers. Thorolf brought home many costly things, and took them to his father and mother; thus)Tj T* (they were well-to-do both for possessions and honour. Kveldulf was now well stricken in years, and)Tj T* (his sons were grown men.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 215.2001 Tm (Chapter 2 - Of Aulvir Hnuf.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 191.0001 Tm (Audbjorn was then king over the Firthfolk; there was an earl of his named Hroald, whose son was)Tj T* (Thorir. Atli the Slim was then an earl, he dwelt at Gaula; he had sons - Hallstein, Holmstein, and)Tj T* (Herstein; and a daughter, Solveig the Fair. It happened one autumn that much people were gathered at)Tj T* (Gaula for a sacrificial feast, then saw Aulvir Hnuf Solveig and courted her; he afterwards asked her to)Tj T* (wife. But the earl thought him an unequal match and would not give her. Whereupon Aulvir composed)Tj T* (many love-songs, and thought so much of Solveig that he left freebooting, but Thorolf and Eyvind)Tj T* (Lambi kept it on.)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 4395 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 3 - The beginning of the rule of Harold Fairhair.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (Harold, son of Halfdan Swarthy, was heir after his father. He had bound himself by this vow, not to let)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (his hair be cut or combed till he were sole king over Norway, wherefore he was called Harold)Tj T* (Shockhead. So first he warred with the kings nearest to him and conquered them, as is told at length)Tj T* (elsewhere. Then he got possession of Upland; thence he went northwards to Throndheim, and had)Tj T* (many battles there before he became absolute over all the Thronds. After that he purposed to go north)Tj T* (to Naumdale to attack the brothers Herlaug and Hrollaug, kings of Naumdale. But when these brothers)Tj T* (heard of his coming, Herlaug with twelve men entered the sepulchral mound which they had caused to)Tj T* (be made \(they were three winters at the making\), and the mound then was closed after them. But king)Tj T* (Hrollaug sank from royalty to earldom, giving up his kingdom and becoming a vassal of Harold. So)Tj T* (Harold gained the Naumdalesmen and Halogaland, and he set rulers over his realm there. Then went)Tj T* (he southwards with a fleet to Mæra and Raumsdale. But Solvi Bandy-legs, Hunthiof’s son, escaped)Tj T* (thence, and going to king Arnvid, in South Mæra, he asked help, with these words:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Though this danger now touches us, before long the same will come to you; for Harold, as I ween,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (will hasten hither when he has enthralled and oppressed after his will all in North Mæra and)Tj T* (Raumsdale. Then will the same need be upon you as was upon us, to guard your wealth and liberty,)Tj T* (and to try everyone from whom you may hope for aid. And I now offer myself with my forces against)Tj T* (this tyranny and wrong. But, if you make the other choice, you must do as the Naumdalesmen have)Tj T* (done, and go of your own will into slavery, and become Harold’s thralls. My father though it victory to)Tj T* (die a king with honour rather than become in his old age another king’s subject. Thou, as I judge, wilt)Tj T* (think the same, and so will others who have any high spirit and claim to be men of valour.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (By such persuasion king Arnvid was determined to gather his forces and defend his land. He and Solvi)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (made a league, and sent messengers to Audbjorn, king of the Firthfolk, that he should come and help)Tj T* (them. Audbjorn, after counsel taken with friends, consented, and bade cut the war-arrow and send the)Tj T* (war-summons throughout his realm, with word to his nobles that they should join him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when the king’s messengers came to Kveldulf and told him their errand, and that the king would)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (have Kveldulf come to him with all his house-carles, then answered he:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’It is my duty to the king to take the field with him if he have to defend his own land, and there be)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (harrying against the Firthfolk; but this I deem clean beyond my duty, to go north to Mæra and defend)Tj T* (their land. Briefly ye may say when ye meet your king that Kveldulf will sit at home during this rush)Tj T* (to war, nor will he gather forces nor leave his home to fight with Harold Shockhead. For I think that he)Tj T* (has a whole load of good-fortune where our king has not a handful.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The messengers went back to the king, and told him how their errand had sped; but Kveldulf sat at)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (home on his estates.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 201.0001 Tm (Chapter 4 - Battle of king Harold and Audbjorn.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 176.8001 Tm (King Audbjorn went with his forces northwards to Mæra; there he joined king Arnvid and Solvi)Tj T* (Bandy-legs, and altogether they had a large host. King Harold also had come from the north with his)Tj T* (forces, and the armies met inside Solskel. There was fought a great battle, with much slaughter in)Tj T* (either host. Of the Mærian forces fell the kings Arnvid and Audbjorn, but Solvi escaped, and)Tj T* (afterwards became a great sea-rover, and wrought much scathe on Harold’s kingdom, and was)Tj T* (nicknamed Bandy-legs. On Harold’s side fell two earls, Asgaut and Asbjorn, and two sons of earl)Tj T* (Hacon, Grjotgard and Herlaug, and many other great men. After this Harold subdued South Mæra.)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 (Vemund Audbjorn’s brother still retained the Firthfolk, being made king. It was now autumn, and king)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Harold was advised not to go south in autumn-tide. So he set earl Rognvald over North and South)Tj T* (Mæra and Raumsdale, and kept a numerous force about himself.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That same autumn the sons of Atli set on Aulvir Hnuf at his home, and would fain have slain him.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (They had such a force that Aulvir could not withstand them, but fled for his life. Going northwards to)Tj T* (Mæra, he there found Harold, and submitted to him, and went north with the king to Throndheim, and)Tj T* (he became most friendly with him, and remained with him for a long time thereafter, and was made a )Tj T* (skald.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the winter following earl Rognvald went the inner way by the Eid-sea southwards to the Firths.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Having news by spies of the movements of king Vemund, he came by night to Naust-dale, where)Tj T* (Vemund was at a banquet, and, surrounding the house, burnt within it the king and ninety men. After)Tj T* (that Karl of Berdla came to earl Rognvald with a long-ship fully manned, and they two went north to)Tj T* (Mæra. Rognvald took the ships that had belonged to Vemund and all the chattels he could get. Kari of)Tj T* (Berdla then went north to king Harold at Throndheim, and became his man.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Next spring king Harold went southwards along the coast with a fleet, and subdued firths and fells, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (arranged for men of his own to rule them. Earl Hroald he set over the Firthfolk. King Harold was very)Tj T* (careful, when he had gotten new peoples under his power, about barons and rich landowners, and all)Tj T* (those whom he suspected of being at all likely to raise rebellion. Every such man he treated in one of)Tj T* (two ways: he either made him become his liege-man, or go abroad; or \(as a third choice\) suffer yet)Tj T* (harder conditions, some even losing life or limb. Harold claimed as his own through every district all)Tj T* (patrimonies, and all land tilled or untilled, likewise all seas and freshwater lakes. All landowners were)Tj T* (to be his tenants, as also all that worked in the forest, salt-burners, hunters and fishers by land and sea,)Tj T* (all these owed him duty. But many fled abroad from this tyranny, and much waste land was then)Tj T* (colonized far and wide, both eastwards in Jamtaland and Helsingjaland, and also the West lands, the)Tj T* (Southern isles, Dublin in Ireland, Caithness in Scotland, and Shetland. And in that time Iceland was )Tj T* (found.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 346.8002 Tm (Chapter 5 - The king’s message to Kveldulf.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 322.6002 Tm (King Harold lay with his fleet in the Firths, whence he sent messengers round the land to such as had)Tj T* (not come to him, but with whom he thought he had business. The messengers came to Kveldulf, and)Tj T* (were well received. They set forth their errand, said that the king would have Kveldulf come to him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’He has heard,’ said they, ’that you are a man of renown and high family. You will get from him terms)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of great honour, for the king is very keen on this, to have with him such as he hears are men of mark)Tj T* (for strength and bravery.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Kveldulf answered that he was an old man, not fit for war or to be out in warships. ’I will now,’ said)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he, ’sit at home and leave serving kings.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Upon this the messengers said, ’Then let your son go to the king; he is a tall man and a likely warrior.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The king will make you a baron,’ said they to Grim, ’if you will serve him.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I will be made baron under none,’ said Grim, ’while my father lives; he, while he lives, shall be my )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (liege-lord.’)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 4413 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The messengers went away, and when they came to the king told him all that Kveldulf had said before)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (them. Whereat the king looked sullen, but he spoke little; these men, he said, were proud, or what were)Tj T* (they aiming at? Aulvir Hnuf was standing near, and he bade the king not be wroth. ’I will go,’ said he,)Tj T* (’to Kveldulf; and he will consent to come to you, as soon as he knows that you think it a matter of )Tj T* (moment.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So Aulvir went to Kveldulf and told him that the king was wroth, and it would not go well unless one)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of the two, father or son, came to the king; he said, too, that he would get them great honour from the)Tj T* (king if they would but pay homage. Further he told them at length, as was true, that the king was)Tj T* (liberal to his men both in money and in honours.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Kveldulf said, ’My foreboding is that I and my sons shall get no luck from this king: and I will not go)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to him. But if Thorolf returns this summer, he will be easily won to this journey, as also to be made the)Tj T* (king’s man. Say you this to the king, that I will be his friend, and will keep to his friendship all who)Tj T* (heed my words; I will also hold the same rule and authority from his hand that I held before from the)Tj T* (former king, if he will that it continue so still, and I will see how I and the king agree.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Aulvir went back and told the king that Kveldulf would send him his son, and he \(said Aulvir\))Tj 0 -1.2 TD (would suit better; but he was not then at home. The king let the matter rest. In the summer he went)Tj T* (inland to Sogn, but in autumn made ready to go northwards to Throndheim.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 465.6001 Tm (Chapter 6 - Thorolf resolves to serve the king.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 441.4001 Tm (Thorolf Kveldulf’s son and Eyvind Lambi came home from sea-roving in the autumn. Thorolf went to)Tj T* (his father, and father and son had some talk together. Thorolf asked what had been the errand of the)Tj T* (men whom Harold sent thither. Kveldulf said the king had sent them with this message, that Kveldulf)Tj T* (or else one of his sons should become his man.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’How answeredst thou?’ said Thorolf.)Tj T* (’I spake what was in my mind, that I would never take service with king Harold; and ye two will both)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (do the same, if I may counsel: this I think will be the end, that we shall reap ruin from that king.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’That,’ said Thorolf, ’is quite contrary to what my mind tells me, for I think I shall get from him much)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (advancement. And on this I am resolved, to seek the king, and become his man; and this I have learnt)Tj T* (for true, that his guard is made up of none but valiant men. To join their company, if they will have)Tj T* (me, seems to me most desirable; these men are in far better case than all others in the land. And ’tis)Tj T* (told me of the king that he is most generous in money gifts to his men, and not slow to give them)Tj T* (promotion and to grant rule to such as he deems meet for it. Whereas I hear this about all that turn their)Tj T* (backs upon him and pay him not homage with friendship, that they all become men of nought, some)Tj T* (flee abroad, some are made hirelings. It seems wonderful to me, father, in a man so wise and ambitious)Tj T* (as thou art, that thou wouldst not thankfully take the dignity which the king offered thee. But if thou)Tj T* (thinkest that thou hast prophetic foresight of this, that we shall get misfortune from this king, and that)Tj T* (he will be our enemy, then why didst thou not go to battle against him with that king in whose service)Tj T* (thou wert before? Now, methinks it is most unreasonable neither to be his friend nor his enemy.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’It went,’ said Kveldulf, ’just as my mind foreboded, that they marched not to victory who went)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (northwards to fight with Harold Shockhead in Mæra; and equally true will this be, that Harold will)Tj T* (work much scathe on my kin. But thou, Thorolf, wilt take thine own counsel in thine own business;)Tj T* (nor do I fear, though thou enter into the company of Harold’s guards, that thou wilt not be thought)Tj T* (capable and equal to the foremost in all proofs of manhood. Only beware of this, keep within bounds,)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 4107 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (nor rival thy betters; thou wilt not, I am sure, yield to others overmuch.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Thorolf made him ready to go, Kveldulf accompanied him down to the ship and embraced)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (him, with wishes for his happy journey and their next merry meeting.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 672.4 Tm (Chapter 7 - Of Bjorgolf, Brynjolf, Bard, and Hildirida.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 648.2001 Tm (There was a man in Halogaland named Bjorgolf; he dwelt in Torgar. He was a baron, powerful and)Tj T* (wealthy; in strength, stature, and kindred half hill-giant. He had a son named Brynjolf, who was like)Tj T* (his father. Bjorgolf was now old, and his wife was dead; and he had given over into his son’s hands all)Tj T* (business, and found him a wife, Helga, daughter of Kettle Hæing of Hrafnista. Their son was named)Tj T* (Bard; he soon grew to be tall and handsome, and became a right doughty man.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (One autumn there was a banquet where many men were gathered, Bjorgolf and his son being there the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (most honourable guests. In the evening they were paired off by lot to drink together, as the old custom)Tj T* (was. Now, there was at the banquet a man named Hogni, owner of a farm in Leka, a man of great)Tj T* (wealth, very handsome, shrewd, but of low family, who had made his own way. He had a most)Tj T* (beautiful daughter, Hildirida by name; and it fell to her lot to sit by Bjorgolf. They talked much)Tj T* (together that evening, and the fair maiden charmed the old man. Shortly afterwards the banquet broke )Tj T* (up.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That same autumn old Bjorgolf journeyed from home in a cutter of his own, with thirty men aboard.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (He came to Leka, and twenty of them went up to the house, while ten guarded the ship. When they)Tj T* (came to the farm, Hogni went out to meet him, and made him welcome, invited him and his comrades)Tj T* (to lodge there, which offer Bjorgolf accepted, and they entered the room. But when they had doffed)Tj T* (their travelling clothes and donned mantles, then Hogni gave orders to bring in a large bowl of beer;)Tj T* (and Hildirida, the daughter of the house, bare ale to the guests.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bjorgolf called to him Hogni the goodman, and said, ’My errand here is this: I will have your daughter)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to go home with me, and will even now make with her a hasty wedding.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Hogni saw no choice but to let all be as Bjorgolf would; so Bjorgolf bought her with an ounce of gold,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and they became man and wife, and Hildirida went home with Bjorgolf to Torgar. Brynjolf showed)Tj T* (him ill-pleased at this business. Bjorgolf and Hildirida had two sons; one was named Harek, the other )Tj T* (Hærek.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Soon after this Bjorgolf died; but no sooner was he buried than Brynjolf sent away Hildirida and her)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sons. She went to her father at Leka, and there her sons were brought up. They were good-looking,)Tj T* (small of stature, naturally shrewd, like their mother’s kin. They were commonly called Hildirida’s)Tj T* (sons. Brynjolf made little count of them, and did not let them inherit aught of their father’s. Hildirida)Tj T* (was Hogni’s heiress, and she and her sons inherited from him and dwelt in Leka, and had plenty of)Tj T* (wealth. Bard, Brynjolf’s son, and Hildirida’s sons were about of an age.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bjorgolf and his son Brynjolf had long held the office of going to the Finns, and collecting the Finns’ )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (tribute.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Northwards, in Halogaland is a firth called Vefsnir, and in the firth lies an island called Alost, a large)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (island and a good, and in this a farm called Sandness. There dwelt a man named Sigurd, the richest)Tj T* (man thereabouts in the north; he was a baron, and wise of understanding. He had a daughter named)Tj T* (Sigridr; she was thought the best match in Halogaland, being his only child and sole heiress to her)Tj T* (father. Bard Brynjolf’s son journeyed from home with a cutter and thirty men aboard northwards to)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 3949 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Alost, and came to Sigurd at Sandness. There he declared his business, and asked Sigridr to wife. This)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (offer was well received and favourable answered, and so it came about that Bard was betrothed to the)Tj T* (maiden. The marriage was to take place the next summer. Bard was then to come north for the )Tj T* (wedding.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 670.2 Tm (Chapter 8 - Of Bard and Thorolf.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 646 Tm (King Harold had that summer sent word to the men of power that were in Halogaland, summoning to)Tj T* (him such as had not come to him before. Brynjolf resolved to go, and with him Bard his son; and in)Tj T* (the autumn they went southwards to Throndheim, and there met the king. He received them most)Tj T* (gladly. Brynjolf was made a baron of the king’s; the king also gave him large grants beside what he)Tj T* (had before. He gave him withal the right of journey to the Finns, with the king’s business on the fells)Tj T* (and the Finn traffic. Then Brynjolf went away home to his estate, but Bard remained, and was made)Tj T* (one of the king’s guard.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Of all his guard the king most prized his skalds; they occupied the second high seat. Of these Audun)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Ill-skald sat innermost, being the oldest; he had been skald to Halfdan Swarthy, king Harold’s father.)Tj T* (Next to him sat Thorbjorn Raven, then Aulvir Hnuf, and next to him was placed Bard; he was there)Tj T* (by-named Bard the White or Bard the Strong. He was in honour with everyone there, but between him)Tj T* (and Aulvir Hnuf was a close friendship.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That same autumn came to king Harold Thorolf Kveldulf’s son and Eyvind Lambi, Kari of Berdla’s)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (son, and they were well received. They brought thither a swift twenty-benched long-ship well manned,)Tj T* (which they had before used in sea-roving. They and their company were placed in the guest-hall; but)Tj T* (when they had waited there till they thought it a fit time to go before the king, Kari of Berdla and)Tj T* (Aulvir Hnuf went in with them. They greeted the king. Then said Aulvir Hnuf, ’Here is come)Tj T* (Kveldulf’s son, whom I told thee in the summer Kveldulf would send. His promise to thee will now)Tj T* (stand fast; for here thou canst see true tokens that he will be thy friend in all when he hath sent his son)Tj T* (hither to take service with thee, a stalwart man as thou mayest see. Now, this is the boon craved by)Tj T* (Kveldulf and by us all, that thou receive Thorolf with honour and make him a great man with thee.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king answered his words well, promising that so he would do, ’If,’ said he, ’Thorolf proves)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (himself as accomplished in deed as he is right brave in look.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this Thorolf was made of the king’s household, and one of his guard.)Tj T* (But Kari of Berdla and his son Eyvind Lambi went back south in the ship which Thorolf had brought)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (north, and so home to Kari’s farm. Thorolf remained with the king, who appointed him a seat between)Tj T* (Aulvir Hnuf and Bard; and these three struck up a close friendship. And all men said of Thorolf and)Tj T* (Bard that they were a well-matched pair for comeliness, stature, strength, and all doughty deeds. And)Tj T* (both were in high favour with the king.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when winter was past and summer came, then Bard asked leave to go and see to the marriage)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (promised to him the summer before. And when the king knew that Bard’s errand was urgent, he)Tj T* (allowed him to go home. Then Bard asked Thorolf to go north with him, saying \(as was true\) that he)Tj T* (would meet there many of his kin, men of renown, whom he had not yet seen or known. Thorolf)Tj T* (thought this desirable, so they got leave from the king for this; then they made them ready, took a good)Tj T* (ship and crew, and went their way.)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 4220 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (When they came to Torgar, they sent word to Sigurd that Bard would now see to that marriage on)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (which they had agreed the summer before. Sigurd said that he would hold to all that they had arranged;)Tj T* (so they fixed the wedding-day, and Bard with his party were to come north to Sandness. At the)Tj T* (appointed time Brynjolf and Bard set out, and with them many great men of their kin and connexions.)Tj T* (And it was as Bard had said, that Thorolf met there many of his kinsmen that he had not known before.)Tj T* (They journeyed to Sandness, and there was held the most splendid feast. And when the feast was)Tj T* (ended, Bard went home with his wife, and remained at home through the summer, and Thorolf with )Tj T* (him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the autumn they came south to the king, and were with him another winter. During that winter)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Brynjolf died; and when Bard learnt that the inheritance there was open for him, he asked leave to go)Tj T* (home. This the king granted, and before they parted Bard was made a baron, as his father had been,)Tj T* (and held of the king all those same grants that Brynjolf had held. Bard went home to his estate, and at)Tj T* (once became a great chief; but Hildirida’s sons got no more of the heritage than before. Bard had a son)Tj T* (by his wife; he was named Grim. Meanwhile Thorolf was with the king, and in great honour.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 527.2001 Tm (Chapter 9 - Battle in Hafr’s Firth.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 503.0001 Tm (King Harold proclaimed a general levy, and gathered a fleet, summoning his forces far and wide)Tj T* (through the land. He went out from Throndheim, and bent his course southwards, for he had heard that)Tj T* (a large host was gathered throughout Agdir, Rogaland, and Hordaland, assembled from far, both from)Tj T* (the inland parts above, and from the east out of Vik, and many great men were there met who)Tj T* (purposed to defend their land from the king. Harold held on his way from the north, with a large force,)Tj T* (having his guards on board. In the forecastle of the king’s ship were Thorolf Kveldulfsson, Bard the)Tj T* (White, Kari of Berdla’s sons, Aulvir Hnuf and Eyvind Lambi, and in the prow were twelve Berserks of)Tj T* (the king.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The fleets met south in Rogaland in Hafr’s Firth. There was fought the greatest battle that king Harold)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had had, with much slaughter in either host. The king set his own ship in the van, and there the battle)Tj T* (was most stubborn, but the end was that king Harold won the victory. Thorir Longchin, king of Agdir,)Tj T* (fell there, but Kjotvi the wealthy fled with all his men that could stand, save some that surrendered)Tj T* (after the battle. When the roll of Harold’s army was called, many were they that had fallen, and many)Tj T* (were sore wounded. Thorolf was badly wounded, Bard even worse; nor was there a man unwounded in)Tj T* (the king’s ship before the mast, except those whom iron bit not to wit the Berserks.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then the king had his men’s wounds bound up, and thanked them for their valour, and gave them gifts,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (adding most praise where he thought it most deserved. He promised them also further honour, naming)Tj T* (some to be steersmen, others forecastle men, others bow-sitters. This was the last battle king Harold)Tj T* (had within the land; after this none withstood him; he was supreme over all Norway.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king saw to the healing of his men, whose wounds gave them hope of life, as also to the burial of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the dead with all customary honours. Thorolf and Bard lay wounded. Thorolf’s wounds began to heal,)Tj T* (but Bard’s proved mortal. Then Bard had the king called to him, and spoke thus:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’If it so be that I die of these wounds, then I would ask this of thee, that I may myself name my heir.’)Tj T* (To this when the king assented, then said he:)Tj T* (’I will that Thorolf my friend and kinsman take all my heritage, both lands and chattels. To him, also,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (will I give my wife and the bringing up of my son, because I trust him for this above all men.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 28 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 30 0 obj << /Length 4189 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (This arrangement he made fast, as the law was, with the leave of the king. Then Bard died, and was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (buried, and his death was much mourned. Thorolf was healed of his wounds, and followed the king,)Tj T* (and had won great glory.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the autumn the king went north to Throndheim. Then Thorolf asked to go north to Halogaland, to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (see after those gifts which he had received in the summer from his kinsman Bard. The king gave leave)Tj T* (for this, adding a message and tokens that Thorolf should take all that Bard had given him, showing)Tj T* (that the gift was with the counsel of the king, and that he would have it so. Then the king made)Tj T* (Thorolf a baron, and granted him all the rights which Bard had had before, giving him the journey to)Tj T* (the Finns on the same terms. He also supplied to Thorolf a good long-ship, with tackling complete, and)Tj T* (had everything made ready for his journey thence in the best possible way. So Thorolf set out, and he)Tj T* (and the king parted with great affection.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Thorolf came north to Torgar, he was well received. He told them of Bard’s death; also how)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Bard had left him both lands and chattels, and her that had been his wife; then he showed the king’s)Tj T* (order and tokens. When Sigridr heard these tidings, she felt her great loss in her husband, but with)Tj T* (Thorolf she was already well acquainted, and knew him for a man of great mark; and this promise of)Tj T* (her in marriage was good, and besides there was the king’s command. So she and her friends saw it to)Tj T* (be the best plan that she should be betrothed to Thorolf, unless that were against her father’s mind.)Tj T* (Thereupon Thorolf took all the management of the property, and also the king’s business.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Soon after this Thorolf started with a long-ship and about sixty men, and coasted northwards, till one)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (day at eventide he came to Sandness in Alost; there they moored the ship. And when they had raised)Tj T* (their tent, and made arrangements, Thorolf went up to the farm buildings with twenty men. Sigurd)Tj T* (received him well, and asked him to lodge there, for there had been great intimacy between them since)Tj T* (the marriage connection between Sigurd and Bard. Then Thorolf and his men went into the hall, and)Tj T* (were there entertained. Sigurd sat and talked with Thorolf, and asked tidings. Thorolf told of the battle)Tj T* (fought that summer in the south, and of the fall of many men whom Sigurd knew well, and withal how)Tj T* (Bard his son-in-law had died of wounds received in the battle. This they both felt to be a great loss.)Tj T* (Then Thorolf told Sigurd what had been the covenant between him and Bard before he died, and he)Tj T* (declared also the orders of the king, how he would have all this hold good, and this he showed by the )Tj T* (tokens.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this Thorolf entered on his wooing with Sigurd, and asked Sigridr, his daughter, to wife. Sigurd)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (received the proposal well; he said there were many reasons for this; first, the king would have it so;)Tj T* (next, Bard had asked it; and further he himself knew Thorolf well, and thought it a good match for his)Tj T* (daughter. Thus Sigurd was easily won to grant this suit; whereupon the betrothal was made, and the)Tj T* (wedding was fixed for the autumn at Torgar.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorolf went home to his estate, and his comrades with him. There he prepared a great feast, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (bade many thereto. Of Thorolf’s kin many were present, men of renown. Sigurd also came thither)Tj T* (from the north with a long-ship and a chosen crew. Numerously attended was that feast, and it was at)Tj T* (once seen that Thorolf was free-handed and munificent. He kept about him a large following, whereof)Tj T* (the cost was great, and much provision was needed; but the year was good, and needful supplies were)Tj T* (easily found.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (During that winter Sigurd died at Sandness, and Thorolf was heir to all his property; this was great )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (wealth.)Tj ET endstream endobj 31 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 33 0 obj << /Length 4022 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now the sons of Hildirida came to Thorolf, and put in the claim which they thought they had on the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (property that had belonged to their father Bjorgolf. Thorolf answered them thus:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’This I knew of Brynjolf, and still better of Bard, that they were men so generous that they would have)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (let you have of Bjorgolf’s heritage what share they knew to be your right. I was present when ye two)Tj T* (put in this same claim on Bard, and I heard what he thought, that there was no ground for it, for he)Tj T* (called you illegitimate.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Harek said that they would bring witnesses that their mother was duly bought with payment.)Tj T* (’It is true that we did not at first treat of this matter with Brynjolf our brother it was a case of sharing)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (between kinsmen, but of Bard we hoped to get our dues in every respect, though our dealings with him)Tj T* (were not for long. Now however this heritage has come to men who are in nowise our kin, and we)Tj T* (cannot be altogether silent about our wrong; but it may be that, as before, might will so prevail that we)Tj T* (get not our right of thee in this, if thou refuse to hear the witness that we can bring to prove us)Tj T* (honourably born.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf then answered angrily:)Tj T* (’So far am I from thinking you legitimate heirs that I am told your mother was taken by force, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (carried home as a captive.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that they left talking altogether.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 432.6001 Tm (Chapter 10 - Thorolf in Finmark.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 408.4001 Tm (In the winter Thorolf took his way up to the fells with a large force of not less than ninety men,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (whereas before it had been the wont of the king’s stewards to have thirty men, and sometimes fewer.)Tj T* (He took with him plenty of wares for trading. At once he appointed a meeting with the Finns, took of)Tj T* (them the tribute, and held a fair with them. All was managed with goodwill and friendship, though not)Tj T* (without fear on the Finns’ side. Far and wide about Finmark did he travel; but when he reached the)Tj T* (fells eastward, he heard that the Kylfings were come from the east, and were there for trading with the)Tj T* (Finns, but in some places for plunder also. Thorolf set Finns to spy out the movements of the Kylfings,)Tj T* (and he followed after to search for them, and came upon thirty men in one den, all of whom he slew,)Tj T* (letting none escape. Afterwards he found together fifteen or twenty. In all they slew near upon a)Tj T* (hundred, and took immense booty, and returned in the spring after doing this.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf then went to his estates at Sandness, and remained there through the spring. He had a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (long-ship built, large, and with a dragon’s head, fitted out in the best style; this he took with him from)Tj T* (the north. Thorolf gathered great stores of what there was in Halogaland, employing his men after the)Tj T* (herrings and in other fishing; seal-hunting there was too in abundance, and egg-gathering, and all such)Tj T* (provision he had brought to him. Never had he fewer freedmen about his home than a hundred; he was)Tj T* (open-handed and liberal, and readily made friends with the great, and with all that were near him. A)Tj T* (mighty man he became, and he bestowed much care on his ships, equipment, and weapons.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 152.2002 Tm (Chapter 11 - The king feasts with Thorolf.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 128.0002 Tm (King Harold went that summer to Halogaland, and banquets were made ready against his coming, both)Tj T* (where his estates were, and also by barons and powerful landowners. Thorolf prepared a banquet for)Tj T* (the king at great cost; it was fixed for when the king should come there. To this he bade a numerous)Tj T* (company, the best men that could be found. The king had about three hundred men with him when he)Tj ET endstream endobj 34 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 36 0 obj << /Length 3914 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (came to the banquet, but Thorolf had five hundred present. Thorolf had caused a large granary to be)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (fitted up where the drinking should be, for there was no hall large enough to contain all that multitude.)Tj T* (And all around the building shields were hung.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king sate in the high seat; but when the foremost bench was filled, then the king looked round, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he turned red, but spoke not, and men thought they could see he was angry. The banquet was)Tj T* (magnificent, and all the viands of the best. The king, however, was gloomy; he remained there three)Tj T* (nights, as had been intended. On the day when the king was to leave Thorolf went to him, and offered)Tj T* (that they should go together down to the strand. The king did so, and there, moored off the land,)Tj T* (floated that dragon-ship which Thorolf had had built, with tent and tackling complete. Thorolf gave)Tj T* (the ship to the king, and prayed the king to believe that he had gathered such numbers for this end, to)Tj T* (show the king honour, and not to enter into rivalry with him. The king took Thorolf’s words well, and)Tj T* (then became merry and cheerful. Many added their good word, saying \(as was true\) that the banquet)Tj T* (was most splendid, and the farewell escort magnificent, and that the king gained much strength by)Tj T* (such men. Then they parted with much affection. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king went northwards through Halogaland as he had purposed, and returned south as summer)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (wore on. He went to yet other banquets there that were prepared for him.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 489.8 Tm (Chapter 12 - Hildirida’s sons talk with Harold.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 465.6001 Tm (Hildirida’s sons went to the king and bade him to a three nights’ banquet. The king accepted their)Tj T* (bidding, and fixed when he would come. So at the appointed time he and his train came thither. The)Tj T* (company was not numerous, but the feast went off very well, and the king was quite cheerful. Harek)Tj T* (entered into talk with the king, and their talk turned on this, that he asked about the king’s journeys in)Tj T* (those parts during the summer. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king answered his questions, and said that all had received him well, each after his means. )Tj T* (’Great will have been the difference,’ said Harek, ’and at Torgar the company at the banquet will have)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (been the most numerous.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king said that it was so.)Tj T* (Harek said: ’That was to be looked for, because on that banquet most was spent; and thou, O king,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (hadst great luck in matters so turning out that thy life was not endangered. The end was as was likely;)Tj T* (thou wert very wise and very fortunate; for thou at once suspectedst all was not for good on seeing the)Tj T* (numerous company there gathered; but \(as I am told\) thou madest all thy men remain armed constantly)Tj T* (and keep watch and ward night and day.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king looked at him and said: ’Why speakest thou thus, Harek? What canst thou tell of this?’)Tj T* (Harek answered: ’May I speak with permission what I please?’)Tj T* (’Speak,’ said the king.)Tj T* (’This I judge,’ said Harek, ’that thou wouldst not deem it to be well, if thou, O king, heardest every)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (one’s words, what men say when speaking their minds freely at home, how they think that it is a)Tj T* (tyranny thou exercisest over all people. But the plain truth is, O king, that to rise against thee the)Tj T* (people lack nothing but boldness and a leader. Nor is it wonderful in a man like Thorolf that he thinks)Tj T* (himself above everyone; he wants not for strength and comeliness; he keeps a guard round him like a)Tj T* (king; he has wealth in plenty, even though he had but what is truly his, but besides that he holds)Tj ET endstream endobj 37 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 41 0 obj << /Length 4555 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (others’ property equally at his disposal with his own. Thou, too, hast bestowed on him large grants,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and he had now made all ready to repay them with ill. For this is the truth that I tell thee: when it was)Tj T* (learnt that thou wert coming north to Halogaland with no more force than three hundred men, the)Tj T* (counsel of people here was that an army should assemble and take thy life, O king, and the lives of all)Tj T* (thy force. And Thorolf was head of these counsels, and it was offered him that he should be king over)Tj T* (the Halogalanders and Naumdalesmen. Then he went in and out of each firth and round all the islands,)Tj T* (and got together every man he could find and every weapon, and it was no secret that this army was to)Tj T* (muster for battle against king Harold. But the truth is, O king, that though thou hadst somewhat less)Tj T* (force than those who met thee, yet the farmer folk took flight when they saw thy fleet. Then this)Tj T* (counsel was adopted, to meet thee with friendly show and bid thee to a banquet: but it was intended,)Tj T* (when thou wert well drunk and lying asleep, to attack thee with fire and weapon. And here is a proof)Tj T* (whether I am rightly informed; ye were led into a granary because Thorolf was loth to burn up his new)Tj T* (and beautiful hall; and a further proof is that every room was full of weapons and armour. But when all)Tj T* (their devices against thee miscarried, then they chose the best course they could; they hushed up their)Tj T* (former purpose. And I doubt not that all may deny this counsel, because few, methinks, know)Tj T* (themselves guiltless, were the truth to come out. Now this is my counsel, O king, that thou keep)Tj T* (Thorolf near thee, and let him be in thy guard, and bear thy standard, and be in the forecastle of thy)Tj T* (ship; for this duty no man is fitter. Or if thou wilt have him to be a baron, then give him a grant)Tj T* (southwards in the Firths, where are all his family: thou mayest then keep an eye on him, that he make)Tj T* (not himself too great for thee. But the business here in Halogaland put thou into the hands of men who)Tj T* (are moderate and will serve thee faithfully, and have kinsfolk here, men whose relatives have had the)Tj T* (same work here before. We two brothers are ready and willing for such service as thou wilt use us in;)Tj T* (our father long had the king’s business here, and it prospered in his hands. It is difficult, O king, to)Tj T* (place men as managers here, because thou wilt seldom come hither thyself. The strength of the land is)Tj T* (too little to need thy coming with an army, yet thou must not come hither again with few followers, for)Tj T* (there are here many disloyal people.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king was very angry at these words, but he spoke quietly, as was always his wont when he heard)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (tidings of great import. He asked whether Thorolf were at home at Torgar. Harek said this was not )Tj T* (likely.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Thorolf,’ said he, ’is too wise to be in the way of thy followers, O king, for he must guess that all will)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (not be so close but thou wilt get to know these things. He went north to Alost as soon as he heard that)Tj T* (thou wert on thy way south.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king spoke little about this matter before other men; but it was easy to see that he inclined to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (believe the words that had been spoken.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this the king went his way, Hildirida’s sons giving him honourable escort with gifts at parting,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (while he promised them his friendship. The brothers made themselves an errand into Naumdale, and)Tj T* (so went round about as to cross the king’s path now and again; he always received their words well.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 190.6002 Tm (Chapter 13 - Thorgils goes to the king.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 166.4001 Tm (There was a man named Thorgils Yeller, a house-carle of Thorolf’s, honoured above all the rest of his)Tj T* (household; he had followed Thorolf in his roving voyages as fore-castle man and standard-bearer. He)Tj T* (had been in Hafr’s Firth, in the fleet of king Harold, and was then steering the very ship that Thorolf)Tj T* (had used in his roving. Thorgils was strong of body and right bold of heart; the king had bestowed on)Tj T* (him friendly gifts after the battle, and promised him his friendship. Thorgils was manager at Torgar,)Tj T* (and bore rule there when Thorolf was not at home. )Tj ET endstream endobj 42 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 44 0 obj << /Length 3970 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Before Thorolf went away this time he had counted over all the king’s tribute that he had brought from)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the fells, and he put it in Thorgils’ hand, bidding him convey it to the king, if he himself came not)Tj T* (home before the king returned south. So Thorgils made ready a large ship of burden belonging to)Tj T* (Thorolf, and put the tribute on board, and taking about twenty men sailed southward after the king, and)Tj T* (found him in Naumdale. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Thorgils met the king he gave him greeting from Thorolf, and said that he was come thither)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with the Finns’ tribute sent by Thorolf. The king looked at him, but answered never a word, and all)Tj T* (saw that he was angry. Thorgils then went away, thinking to find a better time to speak with the king;)Tj T* (he sought Aulvir Hnuf, and told him what had passed, and asked him if he knew what was the matter.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’That do I not,’ said he; ’but this I have marked, that, since we were at Leka, the king is silent every)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (time Thorolf is mentioned, and I suspect he has been slandered. This I know of Hildirida’s sons, that)Tj T* (they were long in conference with the king, and it is easy to see from their words that they are)Tj T* (Thorolf’s enemies. But I will soon be certain about this from the king himself.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereupon Aulvir went to the king, and said: ’Here is come Thorgils Yeller thy friend, with the tribute)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (which is thine; and the tribute is much larger than it has been before, and far better wares. He is eager)Tj T* (to be on his way; be so good, O king, as to go and see it; for never have been seen such good gray )Tj T* (furs.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king answered not, but he went to where the ship lay. Thorgils at once set forth the furs and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (showed them to the king. And when the king saw that it was true, that the tribute was much larger and)Tj T* (better, his brows somewhat cleared, and Thorgils got speech with him. He brought the king some)Tj T* (bearskins which Thorolf sent him, and other valuables besides, which he had gotten upon the fells. So)Tj T* (the king brightened up, and asked tidings of the journey of Thorolf and his company. Thorgils told it)Tj T* (all in detail.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then said the king: ’Great pity is it Thorolf should be unfaithful to me and plot my death.’)Tj T* (Then answered many who stood by, and all with one mind, that it was a slander of wicked men if such)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (words had been spoken, and Thorolf would be found guiltless. The king said he would prefer to)Tj T* (believe this. Then was the king cheerful in all his talk with Thorgils, and they parted friends. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Thorgils met Thorolf he told him all that had happened.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 276.4001 Tm (Chapter 14 - Thorolf again in Finmark.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 252.2001 Tm (That winter Thorolf went again to Finmark, taking with him about a hundred men. As before, he held a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (fair with the Finns, and travelled far and wide over Finmark. But when he reached the far east, and his)Tj T* (coming was heard of, then came to him some Kvens, saying that they were sent by Faravid, king of)Tj T* (Kvenland, because the Kiriales were harrying his land; and his message was that Thorolf should go)Tj T* (thither and bear him help; and further that Thorolf should have a share of the booty equal to the king’s)Tj T* (share, and each of his men as much as two Kvens. With the Kvens the law was that the king should)Tj T* (have one-third as compared with his men when the booty was shared, and beyond that, as reserved for)Tj T* (him, all bearskins and sables. Thorolf put this proposal before his men, giving them the choice to go or)Tj T* (not; and the more part chose to venture it, as the prize was so great. This is was decided that they)Tj T* (should go eastwards with the messengers.)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 3668 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Finmark is a wide tract; it is bounded westwards by the sea, wherefrom large firths run in; by sea also)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (northwards and round to the east; but southwards lies Norway; and Finmark stretches along nearly all)Tj T* (the inland region to the south, as also does Halogaland outside. But eastwards from Naumdale is)Tj T* (Jamtaland, then Helsingjaland and Kvenland, then Finland, then Kirialaland; along all these lands to)Tj T* (the north lies Finmark, and there are wide inhabited fell-districts, some in dales, some by lakes. The)Tj T* (lakes of Finmark are wonderfully large, and by the lakes there are extensive forests. But high fells lie)Tj T* (behind from end to end of the Mark, and this ridge is called Keels.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Thorolf came to Kvenland and met king Faravid, they made them ready for their march,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (being three hundred of the kings men and a fourth hundred Norsemen. And they went by the upper)Tj T* (way over Finmark, and came where the Kiriales were on the fell, the same who had before harried the)Tj T* (Kvens. These, when they were aware of the enemy, gathered themselves and advanced to meet them,)Tj T* (expecting victory as heretofore. But, on the battle being joined, the Norsemen charged furiously)Tj T* (forwards, bearing shields stronger than those of the Kvens; the slaughter turned to be in the Kiriales’)Tj T* (ranks many fell, some fled. King Faravid and Thorolf took there immense wealth of spoil, and)Tj T* (returned to Kvenland, whence afterwards Thorolf and his men came to Finmark, he and Faravid)Tj T* (parting in friendship.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf came down from the fell to Vefsnir; then went first to his farm at Sandness, stayed there)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (awhile, and in spring went with his men north to Torgar.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when he came there, it was told him how Hildirida’s sons had been that winter at Throndheim)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with king Harold, and that they would not spare to slander Thorolf with the king; and it was much)Tj T* (questioned what grounds they had had for their slander. Thorolf answered thus: ’The king will not)Tj T* (believe this, though such lies be laid before him; for there are no grounds for my turning traitor to him,)Tj T* (when he has done me much good and no evil. And so far from wishing to do him harm \(though I had)Tj T* (the choice\), I would much rather be a baron of his than be called king, when some other)Tj T* (fellow-countrymen might rise and make me his thrall.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 360 Tm (Chapter 15 - King Harold and Harek.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 335.8 Tm (Hildirida’s sons had been that winter with king Harold, and in their company twelve men of their own)Tj T* (household and neighbours. The brothers were often talking with the king, and they still spoke in the)Tj T* (same way of Thorolf. Harek asked: ’Didst thou like well, O king, the Finns’ tribute which Thorolf sent )Tj T* (thee?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I did,’ said the king.)Tj T* (’Then wouldst thou have been surprised,’ said he, ’if thou hadst received all that belonged to thee! But)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (it was far from being so; Thorolf kept for himself the larger share. He sent thee three bearskins, but I)Tj T* (know for certain that he kept back thirty that were by right thine; and I guess it was the same with)Tj T* (other things. This will prove true, O king, that, if thou put the stewardship into the hand of myself and)Tj T* (my brother, we shall bring thee more wealth.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And to all that they said about Thorolf their comrades bore witness, wherefore the king was exceeding )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (angry.)Tj ET endstream endobj 48 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 50 0 obj << /Length 3719 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 16 - Thorolf and the king.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (In the summer Thorolf went south to king Harold at Throndheim, taking with him all the tribute and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (much wealth besides, and ninety men well arrayed. When he came to the king, he and his were placed)Tj T* (in the guest-hall and entertained magnificently.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (On the morrow Aulvir Hnuf went to his kinsman Thorolf; they talked together, Aulvir saying that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorolf was much slandered, and the king gave ear to such tales. Thorolf asked Aulvir to plead his)Tj T* (cause with the king, ’for,’ said he, ’I shall be short-spoken before the king if he choose rather to)Tj T* (believe the lies of wicked men than truth and honesty which he will find in me.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The next day Aulvir came to see Thorolf, and told him he had spoken on his business with the king;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’but,’ said he, ’I know no more than before what is in his mind.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Then must I myself go to him,’ said Thorolf.)Tj T* (He did so; he went to the king where he sat at meat, and when he came in he greeted the king. The)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king accepted his greeting, and bade them serve him with drink. Thorolf said that he had there the)Tj T* (tribute belonging to the king from Finmark; ’and yet a further portion of booty have I brought as a)Tj T* (present to thee, O king. And what I bring will, I know, owe all its worth to this, that it is given out of)Tj T* (gratitude to thee.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king said that he could expect nought but good from Thorolf, ’because,’ said he, ’I deserve nought)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (else; yet men tell two tales of thee as to thy being careful to win my approval.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I am not herein justly charged,’ said Thorolf, ’if any say I have shown disloyalty to thee. This I think,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and with truth: That they who speak such lying slanders of me will prove to be in nowise thy friends,)Tj T* (but it is quite clear that they are my bitter enemies; ’tis likely, however, that they will pay dearly for it)Tj T* (if we come to deal together.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorolf went away.)Tj T* (But on the morrow Thorolf counted out the tribute in the king’s presence; and when it was all paid, he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (then brought out some bearskins and sables, which he begged the king to accept. Many of the)Tj T* (bystanders said that this was well done and deserved friendship. The king said that Thorolf had)Tj T* (himself taken his own reward. Thorolf said that he had loyally done all he could to please the king.)Tj T* (’But if he likes it not,’ said he, ’I cannot help it: the king knows, when I was with him and in his train,)Tj T* (how I bore myself; it is wonderful to me if the king thinks me other now than he proved me to be )Tj T* (then.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king answered: ’Thou didst bear thyself well, Thorolf, when thou wert with us; and this, I think, is)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (best to do still, that thou join my guard, bear my banner, be captain over the guard; then will no man)Tj T* (slander thee, if I can oversee night and day what thy conduct is.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf looked on either hand where stood his house-carles; then said he: ’Loth were I to deliver up)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (these my followers: about thy titles and grants to me, O king, thou wilt have thine own way, but my)Tj T* (following I will not deliver up while my means last, though I manage at my own sole cost. My request)Tj T* (and wish, O king, is this, that thou come and visit me at my home, and the hear word of men whom)Tj T* (thou trustest, what witness they bear to me in this matter; thereafter do as thou findest proof to )Tj T* (warrant.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 51 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 53 0 obj << /Length 3950 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The king answered and said that he would not again accept entertainment from Thorolf; so Thorolf)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (went out, and made ready to return home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when he was gone, the king put into the hands of Hildirida’s sons his business in Halogaland)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (which Thorolf had before had, as also the Finmark journey. The king claimed ownership of the estate)Tj T* (at Torgar, and of all the property that Brynjolf had had; and all this he gave into the keeping of)Tj T* (Hildirida’s sons. The king sent messengers with tokens to Thorolf to tell him of this arrangement,)Tj T* (whereupon Thorolf took the ships belonging to him, put on board all the chattels he could carry, and)Tj T* (with all his men, both freedmen and thralls, sailed northwards to his farm at Sandness, where he kept)Tj T* (up no fewer and no less state than before.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 593.2001 Tm (Chapter 17 - Hildirida’s sons in Finmark and at Harold’s )Tj T* (court.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 548.6001 Tm (Hildirida’s sons took the business in Halogaland; and none gainsaid this because of the king’s power,)Tj T* (but Thorolf’s kinsmen and friends were much displeased at the change. The two brothers went on the)Tj T* (fell in the winter, taking with them thirty men. To the Finns there seemed much less honour in these)Tj T* (stewards than when Thorolf came, and the money due was far worse paid.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That same winter Thorolf went up on the fell with a hundred men; he passed on at once eastwards to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Kvenland and met king Faravid. They took counsel together, and resolved to go on the fell again as in)Tj T* (the winter before; and with four hundred men they made a descent on Kirialaland, and attacked those)Tj T* (districts for which they thought themselves a match in numbers, and harrying there took much booty,)Tj T* (returning up to Finmark as the winter wore on. In the spring Thorolf went home to his farm, and then)Tj T* (employed his men at the fishing in Vagar, and some in herring-fishing, and had the take of every kind)Tj T* (brought to his farm.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf had a large ship, which was waiting to put to sea. It was elaborate in everything, beautifully)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (painted down to the sea-line, the sails also carefully striped with blue and red, and all the tackling as)Tj T* (elaborate as the ship. Thorolf had this ship made ready, and put aboard some of his house-carles as)Tj T* (crew; he freighted it with dried fish and hides, and ermine and gray furs too in abundance, and other)Tj T* (peltry such as he had gotten from the fell; it was a most valuable cargo. This ship he bade sail)Tj T* (westwards for England to buy him clothes and other supplies that he needed; and they, first steering)Tj T* (southwards along the coast, then stretching across the main, came to England. There they found a good)Tj T* (market, laded the ship with wheat and honey and wine and clothes, and sailing back in autumn with a)Tj T* (fair wind came to Hordaland. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That same autumn Hildirida’s sons carried tribute to the king. But when they paid it the king himself)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was present and saw. He said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Is this tribute now paid all that ye took in Finmark?’)Tj T* (’It is,’ they answered.)Tj T* (’Less by far,’ said the king, ’and much worse paid is the tribute now than when Thorolf gathered it; yet)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (ye said that he managed the business ill.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’It is well, O king,’ said Harek, ’that thou hast considered how large a tribute should usually come)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (from Finmark, because thus thou knowest how much thou losest, if Thorolf waste all the tribute before)Tj T* (thee. Last winter we were in Finmark with thirty men, as has been the wont of thy stewards heretofore.)Tj T* (Soon after came Thorolf with a hundred men, and we learnt this, that he meant to take the lives of us)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 4505 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (two brothers and all our followers, his reason being that thou, O king, hadst handed over to us the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (business that he wished to have. It was then our best choice to shun meeting him, and to save)Tj T* (ourselves: therefore we quickly left the settled districts, and went on the fell. But Thorolf went all)Tj T* (round Finmark with his armed warriors; he had all the trade, the Finns paid him tribute, and he)Tj T* (hindered thy stewards from entering Finmark. He means to be made king over the north there, both)Tj T* (over Finmark and Halogaland: and the wonder is that thou wilt listen to him in anything whatever.)Tj T* (Herein may true evidence be found of Thorolf’s ill-gotten gains from Finmark; for the largest)Tj T* (merchant ship in Halogaland was made ready for sea at Sandness in the spring, and all the cargo on)Tj T* (board was said to be Thorolf’s. It was laden mostly, I think, with gray furs, but there would be found)Tj T* (there also bearskins and sables more than Thorolf brought to thee. And with that ship went Thorgils)Tj T* (Yeller, and I believe he sailed westwards for England. But if thou wilt know the truth of this, set spies)Tj T* (on the track of Thorgils when he comes eastwards; for I fancy that no trading-ship in our days has)Tj T* (carried such store of wealth. And I am telling thee what is true, O king, when I say that to thee belongs)Tj T* (every penny on board.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (All that Harek said his companions confirmed, and none there ventured to gainsay.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 514.0001 Tm (Chapter 18 - Thorolf’s ship is taken.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 489.8 Tm (There were two brothers named Sigtrygg Swiftfarer and Hallvard Hardfarer, kinsmen of king Harold)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (on the mother’s side; from their father, a wealthy man, they had inherited an estate in Hising. Four)Tj T* (brothers there were in all; but Thord and Thorgeir, the two younger, were at home, and managed the)Tj T* (estate. Sigtrygg and Hallvard carried all the king’s messages, both within and without the land, and)Tj T* (had gone on many dangerous journeys, both for putting men out of the way and confiscating the goods)Tj T* (of those whose homes the king ordered to be attacked. They kept about them a large following; they)Tj T* (were not generally in favour, but the king prized them highly. None could match them at travelling,)Tj T* (either on foot or on snow-shoes; in voyaging also they were speedier than others, valiant men they)Tj T* (were, and very wary.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (These two men were with the king when those things happened that have just been told. In the autumn)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the king went to a banquet in Hordaland. And one day he summoned to him the brothers Hallvard and)Tj T* (Sigtrygg, and when they came he bade them go with their following and spy after the ship which)Tj T* (Thorgils had taken westward to England in the summer.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Bring me,’ said he, ’the ship and all that is in it, except the men; let them go their way in peace, if)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they do not try to defend the ship.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The brothers made them ready for this, and, taking each one his long-ship, went to seek Thorgils, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (learnt that he was come from the west, and had sailed northwards along the coast. Northwards after)Tj T* (him went they, and found him in Fir Sound. They knew the ship at once, and laid one of their ships on)Tj T* (the seaward side of her, while some of them landed, and thence went out on to the ship by the)Tj T* (gangways. Thorgils’ crew, apprehending no danger, made no defence; they found out nothing till)Tj T* (many armed men were aboard, and so they were all seized, and afterwards put on shore weaponless,)Tj T* (with nothing but the clothes they wore. But Hallvard’s men drew out the gangways, loosed the cables,)Tj T* (and towed out the ship; then turned them about, and sailed southwards along the coast till they met the)Tj T* (king, to whom they brought the ship and all that was in it. And when the cargo was unloaded, the king)Tj T* (saw that it was great wealth, and what Harek had said was no lie.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But Thorgils and his comrades got conveyance, and went to Kveldulf and his son, and told of the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (misadventure of their voyage, yet were they well received. Kveldulf said all was tending to what he)Tj T* (had foreboded, that Thorolf would not in the end have good luck in his friendship with king Harold.)Tj ET endstream endobj 57 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 59 0 obj << /Length 4463 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (’And I care little,’ said he, ’for Thorolf’s money loss in this, if worse does not come after; but I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (misdoubt, as before, that Thorolf will not rightly rate his own means against the stronger power with)Tj T* (which he has to deal.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And he bade Thorgils say this to Thorolf:)Tj T* (’My counsel is that you go away out of the land, for maybe you will do better for yourself if you serve)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (under the king of England, or of Denmark, or of Sweden.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then he gave Thorgils a rowing-cutter with tackling complete, a tent also, and provisions, and all)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (things needful for their journey. So they departed, and stayed not their journey till they came to)Tj T* (Thorolf and told him all that had happened.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf took his loss cheerfully, and said that he should not be short of money; ’’tis good,’ said he, ’to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (be in partnership with a king.’ He then bought meal and all that he needed for the maintenance of his)Tj T* (people; his house-carles must for awhile, he said, be less bravely attired than he had purposed. Some)Tj T* (lands he sold, some he mortgaged, but he kept up all expenses as before; he had no fewer men with)Tj T* (him than last winter, nay, rather more. And as to feasts and friends entertained at his house, he had)Tj T* (more means for all this than before. He stayed at home all that winter.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 481 Tm (Chapter 19 - Thorolf retaliates.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 456.8 Tm (When spring came, and the snow and ice were loosed, then Thorolf launched a large warship of his)Tj T* (own, and he had it made ready, and equipped his house-carles, taking with him more than a hundred)Tj T* (men; and a goodly company there were, and well weaponed. And when a fair wind blew, Thorolf)Tj T* (steered southwards along the coast till he came to Byrda; then they held an outer course outside the)Tj T* (islands, but at times through channels between hill-slopes. Thus they coasted on southwards, and had)Tj T* (no tidings of men till they came eastwards to Vik. There they heard that king Harold was in Vik,)Tj T* (meaning in the summer to go into Upland. The people of the country knew nothing of Thorolf’s)Tj T* (voyage. With a fair wind he held on south to Denmark, and thence into the Baltic, where he harried)Tj T* (through that summer, but got no good booty. In the autumn he steered back from the east to Denmark,)Tj T* (at the time when the fleet at Eyrar was breaking up. In the summer there had been, as was usual, many)Tj T* (ships from Norway. Thorolf let all these vessels sail past, and did not show himself. One day at)Tj T* (eventide he sailed into Mostrarsound , where in the haven was a large ship of burden that had come)Tj T* (from Eyrar. The steersman was named Thorir Thruma; he was a steward of king Harold’s, manager of)Tj T* (his farm at Thruma, a large farm in which the king used to make a long stay when he was in Vik.)Tj T* (Much provision was needed for this farm, and Thorir had gone to Eyrar for this, to buy a cargo, malt,)Tj T* (wheat, and honey; and much wealth of the king’s had he for that end. Thorolf made for this ship, and)Tj T* (offered Thorir and his crew the choice to defend themselves, but, as they had no force to make defence)Tj T* (against such numbers, they yielded. The ship with all its freight Thorolf took, but Thorir he put out on)Tj T* (an island. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then he sailed northwards along the coast with both the ships; but when they came to the mouth of the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Elbe, they lay there and waited for night. And when it was dark, they rowed their long-ship up the)Tj T* (river and stood in for the farm-buildings belonging to Hallvard and Sigtrygg. They came there before)Tj T* (daybreak, and formed a ring of men round the place, then raised a war-whoop and wakened those)Tj T* (within, who quickly leapt up to their weapons. Thorgeir at once fled from his bedchamber. Round the)Tj T* (farmhouse were high wooden palings: at these Thorgeir leapt, grasping with his hand the stakes, and)Tj T* (so swung himself out of the yard. Thorgils Yeller was standing near; he made a sweep with his sword)Tj T* (at Thorgeir, and cut off his hand along with the fence-stake. Then Thorgeir escaped to the wood, but)Tj T* (Thord, his brother, fell slain there, and more than twenty men. Thorolf’s band plundered and burnt the)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 4156 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (house, then went back down the river to the sea.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (With a fair wind they sailed north to Vik; there again they fell in with a large merchant-ship belonging)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to men of Vik, laden with malt and meal. For this ship they made; but those on board, deeming they)Tj T* (had no means of defence, yielded, and were disarmed and put on shore, and Thorolf’s men, taking the)Tj T* (ship and its cargo, went on their way.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf had now three ships, with which he sailed westwards by Fold. Then they took the high road of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the sea to Lidandisness, going with all despatch, but making raid and lifting cattle on ness and shore.)Tj T* (Northwards from Lidandisness they held a course further out, but pillaged wherever they touched land.)Tj T* (But when Thorolf came over against the Firths, then he turned his course inward, and went to see his)Tj T* (father Kveldulf, and there they were made welcome. Thorolf told his father what had happened in his)Tj T* (summer voyage; he stayed there but a short time, and Kveldulf and his son Grim accompanied him to)Tj T* (the ship.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But before they parted Thorolf and his father talked together, and Kveldulf said: ’I was not far wrong,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorolf, in telling thee, when thou wentest to join king Harold’s guard, that neither thou nor we thy)Tj T* (kindred would in the long run get good-fortune therefrom. Now thou hast taken up the very counsel)Tj T* (against which I warned thee; thou matchest thy force against king Harold’s. But though thou art well)Tj T* (endowed with valour and all prowess, thou hast not luck enough for this, to play on even terms with)Tj T* (the king - a thing wherein no one here in the land has succeeded, though others have had great power)Tj T* (and large force of men. And my foreboding is that this is our last meeting: it were in the course of)Tj T* (nature from our ages that thou shouldst overlive me, but I think it will be otherwise.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this Thorolf embarked and went his way. And no tidings are told of his voyage till he arrived)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (home at Sandness, and caused to be conveyed to his farm all the booty he had taken, and had his ship)Tj T* (set up upon land. There was now no lack of provision to keep his people through the winter. Thorolf)Tj T* (stayed on at home with no fewer men than in the winter before.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 362.2002 Tm (Chapter 20 - Skallagrim’s marriage.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 338.0002 Tm (There was a man named Yngvar, powerful and wealthy. He had been a baron of the former kings. But)Tj T* (after Harold came to the throne, Yngvar sat at home and served not the king. Yngvar was married and)Tj T* (had a daughter named Bera. Yngvar dwelt in the Firths. Bera was his only child and heiress. Grim)Tj T* (Kveldulf’s son asked Bera to wife, and the match was arranged. Grim took Bera in the winter)Tj T* (following the summer when Thorolf had parted from him and his father.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Grim was then twenty-five years old, and was now bald, wherefore he was henceforth called)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Skallagrim. He had then the management of all the farms belonging to his father and himself and of all)Tj T* (the produce, though Kveldulf was yet a hale and strong man. They had many freedmen about them,)Tj T* (and many men who had grown up there at home and were about Skallagrim’s equals in age. Men of)Tj T* (prowess and strength they were mostly, for both father and son chose strong fellows to be their)Tj T* (followers, and trained them after their mind. Skallagrim was like his father in stature and strength, as)Tj T* (also in face and temper.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 147.8002 Tm (Chapter 21 - Hallvard and his brother go after Thorolf.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 123.6002 Tm (King Harold was in Vik while Thorolf was harrying, and in the autumn he went to Upland, and thence)Tj T* (northward to Throndheim, where he stayed through the winter with a large force. Sigtrygg and)Tj T* (Hallvard were with him: they had heard what Thorolf had done at their house on Hising, what scathe)Tj ET endstream endobj 63 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 65 0 obj << /Length 3731 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (he had wrought on men and property. They often reminded the king of this, and withal how Thorolf)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had plundered the king and his subjects, and had gone about harrying within the land. They begged the)Tj T* (king’s leave that they two brothers might go with their usual following and attack Thorolf in his home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king answered thus: ’Ye may think ye have good cause for taking Thorolf’s life, but I doubt your)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (fortune falls far short of this work. Thorolf is more than your match, brave and doughty as ye may)Tj T* (deem yourselves.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The brothers said that his would be put to the proof, if the king would grant them leave; they had often)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (run great risk against men on whom they had less to avenge, and generally they had won the day.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when spring came, and men made ready to go their several ways, then did Hallvard and his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brother again urge their request that they might go and take Thorolf’s life. So the king gave them)Tj T* (leave. ’And I know,’ he said, ’ye will bring me his head and many costly things withal when ye come)Tj T* (back; yet some do guess that if ye sail north ye will both sail and row south.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They made them ready with all speed, taking two ships and two hundred men; and when they were)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (ready they sailed with a north-east wind out of the firth, but that is a head-wind for those coasting )Tj T* (northward.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 481.0001 Tm (Chapter 22 - Death of Thorolf Kveldulfsson.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 456.8001 Tm (King Harold was at Hlada when the brothers went away. Immediately after this the king made him)Tj T* (ready with all haste, and embarked his force on four ships, and they rowed up the firth, and so by)Tj T* (Beitis-sea inwards to the isthmus of Elda. There he left his ships behind, and crossed the isthmus)Tj T* (northwards to Naumdale. The king there took ships belonging to the landowners, and embarked his)Tj T* (force on them, having with him his guard; four hundred men they were. Six ships he had well)Tj T* (equipped both with weapons and men. They encountered a fresh head-wind, and rowed night and day,)Tj T* (making what progress they could. The night was then light enough for travel.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (On the evening of a day after sunset they came to Sandness, and saw lying there opposite the farm a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (long-ship with tent spread, which they knew to be Thorolf’s. He was even then purposing to sail away,)Tj T* (and had bidden them brew the ale for their parting carousal. The king ordered his men to disembark)Tj T* (and his standard to be raised. It was but a short way to the farm buildings.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf’s watchmen sate within drinking, and were not gone to their posts; not a man was without; all)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sate within drinking. The king had a ring of men set round the hall: they then shouted a war-whoop,)Tj T* (and a war-blast was blown on the king’s trumpet. On hearing which Thorolf’s men sprang to their)Tj T* (weapons, for each man’s weapons hung above his seat. The king caused some to make proclamation at)Tj T* (the door, bidding women, children, old men, thralls, and bondmen to come out. Then came out Sigridr)Tj T* (the mistress, and with her the women that were within, and the others to whom permission was given.)Tj T* (Sigridr asked if the sons of Kari of Berdla were there. They both came forward and asked what she)Tj T* (would of them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Lead me to the king,’ said she.)Tj T* (They did so. But when she came to the king, she said: ’Will anything, my lord, avail to reconcile thee)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with Thorolf?’)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 4272 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The king answered, ’If Thorolf will yield him to my mercy, then shall he have life and limb, but his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (men shall undergo punishment according to the charges against them.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Upon this Aulvir Hnuf went to the room, and had Thorolf called to speak with him, and told him what)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (terms the king offered them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf answered that he would not take of the king compulsory terms or reconciliation. ’Bid thou the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king allow us to go out, and then leave we things to go their own course.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king said: ’Set fire to the room; I will not waste my men by doing battle with him outside; I know)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that Thorolf will work us great man-scathe if he come out, though he has fewer men than we.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So fire was set to the room, and it soon caught, because the wood was dry and the walls tarred and the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (roof thatched with birch-bark. Thorolf bade his men break up the wainscoting and get gable-beams,)Tj T* (and so burst through the planking; and when they got the beams, then as many men as could hold on to)Tj T* (it took one beam, and they rammed at the corner with the other beam-end so hard that the clasps flew)Tj T* (out, and the walls started asunder, and there was a wide outlet.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (First went out Thorolf, then Thorgils Yeller, then the rest one after another. Fierce then was the fight;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (nor for awhile could it be seen which had the better of it, for the room guarded the rear of Thorolf’s)Tj T* (force. The king lost many men before the room began to burn; then the fire attacked Thorolf’s side,)Tj T* (and many of them fell. Now Thorolf bounded forwards and hewed on either hand; small need to bind)Tj T* (the wounds of those who encountered him. He made for where the king’s standard was, and at this)Tj T* (moment fell Thorgils Yeller. But when Thorolf reached the shield-wall, he pierced with a stroke the)Tj T* (standard-bearer, crying, ’Now am I but three feet short of my aim.’ Then bore at him both sword and)Tj T* (spear; but the king himself dealt him his death-wound, and he fell forward at the king’s feet. The king)Tj T* (called out then, and bade them cease further slaughter; and they did so.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this the king bade his men go down to the ships. To Aulvir Hnuf and his brother he said:)Tj T* (’Take ye Thorolf your kinsman and give him honourable burial; bury also the other men who have)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (fallen, and see to the binding of the wounds of those who have hope of life; but let none plunder here,)Tj T* (for all this is my property.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (This said, the king went down to his ships, and most of his force with him; and when they were come)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (on board men began to bind their wounds. The king went round the ship and looked at men’s wounds;)Tj T* (and when he saw a man binding a surface-wound, he said: ’Thorolf gave not that wound; his weapon)Tj T* (bites far otherwise; few, methinks, bind the wounds which he gave; and great loss have we in such )Tj T* (men.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (As soon as day dawned the king had his sail hoisted, and sailed south as fast as he could. As the day)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (wore on, they came upon many rowing-vessels in all the sounds between the islands; the forces on)Tj T* (board them had meant to join Thorolf, for spies of his had been southwards as far as Naumdale, and)Tj T* (far and wide about the islands. These had got to know how Hallvard and his brother were come from)Tj T* (the south with a large force meaning to attack Thorolf. Hallvard’s company had constantly met a)Tj T* (head-wind, and had waited about in various havens till news of them had gone the upper way)Tj T* (overland, and Thorolf’s spies had become aware of it, and this gathering of force was on this account.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king sailed before a strong wind till he came to Naumdale; there he left the ships behind, and went)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (by land to Throndheim, where he took his own ships that he had left there, and thence stood out to)Tj T* (Hlada. These tidings were soon heard, and reached Hallvard and his men where they lay. They then)Tj T* (returned to the king, and their voyage was much mocked at.)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 3717 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The brothers Aulvir Hnuf and Eyvind Lambi remained awhile at Sandness and saw to the burial of the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (slain. To Thorolf’s body they gave all the customary honours paid at the burial of a man of wealth and)Tj T* (renown, and set over him a memorial stone. They saw also to the healing of the wounded. They)Tj T* (arranged also the house with Sigridr; all the stock remained, but most of the house-furniture and)Tj T* (table-service and clothing was burnt. And when this was done, they went south and came to king)Tj T* (Harold at Throndheim, and were with him for awhile.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They were sad, and spoke little with others. And it was so that one day the brothers went before the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king, and Aulvir said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’This permission we brothers claim of thee, O king, that we go home to our farms; for such things)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (have happened here that we have no heart to share drink and seat with those who drew weapon on our)Tj T* (kinsman Thorolf.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king looked at them, and answered curtly:)Tj T* (’I will not grant you this; ye shall be here with me.’)Tj T* (They went back to their place.)Tj T* (Next day, as the king sat in the audience hall, he had the brothers called to him, and said:)Tj T* (’Now shall ye know of that your business which ye began with me, craving to go home. Ye have been)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (some while here with me, and have borne you well, and always done your duty. I have thought well of)Tj T* (you in everything. Now will I, Eyvind, that thou go north to Halogaland. I will give thee in marriage)Tj T* (Sigridr of Sandness, her that Thorolf had to wife; and I will bestow on thee all the wealth that)Tj T* (belonged to Thorolf; thou shalt also have my friendship if thou canst keep it. But Aulvir shall remain)Tj T* (with me; for his skill as skald I cannot spare him.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The brothers thanked the king for the honour granted to them, and said that they would willingly)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (accept it.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Eyvind made him ready for the journey, getting a good and suitable ship. The king gave him)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (tokens for this matter. His voyage sped well, and he came north to Alost and Sandness. Sigridr)Tj T* (welcomed him; and Eyvind then showed her the king’s tokens and declared his errand, and asked her)Tj T* (in marriage, saying that it was the king’s message that he should obtain this match. But Sigridr saw)Tj T* (that her only choice, as things had gone, was to let the king rule it. So the arrangement was made, and)Tj T* (Eyvind married Sigridr, receiving with her the farm at Sandness and all the property that had been)Tj T* (Thorolf’s. Thus Eyvind was a wealthy man.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The children of Eyvind and Sigridr were Fid Squinter, father of Eyvind Skald-spoiler, and Geirlaug,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (whom Sighvat Red had to wife. Fid Squinter married Gunnhilda, daughter of earl Halfdan. Her mother)Tj T* (was Ingibjorg, daughter of king Harold Fairhair. Eyvind Lambi kept the king’s friendship so long as)Tj T* (they both lived.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 164.2003 Tm (Chapter 23 - The slaying of Hildirida’s sons.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 140.0003 Tm (There was a man named Kettle Hæing, son of Thorkel earl of Naumdale, and of Hrafnilda daughter of)Tj T* (Kettle Hæing of Hrafnista. He was a man of wealth and renown; he had been a fast friend of Thorolf)Tj T* (Kveldulf’s son, and was his near kinsman. He had been out on that expedition when forces gathered in)Tj T* (Halogaland with intent to join Thorolf, as has been written above. But when king Harold went south,)Tj T* (and men knew of Thorolf’s slaying, then they called a gathering.)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 3962 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Hæing took with him sixty men, and turned to Torgar. Hildirida’s sons were there, and few men with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (them. He went up to the farm, and made an attack on them; and there fell Hildirida’s sons, and most of)Tj T* (those who were there; and Hæing and his company took all the wealth they could lay hands on. After)Tj T* (that Hæing took two ships of burden, the largest he could get, and put on board all the wealth)Tj T* (belonging to him that he could carry; his wife and children also he took, and all the men that had been)Tj T* (with him in the late work. And when they were ready and the wind blew fair, they sailed out to sea. A)Tj T* (man named Baug, Hæing’s foster-brother, of good family and wealthy, steered the second ship.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (A few winters before Ingjolf and Hjorleif had gone to settle in Iceland; their voyage was much talked)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (about, and ’twas said there was good choice of land there. So Hæing sailed west over the sea to seek)Tj T* (Iceland. And when they saw land, they were approaching it from the south. But because the wind was)Tj T* (boisterous, and the surf ran high on the shore, and there was no haven, they sailed on westwards along)Tj T* (the sandy coast. And when the wind began to abate, and the surf to calm down, there before them was)Tj T* (a wide river-mouth. Up this river they steered their ships, and lay close to the eastern shore thereof.)Tj T* (That river is now called Thjors-river; its stream was then much narrower and deeper that it is now.)Tj T* (They unloaded their ships, then searched the land eastward of the river, bringing their cattle after them.)Tj T* (Hæing remained for the first winter on the eastern bank of the outer Rang-river.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But in the spring he searched the land eastwards, and then took land between Thjors-river and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Mark-fleet, from fell to firth, and made his home at Hofi by east Rang-river. Ingunn his wife bare a)Tj T* (son in this spring after their first winter, and the boy was named Hrafn. And though the house there)Tj T* (was pulled down, the place continued to be called Hrafn-toft. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Hæing gave Baug land in Fleet-lithe, down from Mark-river to the river outside Breidabolstead; and he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (dwelt at Lithe-end. To his shipmates Hæing gave land or sold it for a small price, and these first)Tj T* (settlers are called land-takers. Hæing had sons Storolf, Herjolf, Helgi, Vestar; they all had land. Hrafn)Tj T* (was Hæing’s fifth son. He was the first law-man in Iceland; he dwelt at Hofi after his father, and was)Tj T* (the most renowned of Hæing’s sons.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 360 Tm (Chapter 24 - Kveldulf’s grief.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 335.8 Tm (Kveldulf heard of his son Thorolf’s death, and so deeply grieved was he at the tidings that he took to)Tj T* (his bed from sorrow and age. Skallagrim came often to him, and talked with him; he bade him cheer)Tj T* (up. ’Anything,’ \(he said\) ’ was more fitting than to become worthless and lie bedridden; better counsel)Tj T* (is it that we seek to avenge Thorolf. Maybe we shall come across some of those who took part in his)Tj T* (slaying; but if not that, yet there will be men whom we can reach, and thereby displease the king.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Kveldulf sang a stave:)Tj T* (’Thorolf in northern isle)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (\(O cruel Norns!\) is dead:)Tj T* (Too soon the Thunder-god)Tj T* (Hath ta’en my warrior son.)Tj T* (Thor’s heavy wrestler, age,)Tj T* (Holds my weak limbs from fray:)Tj T* (Though keen my spirit spurs,)Tj T* (No speedy vengeance mine.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (King Harold went that summer to Upland, and in the autumn westwards to Valres, and as far as Vors.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Aulvir Hnuf was with the king, and often spoke with him about whether he would pay atonement for)Tj T* (Thorolf, granting to Kveldulf and Skallagrim money compensation, or such honour as would content)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 3618 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (them. The king did not altogether refuse this, if father and son would come to him. Whereupon Aulvir)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (started northwards for the Firths, nor stayed his journey till he came one evening to these twain. They)Tj T* (received him gratefully, and he remained there for some time. Kveldulf questioned Aulvir closely)Tj T* (about the doings at Sandness when Thorolf fell, what doughty deeds Thorolf had wrought before he)Tj T* (fell, who smote him with weapon, where he received most wounds, what was the manner of his fall.)Tj T* (Aulvir told him all that he asked; and that king Harold gave him the wound that was alone enough for)Tj T* (his bane, and that Thorolf fell forward at the very feet of the king.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then answered Kveldulf: ’Good is that thou tellest; for ’tis an old saw that he will be avenged who)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (falls forward, and that vengeance will reach him who stands before him when he falls; yet is it unlikely)Tj T* (that such good-fortune will be ours.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Aulvir told father and son that he hoped, if they would go to the king and crave atonement, that it)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (would be a journey to their honour; and he bade them venture this, adding many words to that end.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Kveldulf said he was too old to travel: ’I shall sit at home,’ said he.)Tj T* (’Wilt thou go, Grim?’ said Aulvir.)Tj T* (’I think I have no errand thither,’ said Grim; ’I shall seem to the king not fluent in speech; nor do I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (think I shall long pray for atonement.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Aulvir said that he would not need to do so: ’We will do all the speaking for thee as well as we can.’)Tj T* (And seeing that Aulvir pressed this matter strongly, Grim promised to go when he thought he could be)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (ready. He and Aulvir set them a time when Grim should come to the king. Then Aulvir went away)Tj T* (first, and returned to the king.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 382 Tm (Chapter 25 - Skallagrim’s journey to the king.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 357.8 Tm (Skallagrim made him ready for this journey, choosing out of his household and neighbours the)Tj T* (strongest and doughtiest that were to be found. One was Ani, a wealthy landowner, another Grani, a)Tj T* (third Grimolf and his brother Grim, house-carles these of Skallagrim, and the two brothers Thorbjorn)Tj T* (Krum and Thord Beigaldi. These were called Thororna’s sons; she dwelt hard by Skallagrim, and was)Tj T* (of magic skill. Beigaldi was a coal-biter. There was a man named Thorir Giant, and his brother)Tj T* (Thorgeir Earthlong, Odd Lonedweller, and Griss Freedman. Twelve there were for the journey, all)Tj T* (stalwart men, and several of them shape-strong.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They took a rowing-ship of Skallagrim’s, went southwards along the coast, stood in to Ostra Firth,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (then travelled by land up to Vors to the lake there; and, their course lying so that they must cross it,)Tj T* (they got a suitable rowing-ship and ferried them over, whence they had not very far to go to the farm)Tj T* (where the king was being entertained.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They came there at the time when the king was gone to table. Some men they found to speak with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (outside in the yard, and asked what was going on. This being told them, Grim begged one to call)Tj T* (Aulvir Hnuf to speak with him. The man went into the room and up to where Aulvir sat, and said:)Tj T* (’There be men here outside newly come, twelve together, if men one may call them, for they are liker)Tj T* (to giants in stature and semblance than to mortal men.’)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 3619 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Aulvir at once rose and went out, for he knew who they were who had come. He greeted well his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (kinsman Grim, and bade him go with him into the room.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Grim said to his comrades: ’’Tis the custom here that men go weaponless before the king; six of us)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (shall go in, the other six shall bide without and keep our weapons.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then they entered, and Aulvir went up to the king, Skallagrim standing at his back. Aulvir was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (spokesman: ’Here now is come Grim Kveldulf’s son; we shall feel thankful to thee, O king, if thou)Tj T* (make his journey hither a good one, as we hope it will be. Many get great honour from thee to whom)Tj T* (less is due, and who are not nearly so accomplished as is he in every kind of skill. Thou wilt also do)Tj T* (this because it is a matter of moment to me, if that is of any worth in thy opinion.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Aulvir spoke fully and fluently, for he was a man ready of words. And many other friends of Aulvir)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (went before the king and pleaded this cause.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king looked round, and saw that a man stood at Aulvir’s back taller than the others by a head, and )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (bald.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Is that Skallagrim,’ asked the king, ’that tall man?’)Tj T* (Grim said he guessed rightly.)Tj T* (’I will then,’ said the king, ’if thou cravest atonement for Thorolf, that thou become my liege-man, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (enter my guard here and serve me. Maybe I shall so like thy service that I shall grant thee atonement)Tj T* (for thy brother, or other honour not less than I granted him; but thou must know how to keep it better)Tj T* (than he did, if I make thee as great a man as was he.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Skallagrim answered: ’It is well known how far superior to me was Thorolf in every point, and he got)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (no luck by serving thee, O king. Now will I not take that counsel; serve thee I will not, for I know I)Tj T* (should get no luck by yielding thee such service as I should wish and as would be worthy. Methinks I)Tj T* (should fail herein more than Thorolf.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king was silent, and his face became blood-red. Aulvir at once turned away, and bade Grim and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (his men go out. They did so. They went out, and took their weapons, and Aulvir bade them begone)Tj T* (with all haste. He and many with him escorted them to the water-side. Before parting with Skallagrim,)Tj T* (Aulvir said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Kinsman, thy journey to the king ended otherwise than I would have chosen. I urged much thy)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (coming hither; now, I entreat thee, go home with all speed, and come not in the way of king Harold,)Tj T* (unless there be better agreement between you than now seems likely, and keep thee well from the king)Tj T* (and from his men.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Grim and his company went over the water; but Aulvir with his men, going to the ships drawn up)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (by the water-side, so hacked them about that none was fit to launch. For they saw men coming down)Tj T* (from the king’s house, a large body well armed and advancing furiously. These men king Harold had)Tj T* (sent after them to slay Grim. The king had found words soon after Grim went out, and said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’This I see in that tall baldhead: that he is brim full of wolfishness, and he will, if he can reach them,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (work scathe on men whom we should be loth to lose. Ye may be sure, ye against whom he may bear a)Tj T* (grudge, that he will spare none, if he get a chance. 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So they went back and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (told the king of their journey, and that Grim and his comrades would now have got clear over the lake.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Skallagrim went his way with his comrades till he reached home; he then told Kveldulf of this journey.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Kveldulf showed him well pleased that Skallagrim had not gone to the king on this errand to take)Tj T* (service under him; he still said, as before, that from the king they would get only loss and no amends.)Tj T* (Kveldulf and Skallagrim spoke often of their plans, and on this they were agreed, that they would not)Tj T* (be able to remain in the land any more than other men who were at enmity with the king, but their)Tj T* (counsel must be to go abroad. And it seemed to them desirable to seek Iceland, for good reports were)Tj T* (given about choice of land there. Already friends and acquaintances of theirs had gone thither - to wit,)Tj T* (Ingolf Arnarson, and his companions - and had taken to them land and homestead in Iceland. Men)Tj T* (might take land there free of cost, and choose their homestead at will.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So they quite settled to break up their household and go abroad.)Tj T* (Thorir Hroaldson had in his childhood been fostered with Kveldulf, and he and Skallagrim were about)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of an age, and as foster-brothers were dear friends. Thorir had become a baron of the king’s at the time)Tj T* (when the events just told happened, but the friendship between him and Skallagrim continued.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Early in the spring Kveldulf and his company made ready their ships. They had plenty of good craft to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (choose from; they made ready two large ships of burden, and took in each thirty able-bodied men,)Tj T* (besides women and children. All the movable goods that they could carry they took with them, but)Tj T* (their lands none dared buy, for fear of the king’s power. And when they were ready, they sailed away:)Tj T* (first to the islands called Solundir, which are many and large, and so scored with bays that few men \(it)Tj T* (is said\) know all their havens.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 401.8002 Tm (Chapter 26 - Of Guttorm.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 377.6002 Tm (There was a man named Guttorm, son of Sigurd Hart. He was mother’s brother to king Harold; also he)Tj T* (had been his foster-father, and ruler over his forces, for the king was a child when he first came to the)Tj T* (throne. Guttorm had commanded the army in all battles which Harold had fought to bring the land)Tj T* (under his sway. But when Harold became sole king of all Norway, and sat in peace, then he gave to his)Tj T* (kinsman Guttorm Westfold and East-Agdir, and Hringariki, and all the land that had belonged to)Tj T* (Halfdan Swarthy his father. Guttorm had two sons and two daughters. His sons were named Sigurd)Tj T* (and Ragnar; his daughters Ragnhildr and Aslaug.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Guttorm fell sick, and when near his end sent to king Harold, bidding him see to his children and his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (province. Soon after this he died. On hearing of his death, the king summoned Hallvard Hardfarer and)Tj T* (his brother, and told them to go on a message for him eastwards to Vik, he being then at Throndheim.)Tj T* (They made great preparations for their journey, choosing them men and the best ship they could get; it)Tj T* (was the very ship they had taken from Thorgils Yeller. But when they were ready, the king told them)Tj T* (their errand: they were to go eastwards to Tunsberg, the market town where Guttorm had resided. ’Ye)Tj T* (shall,’ said the king, ’bring to me Guttorm’s sons, but his daughters shall be fostered there till I bestow)Tj T* (them in marriage. 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He saw Hallvard’s company sailing by, and he knew the)Tj T* (ship, for he had seen it before when Thorgils went with it. Skallagrim watched their course, and where)Tj T* (they lay to in haven at eventide. Then he went back to his own people, and told Kveldulf what he had)Tj T* (seen, and withal how he had recognised the ship, being that which once was Thorolf’s, and was taken)Tj T* (by Hallvard from Thorgils, and doubtless there were some men on board who would be worth )Tj T* (catching.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So they made them ready with both their boats, and twenty men in each. Kveldulf steered one,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Skallagrim the other. Then they rowed and made for the ship. But when they came where it lay, they)Tj T* (put in to land.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Hallvard’s men had set up the tent over their ship, and laid them down to sleep. But when Kveldulf’s)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (force came upon them, then the watchmen who sat at the gangway-end leapt up, and called out to the)Tj T* (ship; they bade the men rise, for an enemy was upon them. Hallvard’s party leapt to their weapons.)Tj T* (But when Kveldulf with his men came to the gangway-end, he went out by the stern gangway, while)Tj T* (Skallagrim went forward to the other gangway.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Kveldulf had in his hand a battle-axe; but when he got on board, he bade his men go along the outer)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (way by the gunwale and cut the tent from its forks, while he himself rushed aft to the stern-castle. And)Tj T* (it is said that he then had a fit of shape-strength, as had also several of his comrades. They slew all that)Tj T* (came in their way, the same did Skallagrim where he boarded the ship; nor did father and son stay)Tj T* (hands till the ship was cleared. When Kveldulf came aft to the stern-castle, he brandished high his)Tj T* (battle-axe, and smote Hallvard right through helm and head, so that the axe sank in even to the shaft;)Tj T* (then he snatched it back towards him so forcibly that he whirled Hallvard aloft, and slung him)Tj T* (overboard. Skallagrim cleared the forecastle, slaying Sigtrygg. Many men plunged into the sea; but)Tj T* (Skallagrim’s men took one of the boats, and rowed after and slew all that were swimming.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (There were lost with Hallvard fifty men in all. The ship and the wealth that was in it Skallagrim’s men)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (took. Two or three men whom they deemed of least note they seized, and gave them their lives, asking)Tj T* (of them who had been in the ship, and what had been the purport of the voyage. After learning all the)Tj T* (truth about this, they looked over the slain who lay on ship-board. It was found that more had leapt)Tj T* (overboard, and so perished, than had fallen on the ship. The sons of Guttorm had leapt overboard and)Tj T* (perished. Of these, one was twelve years old, the other ten, and both were lads of promise.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Skallagrim set free the men whose lives he had spared, and bade them go to king Harold and tell)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (him the whole tale of what had been done there, and who had been the doers of it. ’Ye shall also,’ said)Tj T* (he, ’bear to the king this ditty:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’For a noble warrior slain)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Vengeance now on king is ta’en:)Tj T* (Wolf and eagle tread as prey)Tj T* (Princes born to sovereign sway.)Tj T* (Hallvard’s body cloven through)Tj T* (Headlong in the billows flew;)Tj T* (Wounds of wight once swift to fare)Tj T* (Swooping vulture’s beak doth tear.’)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 4159 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (After this Skallagrim and his men took out to their ships and captured ship and her cargo. And then)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they made an exchange, loading the ship they had taken, but emptying one of their own which was)Tj T* (smaller; and in this they put stones, and bored holes and sank it. Then, as soon as ever the wind was)Tj T* (fair, they sailed out to sea.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (It is said of shape-strong men, or men with a fit of Berserk fury on them, that while the fit lasted they)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (were so strong that nought could withstand them; but when it passed off, then they were weaker than)Tj T* (their wont. Even so it was with Kveldulf. When the shape-strong fit went from him, then he felt)Tj T* (exhaustion from the onset he had made, and became so utterly weak that he lay in bed.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And now a fair wind took them out to sea. Kveldulf commanded the ship which they had taken from)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Hallvard. With the fair wind the ships kept well together, and for long time were in sight of each other.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when they were now far advanced over the main, Kveldulf’s sickness grew worse. And when it)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (came to this, that death was near, then he called to him his shipmates, and told them that he thought it)Tj T* (likely they and he would soon take different ways. ’I have never,’ he said, ’been an ailing man; but if it)Tj T* (so be \(as now seems likely\) that I die, then make me a coffin, and put me overboard: and it will go far)Tj T* (otherwise than I think if I do not come to Iceland and take land there. Ye shall bear my greeting to my)Tj T* (son Grim, when ye meet, and tell him withal that if he come to Iceland, and things so turn out that)Tj T* (unlikely as it may seem I be there first, then he shall choose him a homestead as near as may be to)Tj T* (where I have come ashore.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Shortly after this Kveldulf died.)Tj T* (His shipmates did as he had bidden them do; they laid him in a coffin, and shot it overboard. There)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was a man named Grim, son of Thorir Kettlesson Keel-fare, of noble kin and wealthy. He was in)Tj T* (Kveldulf’s ship; he had been an old friend of both father and son, and a companion both of them and)Tj T* (of Thorolf, for which reason he had incurred the king’s anger. He now took command of the ship after)Tj T* (Kveldulf was dead.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when they were come to Iceland, approaching the land from the south, they sailed westwards)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (along the coast, because they had heard that Ingolf had settled there. But coming over against)Tj T* (Reykja-ness, and seeing the firth open before them, they steered both ships into the firth.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And now the wind came on to blow hard, with much rain and mist. Thus the ships were parted.)Tj T* (Grim the Halogalander and his crew sailed in up the Borgar Firth past all the skerries; then they cast)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (anchor till the wind fell and the weather cleared. They waited for the flood-tide, and then took their)Tj T* (ship up into a river-mouth; it is called Gufu-river. They drew the ship up this river as far as it could go;)Tj T* (then unshipped the cargo, and remained there for the first winter. They explored the land along the sea)Tj T* (both inwards and outwards, and they had not gone far before they found Kveldulf’s coffin cast up in a)Tj T* (creek. They carried the coffin to the ness hard by, set it down there, and raised thereover a pile of )Tj T* (stones.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 173.0001 Tm (Chapter 28 - Of Skallagrim’s land-taking.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 148.8 Tm (Skallagrim came to land where a large ness ran out into the sea, and above the ness was a narrow)Tj T* (isthmus; and there they put out their lading. That ness they called Ship-ness. Then Skallagrim spied)Tj T* (out the land: there was much moorland and wide woods, and a broad space between fells and firths,)Tj T* (seal-hunting in plenty, and good fishing. But as they spied out the land southwards along the sea, they)Tj T* (found before them a large firth; and, turning inwards along this firth, they stayed not their going till)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 4521 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (they found their companions, Grim the Halogalander and the rest. A joyful meeting was there. They)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (told Skallagrim of his father’s death, and how Kveldulf had come to land there, and they had buried)Tj T* (him. Then they led Skallagrim to the place, and it seemed to him that thereabouts would be a good)Tj T* (spot to build a homestead. He then went away, and back to his shipmates; and for that winter each)Tj T* (party remained where they had come to land. Then Skallagrim took land between fells and firths, all)Tj T* (the moors out to Seal-loch, and the upper land to Borgarhraun, and southwards to Hafnar-fell, and all)Tj T* (that land from the watershed to the sea. Next spring he moved his ship southwards to the firth, and into)Tj T* (the creek close to where Kveldulf came to land; and there he set his homestead, and called it Borg, and)Tj T* (the firth Borgar-firth, and so too the country-side further up they named after the firth.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (To Grim the Halogalander he gave dwelling-place south of Borgar-firth, on the shore named)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Hvann-eyrr. A little beyond this a bay of no great size cuts into the land. There they found many)Tj T* (ducks, wherefore they called it Duck-kyle, and the river that fell into the sea there Duck-kyle-river.)Tj T* (From this river to the river called Grims-river, the land stretching upwards between them Grim had.)Tj T* (That same spring, as Skallagrim had his cattle driven inwards along the sea, they came to a small ness)Tj T* (where they caught some swans, so they called it Swan-ness. Skallagrim gave land to his shipmates.)Tj T* (The land between Long-river and Hafs-brook he gave to Ani, who dwelt at Anabrekka. His son was)Tj T* (Aunund Sjoni. About this was the controversy of Thorstein and Tongue Odd.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Grani dwelt at Granastead on Digraness. To Thorbjorn Krum he gave the land by Gufu-river upward,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and to Thord of Beigaldi. Krum dwelt at Krums-hills, but Thord at Beigaldi. To Thorir Giant and his)Tj T* (brothers he gave land upwards from Einkunnir and the outer part by Long-river. Thorir Giant dwelt at)Tj T* (Giantstead. His daughter was Thordis Staung, who afterwards dwelt at Stangerholt. Thorgeir dwelt at )Tj T* (Earthlongstead.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Skallagrim spied out the land upwards all round the country-side. First he went inwards along the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Borgar-firth to its head; then followed the west bank of the river, which he called White-river, because)Tj T* (he and his companions had never before seen waters that fell out of glaciers, and the colour of the river)Tj T* (seemed to them wonderful.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They went up along White-river till a river was before them coming down from the fells to the north;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (this they called North-river. And they followed it up till yet again before them was a river bringing)Tj T* (down but little water. This river they crossed, and still went up along North-river; then they soon saw)Tj T* (where the little river fell out of a cleft, and they called it Cleave-river. Then they crossed North-river,)Tj T* (and went back to White-river, and followed that upwards. Soon again a river crossed their way, and)Tj T* (fell into White-river; this they called Cross-river. They learnt that every river was full of fish. After)Tj T* (this they returned to Borg.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 243.4002 Tm (Chapter 29 - Of Skallagrim’s industry.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 219.2002 Tm (Skallagrim was most industrious. He had about him always many men, whom he set to seek diligently)Tj T* (all such provisions as could be got there for man’s sustenance, because at first they had but little)Tj T* (live-stock compared with the needs of their numerous company. But what live-stock they had went)Tj T* (every winter self-feeding in the woods.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Skallagrim was a good shipwright, and westwards of Myrar was no lack of driftwood. He had)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (buildings set up on Swan-ness, and had another house there. This he made a starting-point for)Tj T* (sea-fishing, seal-hunting, and egg-gathering; in all these kinds there was plenty of provisions to get, as)Tj T* (well as driftwood to bring to him. Whales also often came in there, and whoso would might shoot)Tj T* (them. All such creatures were then tame on the hunting-ground, as they were unused to man. His third)Tj T* (house he had on the sea in Western Myrar. This was even a better place to look out for driftwood.)Tj ET endstream endobj 94 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 96 0 obj << /Length 4256 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (There, too, he had land sown, and called it Acres. Over against it lay islands, among which whales)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (were found; these they called Whale-islands.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Skallagrim also sent his men up on the salmon-rivers to fish. He set Odd Lonehouse by Cleave-river to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (see to the salmon-fishing there. Odd dwelt under Lonehouse. Lonehouse-ness has its name from him.)Tj T* (Sigmund was the name of the man whom Skallagrim set by North-river; he dwelt at what was then)Tj T* (called Sigmundstead, but now Hauga. Sigmundar-ness takes its name from him. He afterwards moved)Tj T* (his homestead to Munodar-ness, that being thought more convenient for salmon-fishing.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But as Skallagrim’s live-stock multiplied, the cattle used to go up to the fells in the summer. And he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (found that the cattle that went on the heath were by far better and fatter; also that sheep did well)Tj T* (through the winters in the fell-dales without being driven down. So Skallagrim set up buildings close)Tj T* (to the fell, and had a house there; and there he had his sheep kept. Of this farm Griss was the)Tj T* (overlooker, and after him was called Grisartongue. Thus Skallagrim’s wealth had many legs to stand )Tj T* (on.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Some time after Skallagrim’s coming out, a ship put into Borgar-firth from the main, commanded by a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (man named Oleif Halt. With him were his wife and children and other of his kin, and the aim of his)Tj T* (voyage was to get him a home in Iceland. Oleif was a man wealthy, high-born, and fore-seeing.)Tj T* (Skallagrim asked Oleif and all his company to his house for lodging. Oleif accepted this, and was with)Tj T* (Skallagrim for his first winter in Iceland.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But in the following spring Skallagrim showed him to choice land south of White-river upwards from)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Grims-river to Flokadale-river. Oleif accepted this, and moved thither his household, and set there his)Tj T* (homestead by Warm-brook as it is called. He was a man of renown; his sons were Ragi in)Tj T* (Hot-spring-dale, and Thorarin, Ragi’s brother, who took the law-speakership next after Hrafn)Tj T* (Hængsson. Thorarin dwelt at Warm-brook; he had to wife Thordis, daughter of Olaf Shy, sister of)Tj T* (Thord Yeller.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 362.2002 Tm (Chapter 30 - Of the coming out of Yngvar, and of)Tj T* (Skallagrim’s iron-forging.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 317.6002 Tm (King Harold Fair-hair took for his own all those lands that Kveldulf and Skallagrim had left behind in)Tj T* (Norway, and all their other property that he could lay hands on. He also sought diligently after those)Tj T* (men who had been in the counsels or confidence or in any way helpers of Skallagrim and his folk in)Tj T* (the deeds which they wrought before Skallagrim went abroad out of the land. And so far stretched the)Tj T* (enmity of the king against father and son, that he bore hatred against their kith and kin, or any whom)Tj T* (he knew to have been their dear friends. Some suffered punishment from him, many fled away and)Tj T* (sought refuge, some within the land, some out of the land altogether. Yngvar Skallagrim’s wife’s)Tj T* (father was one of these men aforesaid. This rede did he take, that he turned all his wealth that he could)Tj T* (into movables, then gat him a sea-going ship and a crew thereto, and made ready to go to Iceland, for)Tj T* (he had heard that Skallagrim had taken up his abode there, and there would be no lack of choice land)Tj T* (there with Skallagrim. So when they were ready and a fair wind blew, he sailed out to sea, and his)Tj T* (voyage sped well. He came to Iceland on the south coast, and held on westwards past Reykja-ness, and)Tj T* (sailed into Borgar-firth, and entering Long-river went up it even to the Falls. There they put out they)Tj T* (ship’s lading.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Skallagrim heard of Yngvar’s coming, he at once went to meet him and bade him to his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (house with as many men as he would. Yngvar accepted this offer. The ship was drawn up, and Yngvar)Tj T* (went to Borg with many men, and stayed that winter with Skallagrim. In the spring Skallagrim offered)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 4067 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (him choice land. He gave Yngvar the farm which he had on Swan-ness, and land inwards to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Mud-brook and outwards to Strome-firth. Thereupon Yngvar went out to this farm and took)Tj T* (possession, and he was a most able man and a wealthy. Skallagrim then built a house on Ship-ness,)Tj T* (and this he kept for a long time thereafter.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Skallagrim was a good iron-smith, and in winter wrought much in red iron ore. He had a smithy set up)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (some way out from Borg, close by the sea, at a place now called Raufar-ness. The woods he thought)Tj T* (were not too far from thence. But since he could find no stone there so hard or smooth as he thought)Tj T* (good for hammering iron on \(for there are no beach pebbles, the seashore being all fine sand\), one)Tj T* (evening, when other were gone to sleep, Skallagrim went to the sea, and pushed out an eight-oared)Tj T* (boat he had, and rowed out to the Midfirth islands. There he dropped an anchor from the bows of the)Tj T* (boat, then stepped overboard, and dived down to the bottom, and brought up a large stone, and lifted it)Tj T* (into the boat. Then he himself climbed into the boat and rowed to land, and carried the stone to the)Tj T* (smithy and laid it down before the smithy door, and thenceforth he hammered iron on it. That stone)Tj T* (lies there yet, and much slag beside it; and the marks of the hammering may be seen on its upper face,)Tj T* (and it is a surf-worn boulder, unlike the other stones that are there. Four men nowadays could not lift a)Tj T* (larger mass. Skallagrim worked hard at smithying, but his house-carles grumbled thereat, and thought)Tj T* (it over early rising. Then Skallagrim composed this stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Who wins wealth by iron)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Right early must rise:)Tj T* (Of the sea’s breezy brother)Tj T* (Wind-holders need blast.)Tj T* (On furnace-gold glowing)Tj T* (My stout hammer rings,)Tj T* (While heat-feeding bellows)Tj T* (A whistling storm stir.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 371.0001 Tm (Chapter 31 - Of Skallagrim’s children.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 346.8001 Tm (Skallagrim and Bera had a great many children, but at first they all died. Then they had a son, who was)Tj T* (sprinkled with water and named Thorolf. As a child he soon grew to be tall and was fair of)Tj T* (countenance. It was the talk of all that he would be just such another as Thorolf Kveldulf’s son, after)Tj T* (whom he was named. Thorolf was far beyond children of his own age in strength. And as he grew to)Tj T* (manhood he became doughty in most accomplishments then in vogue among those who were well)Tj T* (trained. Thorolf was of a right cheery mood. Early did he come to such full strength as to be deemed)Tj T* (fit for warlike service with other men. He was soon a favourite with all, and his father and mother)Tj T* (loved him well. Skallagrim and his wife had two daughters; one was named Sæunn, the other Thorunn.)Tj T* (They also were of great promise as they grew up. Then Skallagrim and his wife had yet another son.)Tj T* (He was sprinkled with water and named, and his name was Egil. But as he grew up it was soon seen)Tj T* (that he would be ill-favoured, like his father, with black hair. When but three years old he was as tall)Tj T* (and strong as other boys of six or seven. He was soon talkative and word-wise. Somewhat ill to)Tj T* (manage was he when at play with other lads.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That spring, Yngvar went to Borg, his errand being to bid Skallagrim to a feast at his house, he also)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (named for the party his daughter Bera and Thorolf her son, and any others that Skallagrim liked to)Tj T* (bring. Skallagrim promised to come. Yngvar then went home, prepared for the banquet, and had ale)Tj T* (brewed. But when the set time came that Skallagrim and Bera should go to the feast, Thorolf made)Tj T* (him ready to go with them, as also some house-carles, so that they were fifteen in all. Egil told his)Tj T* (father that he wished to go.)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 3357 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (’I am,’ said he, ’as much akin to Yngvar as is Thorolf.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’You shall not go,’ said Skallagrim, ’for you know not how to behave yourself in company where)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (there is much drinking, you who are not good to deal with though you be sober.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Skallagrim mounted his horse and rode away, but Egil was ill content with his lot.)Tj T* (He went out of the yard, and found a draught horse of Skallagrim’s, got on its back and rode after)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Skallagrim’s party. No easy way had he over the moor, for he did not know the road; but he kept his)Tj T* (eyes on the riders before him when copse or wood were not in the way. And this is to tell of his)Tj T* (journey, that late in the evening he came to Swan-ness, when men sat there a-drinking. He went into)Tj T* (the room, but when Yngvar saw Egil he received him joyfully, and asked why he had come so late.)Tj T* (Egil told of his words with Skallagrim. Yngvar made Egil sit by him, they two sat opposite Skallagrim)Tj T* (and Thorolf. For merriment over their ale they fell to reciting staves. Then Egil recited a stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Hasting I came to the hearth fire)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Of Yngvar, right fain so to find him,)Tj T* (Him who on heroes bestoweth)Tj T* (Gold that the heather-worm guardeth.)Tj T* (Thou, of the snake’s shining treasure)Tj T* (Always a generous giver,)Tj T* (Wilt not than me of three winters)Tj T* (Doughtier song-smith discover.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Yngvar praised this stave, and thanked Egil much therefor, but on the morrow he brought to Egil as)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (reward for the poem three sea-snail shells and a duck’s egg. And next day at the drinking Egil recited)Tj T* (another stave about his poem’s reward:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’The wielder of keen-biting wound-fowl)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Gave unto Egil the talker)Tj T* (Three silent dogs of the surf-swell,)Tj T* (Meet for the praise in his poem.)Tj T* (He, the skilled guide of the sea-horse,)Tj T* (Knowing to please with a present,)Tj T* (Gave as fourth gift to young Egil)Tj T* (Round egg, the brook-bird’s bed-bolster.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil’s poetry won him thanks from many men. No more tidings were there of that journey. Egil went)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (home with Skallagrim.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 223.6002 Tm (Chapter 32 - Of lord Brynjolf and Bjorn, his son.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 199.4001 Tm (There was in Sogn a lord named Bjorn, a rich man; he dwelt at Aurland. His son was Brynjolf, who)Tj T* (was sole heir to all his father’s wealth. Brynjolf’s sons were Bjorn and Thord. They were young when)Tj T* (what has been just told happened. Bjorn was a great traveller, sometimes on free-booting, sometimes)Tj T* (on trading voyages. He was a right doughty man. It so chanced that one summer Bjorn was present at a)Tj T* (banquet attended by many. He saw there a fair maiden who pleased him well. He asked of what family)Tj T* (she was, and was told that she was sister of lord Thorir Hroaldsson, and was named Thora, with the)Tj T* (by-name Lacehand. Bjorn made his suit and asked Thora to wife. But Thorir refused his offer, and)Tj T* (with this they parted. But that same autumn Bjorn took men and went with a cutter well equipt)Tj T* (northwards to the Firths, and came to Thorir’s when he was not at home. Bjorn took Thora away)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 4398 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (thence, and home with him to Aurland. They two were there for the winter, and Bjorn would fain hold)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (a wedding with her. Brynjolf his father ill liked what Bjorn had done; he thought there was dishonour)Tj T* (therein, whereas there had been ere this long friendship between Thorir and Brynjolf.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’So far,’ said he, ’Bjorn, from your holding a wedding with Thora here in my house without the leave)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of her brother, she shall be here as well respected as if she were my daughter and your sister.’ And all)Tj T* (had to be as Brynjolf ordered in his household, whether Bjorn liked it well or ill. Brynjolf sent men to)Tj T* (Thorir to offer him atonement and redress for what Bjorn had done. Thorir bade Brynjolf send Thora)Tj T* (home; no atonement could there be else. But Bjorn would in no wise let her go away, though Brynjolf)Tj T* (begged it. And so the winter wore on.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when spring came, then Brynjolf and Bjorn were talking one day of their matters. Brynjolf asked)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (what Bjorn meant to do. Bjorn said ’twas likeliest that he should go away out of the land.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Most to my mind is it,’ said he, ’that you should give me a long-ship and crew therewith, and I go a )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (free-booting.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’No hope is there of this,’ said Brynjolf, ’that I shall put in your hands a warship and strong force, for I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (know not but you will go about just what is against my wish; why even now already I have enough)Tj T* (trouble from you. A merchant-ship I will give you, and wares withal: go you then southwards to)Tj T* (Dublin. That voyage is now most highly spoken of. I will get you a good crew.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bjorn said he would take this as his father willed. So he had a good merchant-ship made ready, and got)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (men for it. Bjorn now made him ready for this voyage, but was some time about it. But when he was)Tj T* (quite ready and a fair wind blew, he embarked on a boat with twelve men and rowed in to Aurland,)Tj T* (and they went up to the homestead and to his mother’s bower. She was sitting therein with many)Tj T* (women. Thora was there. Bjorn said Thora must go with him, and they led her away. But his mother)Tj T* (bade the women not dare to let them know this within in the hall: Brynjolf, she said, would be in a sad)Tj T* (way if he knew it, and this would bring about great mischief between father and son. But Thora’s)Tj T* (clothes and trinkets were all laid there ready to hand, and Bjorn and his men took all with them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then they went that night out to their ship, at once hoisted their sail, and sailed out by the Sogn-sea,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and so to the main. They had an ill wind, before which they must needs run, and were long tossed)Tj T* (about on the main, because they were bent on shunning Norway at all hazards. And so it was that one)Tj T* (day they were sailing off the east coast of Shetland during a gale, and brake their ship in making land)Tj T* (at Moss-ey. They got out the cargo, and went into the town that was there, carrying thither all their)Tj T* (wares, and they drew up their ship and repaired damages.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 247.8001 Tm (Chapter 33 - Bjorn goes to Iceland.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 223.6002 Tm (A little before winter came a ship from the south out of the Orkneys, with the tidings that a long-ship)Tj T* (had come in autumn to those islands. Therein were messengers of king Harold, with this errand to earl)Tj T* (Sigurd, that the king would have Bjorn Brynjolfsson slain wherever he might be found, and the same)Tj T* (message Harold sent to the Southern Isles and even to Dublin. Bjorn heard these tidings, and withal)Tj T* (that he was outlawed in Norway. Forthwith on reaching Shetland Bjorn had held his wedding with)Tj T* (Thora, and through the winter they stayed at Moss-ey-town.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But in spring, as soon as ever the sea began to calm, Bjorn drew forth his ship, and made him ready)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with all speed. And when he was ready and got a wind, he sailed out to the main. They had a strong)Tj T* (breeze, and were but little time out ere they came to the south coast of Iceland. The wind was blowing)Tj T* (on the land; then it bore them westwards along the coast, and so out to sea. But when they got a shift)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 4090 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (of wind back again, then they sailed for the land. There was not a single man on board who had been)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (in Iceland before. They sailed into a wondrous large firth, the wind bearing them towards its western)Tj T* (shore. Land-wards nothing was seen but breakers and harbourless shore. Then they stood slant-wise)Tj T* (across the wind as they might \(but still eastwards\), till a firth lay over against them, into which they)Tj T* (sailed, till all the skerries and the surf were passed. Then they put in by a ness. An island lay out)Tj T* (opposite this, and a deep sound was between them: there they made fast the ship. A bay ran up west of)Tj T* (the ness, and above this bay stood a good-sized rocky hill. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bjorn and some men with him got into a boat, Bjorn telling his comrades to beware of saying about)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (their voyage aught that might work them trouble. They rowed to the buildings, and found there men to)Tj T* (speak to. First they asked where they had come to land. The men told them that this was named)Tj T* (Borgar-firth; that the buildings they saw were called Borg; that the goodman was Skallagrim.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bjorn at once remembered about him, and he went to meet Skallagrim, and they talked together.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Skallagrim asked who they were. Bjorn named himself and his father, but Skallagrim knew Brynjolf)Tj T* (well, so he offered to Bjorn such help as he needed. This Bjorn accepted thankfully. Then Skallagrim)Tj T* (asked what others there were in the ship, persons of rank. Bjorn said there was Thora, Hroald’s)Tj T* (daughter, sister of lord Thorir. Skallagrim was right glad for that, and said that it was his bounden duty)Tj T* (to give to the sister of Thorir his own foster-brother such help as she needed or he could supply; and he)Tj T* (bade her and Bjorn both to his house with all his shipmates. Bjorn accepted this. So the cargo was)Tj T* (moved from the ship up to the homestead at Borg. There they set up their booths; but the ship was)Tj T* (drawn up into the brook hard by. And where Bjorn’s party had their booths is still called Bjorn’s)Tj T* (home-field. Bjorn and his shipmates all took up their abode with Skallagrim, who never had about him)Tj T* (fewer than sixty stout fellows.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 410.6001 Tm (Chapter 34 - Of Skallagrim and Bjorn.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 386.4001 Tm (It befell in autumn, when ships had come to Iceland from Norway, that this report came over, how)Tj T* (Bjorn had run away with Thora without the consent of her kin, and for that the king had made him an)Tj T* (outlaw from Norway. But when Skallagrim got to know this, he called Bjorn to him, and asked how it)Tj T* (had been with his marriage; had it been made with the consent of his wife’s kin.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I never looked for this,’ said he, ’in a son of Brynjolf, that I should not know the truth from him.’)Tj T* (Bjorn answered, ’Truth only told I to you, Grim, and you may not rebuke me for this, though I told)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (you no further than you asked. But now I must own this, which is true, that you have heard truth about)Tj T* (this match not being made with the agreement of Thorir, my wife’s brother.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then spake Skallagrim in great wrath, ’How dared you come to meet me? Did you not know what)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (friendship was between me and Thorir?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bjorn answered, ’I knew that between you two was foster-brotherhood and close friendship; but I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sought your home because I was driven ashore here, and I knew it would avail naught to shun you.)Tj T* (Now will it be for you to rule what my lot shall be, but I hope for good from you as I am of your )Tj T* (household.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then came forward Thorolf Skallagrim’s son, and added many a word, and begged his father not to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (lay this to Bjorn’s charge after once receiving him. Several others spoke to the same end. And so it)Tj T* (came that Skallagrim was appeased, and said that Thorolf should have his way here.)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 4377 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (’Take you Bjorn,’ said he, ’and deal with him as may best prove your manhood.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 709.8 Tm (Chapter 35 - Thorolf goes abroad.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 685.6 Tm (Thora bare a child in the summer; it was a girl. She was sprinkled with water, and named Asgerdr.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Bera got a woman to look after the girl. Bjorn stayed for the winter with Skallagrim as did all his)Tj T* (shipmates. Thorolf struck up a friendship with Bjorn, and was ever in his company. But when spring)Tj T* (came, one day Thorolf had a talk with his father, and asked him what counsel he would give about)Tj T* (Bjorn his winter guest, or what help he would lend him. Grim asked Thorolf what Bjorn had in view.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I think,’ said Thorolf, ’that Bjorn would soonest go to Norway, if he could be there in peace.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Methinks, father, this plan lies before us, that you send men to Norway to offer atonement for Bjorn;)Tj T* (Thorir will greatly honour your word.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf by his persuasion so managed that Skallagrim yielded and gave men for the outward voyage)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that summer. These went with message and tokens to Thorir Hroaldsson, and sought atonement)Tj T* (between him and Bjorn. But no sooner did Brynjolf hear this than he, too, set his whole mind to offer)Tj T* (atonement for Bjorn. And the end of this matter was that Thorir took atonement for Bjorn, because he)Tj T* (saw that it had come to this now that Bjorn had nothing to fear. Thus Brynjolf got atonement accepted)Tj T* (for Bjorn, and Skallagrim’s messengers abode with Thorir for the winter. In the summer following)Tj T* (they went back; and on their coming back in autumn they told their tidings that Bjorn was admitted to)Tj T* (atonement in Norway. Bjorn was with Skallagrim for yet a third winter. But next spring he made him)Tj T* (ready for departure with his following. And when Bjorn was ready for going, then Bera said she would)Tj T* (fain have Asgerdr, her foster-child, left-behind. This Bjorn accepted, and the girl was left behind and)Tj T* (brought up with Skallagrim’s family. Thorolf, Skallagrim’s son, settled to go with Bjorn, and)Tj T* (Skallagrim gave him mean for the journey. So he went abroad in the summer with Bjorn. Their voyage)Tj T* (sped well, and they came off the main into Sogn-sea. Bjorn then sailed into Sogn, and thence on home)Tj T* (to his father, and Thorolf with him. Brynjolf received them joyfully. Then word was sent to Thorir)Tj T* (Hroaldsson. He and Brynjolf set a time for a meeting; to this meeting Bjorn also came. He and Thorir)Tj T* (there ratified their atonement. Then Thorir paid out of hand such property in his house as belonged to)Tj T* (Thora; and thereafter Thorir and Bjorn were good brothers-in-law and friends. Bjorn then stayed at)Tj T* (home at Aurland with Brynjolf, Thorolf also being there in much favour both with father and son.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 299.6001 Tm (Chapter 36 - Of Eric Bloodaxe and Thorolf.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 275.4001 Tm (King Harold long held his residence in Hordaland or Rogaland, at those large estates that he owned, at)Tj T* (Outstone or Augvalds-ness, or at Afreksted in Fitjar, or at Seaham in Lygra. But this winter the king)Tj T* (was in the north part of the land.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now, when Bjorn and Thorolf had been one winter in Norway and spring came, they made ready a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (ship and gathered men. And in the summer they went a-freebooting eastwards, and came home in the)Tj T* (autumn, having won much wealth. But when they came home they heard that King Harold was in)Tj T* (Rogaland and would remain there for the winter. King Harold was beginning to age much and fail in)Tj T* (strength, but many of his sons were come to vigour. His son Eric, by-named Bloodaxe, was then quite)Tj T* (young. He was being fostered with lord Thorir Hroaldsson. The king loved Eric above all his sons.)Tj T* (Thorir was on most intimate terms with the king then.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bjorn and Thorolf, when they came home, went first to Aurland, but afterwards turned their way)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (northwards to visit lord Thorir at his home. They had a certain galley rowed by thirteen or fourteen)Tj T* (oarsmen on either side, and they had about thirty men with them. This ship they had taken in their)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 3244 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (summer freebooting. It was gaily painted above the sea-line, and was very beautiful. But when they)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (came to Thorir they were made welcome, and abode there some time; while the ship, tented over,)Tj T* (floated opposite the house. It happened one day that, as Thorolf and Bjorn were going down to the)Tj T* (ship, they saw that Eric, the king’s son, was there; he went now out on to the ship, now up to the land,)Tj T* (and stood there looking at the ship. Then said Bjorn to Thorolf:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’The king’s son admires the ship much; do you offer it to him as a present, for I know it will much)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (help us with the king if Eric be our pleader with him. I have heard it said that the king bears a heavy)Tj T* (grudge against you for your father’s sake.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf said that this would be a good plan.)Tj T* (They then went down to the ship, and Thorolf spoke:)Tj T* (’Thou regardest the ship carefully, prince; how dost thou like it?’)Tj T* (’Right well,’ said he, ’it is a perfect beauty.’)Tj T* (’Then will I give it thee,’ said Thorolf, ’if thou wilt take the present.’)Tj T* (’Take it I will,’ said Eric, ’and thou wilt deem it but poor payment therefor though I should offer thee)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (my friendship; but this thou mayest look for if I live.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf said that he thought the ship were thus far overpaid.)Tj T* (Then they separated. But thenceforward the king’s son was right cheerful with Thorolf and his friend.)Tj T* (Bjorn and Thorolf, talking with Thorir, asked him whether he thought it true that the king bore a heavy)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (grudge against Thorolf.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorir did not deny that he had heard so.)Tj T* (’Then I would fain,’ said Bjorn, ’that you should go and plead Thorolf’s cause before him, for one lot)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (shall befall me and Thorolf; he did as much for me when I was in Iceland.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The end was that Thorir promised to go to the king, and bade them try whether the king’s son would)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (go with him. But when Thorolf and Bjorn spake of this with Eric, he promised his influence with his )Tj T* (father.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that Thorolf and Bjorn went their way to Sogn. But Thorir and Eric the king’s son set in order)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the newly-given galley, and went south to meet the king, and found him in Hordaland. He received)Tj T* (them joyfully. They remained there for awhile, watching for a fit time to approach the king when he)Tj T* (should be in a good humour. Then they opened this matter before the king, and said that a certain man)Tj T* (had come named Thorolf, Skallagrim’s son. ’We would pray thee,’ they said, ’O king, to bear in mind)Tj T* (this: that his kinsmen have done good to thee, and not to make him pay for what his father did in)Tj T* (avenging his brother.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorir spoke herein soft words, but the king answered rather shortly that to him and his much)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (mischance had come from Kveldulf and his sons, and ’twas to be looked for that this Thorolf would be)Tj T* (like-minded with his kin. ’They are all,’ said he, ’overbearing men, who know no measure, and care)Tj T* (not with whom they have to deal.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 116 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 118 0 obj << /Length 4272 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Then Eric took the word. He said that Thorolf had made friends with him, and given him a noble)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (present that ship which they had there. ’I have,’ said he, ’promised him my hearty friendship. There)Tj T* (will be few to become friends with me if this man get nothing by it. Thou wilt not let it be so, father,)Tj T* (with him who has been the first to give me such a treasure.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The end was that the king promised them before they parted that Thorolf should be in peace with him.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’But I will not,’ said he, ’ that he come into my presence. And thou, Eric, mayst make him as close to)Tj T* (thee as thou wilt, him or more of his kin. But one of two things will happen, either they will be softer)Tj T* (to thee than to me, or thou wilt rue this thy intercession, and that thou lettest them be long in thy )Tj T* (company.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter went Eric Bloodaxe and Thorir home to the Firths; then they sent word to Thorolf how their)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (errand to the king had sped. Thorolf and Bjorn were for that winter with Brynjolf. Many summers they)Tj T* (were out a-freebooting, but the winters they spent with Brynjolf, or sometimes with Thorir.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 542.6001 Tm (Chapter 37 - The journey to Bjarmaland.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 518.4001 Tm (Eric Bloodaxe now took a share in the realm. He held oversight in Hordaland and the Firths; he took)Tj T* (and kept about him a body-guard. And one spring Eric Bloodaxe made ready to go to Bjarmaland, and)Tj T* (chose him much people for that voyage. Thorolf betook him to this voyage with Eric, and was in the)Tj T* (forecastle of his ship, and bare his standard. Thorolf was then taller and stronger than other men, and)Tj T* (herein like his father. In that expedition befell much tidings. Eric had a great battle by the river Dvina)Tj T* (in Bjarmaland, wherein he won the victory, as is told in the lays about him. And in that voyage he took)Tj T* (Gunnhilda, daughter of Auzur Toti, and brought her home with him. Gunnhilda was above all women)Tj T* (beautiful and shrewd, and of magic cunning. There was great intimacy between Thorolf and)Tj T* (Gunnhilda. Thorolf ever spend the winters with Eric, the summers in freebooting. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The next tidings were that Thora Bjorn’s wife fell sick and died. But some while after Bjorn took to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (him another wife; she was named Alof, the daughter of Erling the wealthy of Ostr. They two had a)Tj T* (daughter named Gunnhilda.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (There was a man named Thorgeir Thornfoot; he dwelt in Fenhring of Hordaland, at a place called)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Askr. He had three sons - one named Hadd, another Bergonund, the third Atli the short. Bergonund)Tj T* (was beyond other men tall and strong, and he was grasping and ungentle; Atli the short was of small)Tj T* (stature, square-built, of sturdy strength. Thorgeir was a very rich man, a devoted heathen worshipper,)Tj T* (of magic cunning. Hadd went out freebooting, and was seldom at home.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 251.2001 Tm (Chapter 38 - Thorolf comes out to Iceland.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 227.0001 Tm (Thorolf Skallagrim’s son made him ready one summer for a trading voyage; he purposed what he also)Tj T* (performed, to go to Iceland and see his father. He had now been long abroad. By this he had got great)Tj T* (store of wealth and many costly things. When ready for the voyage, he went to king Eric. And at their)Tj T* (parting the king delivered to Thorolf an axe, which he said he wished to give to Skallagrim. The axe)Tj T* (was snag-horned, large, gold-mounted, the hilt overlaid with silver; it was most valuable and costly.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf went his way as soon as he was ready, and his voyage sped well; he came with his ship into)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Borgar-firth, and at once hastened home to his father. A right joyful meeting was theirs. Then)Tj T* (Skallagrim went down to Thorolf’s ship, and had it drawn up, and Thorolf went home to Borg with)Tj T* (twelve men. But when he came home, he gave Skallagrim King Eric’s greeting, and delivered to him)Tj T* (the axe which the king had sent him. Skallagrim took the axe and held it up, looked at it awhile, but)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 3632 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (said nothing. He fixed it up by his seat.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (It chanced one day in the autumn at Borg that Skallagrim had several oxen driven home which he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (meant to slaughter. Two of these he had led under the house-wall, and placed with heads crossing. He)Tj T* (took a large flat stone, and pushed it under their necks. Then he went near with the axe - the king’s gift)Tj T* (- and hewed at the oxen both at once, so that he took off the heads of the two. But the axe smote down)Tj T* (on the stone, so that the mouth broke, and was rent through all the tempered steel. Skallagrim looked)Tj T* (at the edge, said nothing, but went into the fire-hall, and, mounting to the wall-beam, thrust the axe up)Tj T* (among the rafters above the door. There it lay in the smoke all the winter.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But in the spring Thorolf declared that he meant to go abroad that summer. )Tj T* (Skallagrim forbade him, saying: ’’Tis good to drive home with your wain whole. You have,’ said he,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’gotten great honour by travel; but there is the old saw, "Many farings, many fortunes." Take you now)Tj T* (here as much share of the property as you think will make you a great man.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf said he would make yet one journey more. ’And I have,’ said he, ’an urgent errand for the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (journey. But when I come back next time I shall settle here. But Asgerdr, your foster-child, shall go)Tj T* (out with me to her father. This he bade me when I came west.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Skallagrim said Thorolf would have his way.)Tj T* (Thereafter Thorolf went to his ship, and put it in order. And when all was ready they moved the ship)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (out to Digra-ness, and it lay there waiting a wind. Then Asgerdr went to the ship with him. But before)Tj T* (Thorolf left Borg Skallagrim went and took down from the rafters over the door the axe, the king’s gift)Tj T* (- and came out with it. The haft was now black with smoke, and the blade rusted. Skallagrim looked at)Tj T* (the axe’s edge. Then he handed it to Thorolf, reciting this stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’The fierce would-wolf’s tooth-edge)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Hath flaws not a few,)Tj T* (An axe all deceitful,)Tj T* (A wood cleaver weak.)Tj T* (Begone! worthless weapon,)Tj T* (With shaft smoke-begrimed:)Tj T* (A prince ill-beseemed it)Tj T* (Such present to send.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 263.2001 Tm (Chapter 39 - Kettle Blund comes out to Iceland.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 239.0001 Tm (This had happened while Thorolf was away, that one summer a merchant-ship from Norway came into)Tj T* (Borgar-firth. Merchant-ships used then commonly to be drawn up into rivers, brook-mouths, or)Tj T* (ditches. This ship belonged to a man named Kettle, and by-named Blund; he was a Norwegian of)Tj T* (noble kin and wealthy. His son, named Geir, who was then of full age, was with him in the ship. Kettle)Tj T* (meant to make his home in Iceland; he came late in the summer. Skallagrim knew all about him, and)Tj T* (offered him lodging for himself and all his company. This Kettle took, and was with Skallagrim for the)Tj T* (winter. That winter Geir, Kettle’s son, asked to wife Thorunn, Skallagrim’s daughter, and the match)Tj T* (was made, and Geir took her.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Next spring Skallagrim showed Kettle to land above Oleif’s land, by White-river, from Flokadale-river)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (mouth to Reykjadale-river mouth, and all the tongue that lay between the rivers up to Redgill, and all)Tj T* (Flokadale above the slopes. Kettle dwelt at Thrandarholt; Geir at Geirs-lithe; he had another farm in)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 3578 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Reykjadale at Upper Reykir. He was called Geir the wealthy; his sons were Blund-Kettle and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorgeir-blund. A third was Hrisa-blund, who first dwelt at Hrisa.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 696.6 Tm (Chapter 40 - Of Egil’s and Skallagrim’s games.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 672.4 Tm (Skallagrim took much pleasure in trials of strength and games; he liked to talk about such. Ball-play)Tj T* (was then a common game. Plenty of strong men there were at that time in the neighbourhood, but not)Tj T* (one of strength to match with Skallagrim. He was now somewhat stricken in years. There was a man)Tj T* (named Thord, son of Grani, at Granastead, who was of great promise; he was then young; very fond he)Tj T* (was of Egil, Skallagrim’s son. Egil often engaged in wrestling; he was headstrong and hot-tempered,)Tj T* (but all had the sense to teach their sons to give way to Egil. A game of ball was held at)Tj T* (White-river-dale in the early winter, to which was a great gathering of people from all the)Tj T* (country-side. Thither went many of Skallagrim’s household to the game. Chief among them was)Tj T* (Thord, Grani’s son. Egil asked Thord to let him go with him to the game; he was then in his seventh)Tj T* (winter. Thord let him do so, and Egil mounted behind him. But when they came to the play-meeting,)Tj T* (then the men made up sides for the play. Many small boys had come there too, and they made up a)Tj T* (game for themselves. For this also sides were chosen.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil was matched to play against a boy named Grim, son of Hegg, of Hegg-stead. Grim was ten or)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (eleven years old, and strong for his age. But when they played together Egil got the worst of it. And)Tj T* (Grim made all he could of his advantage. Then Egil got angry and lifted up the bat and struck Grim,)Tj T* (whereupon Grim seized him and threw him down with a heavy fall, and handled him rather roughly,)Tj T* (and said he would thrash him if he did not behave. But when Egil got to his feet, he went out of the)Tj T* (game, and the boys hooted at him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil went to Thord and told him what had been done. Thord said:)Tj T* (’I will go with you, and we will be avenged on them.’)Tj T* (He gave into his hands a halberd that he had been carrying. Such weapons were then customary. They)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (went where the boys’ game was. Grim had now got the ball and was running away with it, and the)Tj T* (other boys after him. Then Egil bounded upon Grim, and drove the axe into his head, so that it at once)Tj T* (pierced his brain. After this Egil and Thord went away to their own people. The Myramen ran to their)Tj T* (weapons, and so did either party. Oleif Halt, with his following, ran to help the Borgarmen, who were)Tj T* (thus far the larger number, and they parted without doing more. But hence arose a quarrel between)Tj T* (Oleif and Hegg. They fought at Laxfit, by Grims-river; there seven men fell, but Hegg was wounded to)Tj T* (death, and his brother Kvig fell. But when Egil came home, Skallagrim said little about it; but Bera)Tj T* (said Egil had in him the makings of a freebooter, and that ’twould be well, so soon as he were old)Tj T* (enough, to give him a long-ship. Then Egil made a stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Thus counselled my mother,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (For me should they purchase)Tj T* (A galley and good oars)Tj T* (To go forth a-roving.)Tj T* (So may I high-standing,)Tj T* (A noble barque steering,)Tj T* (Hold course for the haven,)Tj T* (Hew down many foemen.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 125 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 127 0 obj << /Length 4141 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (When Egil was twelve years old, he was grown so big that there were but few men howso large and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (strong that he could not overcome in games. In his twelfth winter he was often at games. Thord)Tj T* (Grani’s son was then twenty years old; he was very strong. As the winter wore on, if often chanced)Tj T* (that the two, Egil and Thord, were matched against Skallagrim. And once in the winter it so befell that)Tj T* (there was ball-play at Borg, southwards in Sandvik. Thord and Egil were set against Skallagrim in the)Tj T* (game; and he became weary before them, so that they had the best of it. But in the evening after sunset)Tj T* (it began to go worse with Egil and his partner. Skallagrim then became so strong and he caught up)Tj T* (Thord and dashed him down so violently that he was all bruised and at once got his bane. Then he)Tj T* (seized Egil. Now there was a handmaid of Skallagrim’s named Thorgerdr Brak, who had nursed Egil)Tj T* (when a child; she was a big woman, strong as a man, and of magic cunning. Said Brak:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Dost thou turn they shape-strength, Skallagrim, against thy son?’)Tj T* (Whereat Skallagrim let Egil loose, but clutched at her. She broke away and took to her heels with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Skallagrim after her. So went they to the utmost point of Digra-ness. Then she leapt out from the rock)Tj T* (into the water. Skallagrim hurled after her a great stone, which struck her between the shoulders, and)Tj T* (neither ever came up again. The water there is now called Brakar-sound. But afterwards, in the)Tj T* (evening, when they came home to Borg, Egil was very angry. Skallagrim and everybody else were set)Tj T* (at table, but Egil had not yet come to his place. He went into the fire-hall, and up to the man who there)Tj T* (had the overseeing of work and the management of moneys for Skallagrim, and was most dear to him.)Tj T* (Egil dealt him his deathblow, then went to his seat. Skallagrim spoke not a word about it then, and)Tj T* (thenceforward the matter was kept quiet. But father and son exchanged no word good or bad, and so)Tj T* (that winter passed.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The next summer after this Thorolf came out, as was told above. And when he had been in Iceland one)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (winter, in the spring following he made ready his ship in Brakar-sound. But when he was quite ready,)Tj T* (then one day Egil went to his father, and asked him to give him an outfit.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I wish,’ said he, ’to go out with Thorolf.’)Tj T* (Skallagrim asked if he had spoken at all on that matter with Thorolf. Egil said he had not. Skallagrim)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (bade him do that first. But when Egil started the question with Thorolf, he said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’’Tis not likely that I shall take you abroad with me; if your father thinks he cannot manage you here)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (in his house, I have no confidence for this, to take you with me to foreign lands; for it will not do to)Tj T* (show there such temper as you do here.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Maybe,’ said Egil, ’neither of us will go.’)Tj T* (In the night came on a furious gale, a south-wester. But when it was dark, and now flood-tide, Egil)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (came where the ship lay. He went out on to the ship, and outside the tenting; he cut asunder the cables)Tj T* (that were on the seaward side; then, hurrying back to land by the bridge, he at once shot out the bridge,)Tj T* (and cut the cables that were upon land. Then the ship was driven out into the firth. But when Thorolf’s)Tj T* (men were aware that the ship was adrift, they jumped into the boat; but the wind was far too strong for)Tj T* (them to get anything done. The ship drifted over to Duck-kyle, and on the islands there; but Egil went)Tj T* (home to Borg.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when people got to know of the trick that Egil had played, the more part blamed it. Egil said he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (should before long do Thorolf more harm and mischief if he would not take him away. But then others)Tj T* (mediated between them, and the end was that Thorolf took Egil, and he went out with him that )Tj T* (summer.)Tj ET endstream endobj 128 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 130 0 obj << /Length 4041 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (When Thorolf came on shipboard, at once taking the axe which Skallagrim had given into his hands,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he cast it overboard into the deep so that it nevermore came up. Thorolf went his way in the summer,)Tj T* (and his voyage sped well, and they came out to Hordaland. He at once stood northwards to Sogn.)Tj T* (There it had happened in the winter that Brynjolf had fallen sick and died, and his sons had shared the)Tj T* (heritage. Thord had Aurland, the estate on which his father had dwelt. He had become a liege-man of)Tj T* (the king, and was made a baron. Thord’s daughter was named Rannveig, the mother of Thord and)Tj T* (Helgi, this Thord being father if Ingiridr whom king Olaf had to wife. Helgi was father of Brynjolf,)Tj T* (father of Serk, Sogn, and Svein.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 617.4 Tm (Chapter 41 - Of Bjorn.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 593.2 Tm (Bjorn got for his portion another good and valuable homestead. He did not become a liege-man of the)Tj T* (king, wherefore he was called Bjorn Yeoman. He was right wealthy, and a great man. No sooner did)Tj T* (Thorolf come off the sea then he went at once to Bjorn, and brought him Asgerdr his daughter. There)Tj T* (was a joyful meeting. Asgerdr was a most beautiful and accomplished woman, wise and right skilful.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf went to see king Eric. And when they met, Thorolf greeted Eric from Skallagrim, and said that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he had thankfully received the king’s gift. He then brought out a good long-ship’s sail, which he said)Tj T* (Skallagrim had sent to the king. King Eric received the gift well, and bade Thorolf be with him for the)Tj T* (winter. For this Thorolf thanked the king, but said: ’I must first go to Thorir; with him I have an urgent )Tj T* (errand.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorolf went to Thorir, as he had said, and met there a right hearty welcome. Thorir bade him be)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with him. This Thorolf said he would accept; ’and there is,’ said he, ’one with me who must have)Tj T* (lodging where I am; he is my brother, and he has never before been away from home, and he needs)Tj T* (that I look after him.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorir said that Thorolf had every right, if he would, to bring more men with him thither. ’Your)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brother, too,’ said he, ’we think, betters our company if he be at all like you.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorolf went to his ship, and had it drawn up and made snug, whereafter he and Egil went to lord)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorir. Thorir had a son named Arinbjorn, who was somewhat older than Egil. Arinbjorn early showed)Tj T* (himself a manly fellow and a doughty. With Arinbjorn Egil struck up a friendship, and was ever his)Tj T* (follower. But between the brothers was rather a coolness.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 277.6002 Tm (Chapter 42 - Thorolf asks Asgerdr to wife.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 253.4002 Tm (Thorolf Skallagrim’s son now sounded Thorir as to how he would take the matter should Thorolf ask)Tj T* (in marriage Asgerdr his kinswoman. Thorir welcomed this readily, saying that he would be his pleader)Tj T* (in this suit. Soon after Thorolf went north to Sogn with a goodly company. He came to Bjorn’s house,)Tj T* (and was well received there. Bjorn bade him be with him as long as he would. Thorolf speedily opened)Tj T* (to Bjorn his errand, and made his offer, asking Bjorn’s daughter Asgerdr to wife. This proposal Bjorn)Tj T* (took well, his consent was easily won; and it was settled that the betrothal should be there, and a day)Tj T* (was fixed for the wedding. The feast was to be at Bjorn’s in the autumn.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorolf went back to Thorir, and told him what had been done in his journey. Thorir was glad)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that the match was to be made. But when the time came that Thorolf should go to the feast, he bade)Tj T* (men to go with him. First bade he Thorir and Arinbjorn and their house-carles, and some rich yeoman;)Tj T* (and for the journey there was a large and goodly company.)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 3719 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (But when the appointed day was near at hand that Thorolf should leave home, and the bridesmen were)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (now come, then Egil fell sick, so that he could not go. Thorolf and his company had a large long-ship)Tj T* (well equipt, and went on their way as had been agreed.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 683.4 Tm (Chapter 43 - Of Aulvir and Egil.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 659.2 Tm (There was a man named Aulvir, a house-carle of Thorir’s, who was manager and bailiff over his)Tj T* (estate. He had the getting in of debts, and was treasurer. Aulvir was past his youth, but was still quite a)Tj T* (hale man. It so happened that Aulvir had to leave home to get in some rents of Thorir’s that had stood)Tj T* (over from the spring. He had a row-boat, on board which went twelve of Thorir’s house-carles. Just)Tj T* (then Egil began to recover, and rose from his bed. He thought it was dull work at home when)Tj T* (everybody was gone away. So he spoke with Aulvir, and said he would like to go with him. But Aulvir)Tj T* (thought one good comrade would not overload them, as there was enough ship-room. So Egil prepared)Tj T* (to go. He had his weapons, sword, halberd, and buckler.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They went their way when they were ready. They had the wind blowing hard against them, and sharp)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (gale and troublesome; but they pursued their journey vigorously, taking to their oars. And their)Tj T* (progress was such, that on the evening of a day they came to Atla-isle, and there put in to land. In this)Tj T* (island, not far up from the shore, was a large farm belonging to king Eric. The overlooker thereof was)Tj T* (a man named Bard. He was called Bard of Atla-isle, and was a good business man and worker; not of)Tj T* (high birth, but much prized by the king and Gunnhilda.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Aulvir and his men drew up their ship beyond flood-tide mark. They then went to the farm buildings,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and found Bard outside, and told him of their journey, and withal that they would fain be there for the)Tj T* (night. Bard saw that they were very wet, and led them to a fire-hall that stood apart from the other)Tj T* (buildings. There he had a large fire made for them, at which their clothes were dried. When they had)Tj T* (put them on again, Bard came in. ’Now will we,’ said he, ’set you a table here. I know you will be glad)Tj T* (to sleep; you are weary from your wetting.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Aulvir liked that well. Soon the table was set, and food given them, bread and butter and large bowls)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of curds set forth. Bard said: ’Right sorry am I that there is no ale in the house, that I might receive you)Tj T* (as I would; you will have to make out with what there is.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Aulvir and his folk were very thirsty, and drank up the curds. Then Bard had oat-drink brought in, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they drank that. ’I should like,’ said Bard, ’to give you better drink if I had any.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (There was no lack of straw in the room. Then he bade them lie down to sleep.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 240.2002 Tm (Chapter 44 - The slaying of Bard.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 216.0002 Tm (King Eric and queen Gunnhilda came that same evening to Atla-isle, and Bard had prepared there a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (banquet for the king; and there was to be there a sacrifice to the guardian spirits. Sumptuous was the)Tj T* (banquet, and great the drinking within the hall.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Where is Bard?’ asked the king; ’I see him not.’)Tj T* (Someone said: ’Bard is outside supplying his guests.’)Tj T* (’Who be these guests,’ said the king, ’that he deemeth this more a duty than to be here within waiting)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (on us?’)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 3051 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The man said that some house-carles of lord Thorir were come thither.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king said: ’Go after them at once, and call them in hither.’)Tj T* (And so it was done, with the message that the king would fain see them.)Tj T* (Whereupon they came. The king received Aulvir well, and bade him sit in the high-seat facing)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (himself, and his comrades outside him. They did so, Egil sitting next to Aulvir. Ale was then served to)Tj T* (them to drink. Many toasts went round, and a horn should be drunk to each toast. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But as the evening wore on, many of Aulvir’s companions became helpless. Some remained in the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (room, though sick, some went out of doors. Bard busily plied them with drink. Then Egil took the horn)Tj T* (which Bard had offered to Aulvir, and drank it off. Bard said that Egil was very thirsty, and brought)Tj T* (him at once the horn again filled, and bade him drink it off. Egil took the horn, and recited a stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Wizard-worshipper of cairns!)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Want of ale thou couldst allege,)Tj T* (Here at spirits’ holy feast.)Tj T* (False deceiver thee I find.)Tj T* (Stranger guests thou didst beguile,)Tj T* (Cloaking thus thy churlish greed.)Tj T* (Bard, a niggard base art thou,)Tj T* (Treacherous trick on such to play.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bard bade him drink and stop that jeering. Egil drained every cup that came to him, drinking for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Aulvir likewise. Then Bard went to the queen and told her there was a man there who put shame on)Tj T* (them, for, howsoever much he drank, he still said he was thirsty. The queen and Bard then mixed the)Tj T* (drink with poison, and bare it in. Bard consecrated the cup, then gave it to the ale-maid. She carried it)Tj T* (to Egil, and bade him drink. Egil then drew his knife and pricked the palm of his hand. He took the)Tj T* (horn, scratched runes thereon, and smeared blood in them. He sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Write we runes around the horn,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Redden all the spell with blood;)Tj T* (Wise words choose I for the cup)Tj T* (Wrought from branching horn of beast.)Tj T* (Drink we then, as drink we will,)Tj T* (Draught that cheerful bearer brings,)Tj T* (Learn that health abides in ale,)Tj T* (Holy ale that Bard hath bless’d.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The horn burst asunder in the midst, and the drink was spilt on the straw below. Then Aulvir began to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (be faint. So Egil stood up, took Aulvir by the hand, and led him to the door. Egil shifted his cloak to)Tj T* (his left side, and under the mantle held his sword. But when they came to the door, then came Bard)Tj T* (after them with a full horn, and bade them drink a farewell cup. Egil stood in the door. He took the)Tj T* (horn and drank it off; then recited a stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Ale is borne to me, for ale)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Aulvir now maketh pale.)Tj T* (From ox-horn I let pour)Tj T* (’Twixt my lips the shower.)Tj T* (But blind they fate to see)Tj T* (Blows thou bring’st on thee:)Tj ET endstream endobj 138 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 140 0 obj << /Length 4070 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Full soon from Odin’s thane)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Feel’st thou deadly rain.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (With that Egil threw down the horn, but gripped his sword and drew; it was dark in the room. He)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thrust Bard right through the middle with the sword, so that the point went out at the back. Bard fell)Tj T* (dead, the blood welling from the wound. Aulvir fell too, vomiting. Then Egil dashed out of the room;)Tj T* (it was pitch dark outside. Egil at once ran off from the buildings. But in the entrance-room it was now)Tj T* (seen that Bard and Aulvir were fallen.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then came the king, and bade them bring light; whereupon they saw what had happened, that Aulvir)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (lay there senseless; but Bard was slain, and the floor all streaming with blood. Then the king asked)Tj T* (where was that big man who had drunk most that evening. Men said that he had gone out.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Seek him,’ said the king, ’and bring him to me.’)Tj T* (Search was made for him round the premises, but nowhere was he found. But when they came to the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (detached fire-hall, there lay Aulvir’s comrades. The king’s men asked if Egil had come there at all.)Tj T* (They said that he had run in, taken his weapons, and so out again.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (This was told to the king. The king bade his men go with all speed and seize every ship or boat on the )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (island.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’But in the morning,’ said he, ’when it is light, we must search all the island and slay the man.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 432.6001 Tm (Chapter 45 - Flight of Egil.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 408.4001 Tm (Egil went in the night and sought the places where boats were. But wheresoever he came to the strand,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (men were always there before him. He went thus through the whole night, and found never a boat. But)Tj T* (when day dawned, he was standing on a certain ness. He saw then another island, and between him)Tj T* (and it lay a very wide sound. This was then his counsel: he took helmet, sword, and spear, breaking off)Tj T* (the spear-shaft and casting it out into the sea; but the weapons he wrapped round in his cloak and made)Tj T* (thereof a bundle which he bound on his back. Then he plunged into the water, nor stayed his)Tj T* (swimming till he came to the island. It was called Sheppey; it was an island of no great size covered)Tj T* (with brushwood. There were cattle on it, both sheep and oxen, belonging to Atla-isle. But when he)Tj T* (came to the island, he wrung his clothes dry. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (By this time it was broad daylight, and the sun was risen. King Eric had Atla-island well searched as)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (soon as it was light; this took some time, the island being large, and Egil was not found. Then the king)Tj T* (made them row to other islands and seek him. It was evening when twelve men rowed to Sheppey.)Tj T* (They were to look for Egil, and had also to bring from thence some cattle for slaughter. Egil saw the)Tj T* (boat coming to the island; he then lay down and hid himself in the brushwood before the boat came to)Tj T* (land. They left three men behind with the boat; but nine went up, and they separated into three search)Tj T* (parties, with three in each. But when a rise in the ground was between them and the boat, then Egil)Tj T* (stood up \(having before got his weapons ready\), and made straight across for the sea, and then along)Tj T* (the shore. They who guarded the boat were not aware of it till Egil was upon them. He at once smote)Tj T* (one with a death-blow; but another took to his heels, and he had to leap up something of a bank. Egil)Tj T* (followed him with a blow cutting off his foot. The third man leapt out into the boat, and pushed off)Tj T* (with the pole. Egil drew the boat to him with the rope, and leapt out into it. Few blows were)Tj T* (exchanged ere Egil slew him, and pushed him overboard. Then he took oars and rowed the boat away.)Tj T* (He went all that night and the day after, nor stayed till he came to lord Thorir’s.)Tj ET endstream endobj 141 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 143 0 obj << /Length 3905 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (As for Aulvir and his comrades, the king let them go in peace, as guiltless in this matter.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But the men who were in Sheppey were there for many nights, and killed cattle for food, and made a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (fire and cooked them, and piled a large fuel-heap on the side of the island looking towards Atla-isle,)Tj T* (and set fire thereto, and let folk know their plight. When that was seen, men rowed out to them, and)Tj T* (brought to land those who yet lived.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king was by this time gone away; he went to another banquet.)Tj T* (But of Aulvir there is this to be told, that he reached home before Egil, and Thorolf and Thorir had)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (come home even before that. Aulvir told the tidings, the slaying of Bard and the rest that had there)Tj T* (befallen, but of Egil’s goings since he knew nothing. Thorolf was much grieved hereat, as also was)Tj T* (Arinbjorn; they thought that Egil would return nevermore. But the next morning Egil came home.)Tj T* (Which when Thorolf knew, he rose up and went out to meet him, and asked in what way he had)Tj T* (escaped, and what tidings had befallen in his journey. Then Egil recited this stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’From Norway king’s keeping,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (From craft of Gunnhilda,)Tj T* (So I freed me \(nor flaunt I The feat overbold\),)Tj T* (That three, whom but I wot not,)Tj T* (The warrior king’s liege-men,)Tj T* (Lie dead, to the high hall)Tj T* (Of Hela downsped.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn spoke well of this work, and said to his father that he would be bound to atone Egil with the )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorir said, ’It will be the common verdict that Bard got his desert in being slain; yet hath Egil)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (wrought too much after the way of his kin, in looking little before him and braving a king’s wrath,)Tj T* (which most men find a heavy burden. However, I will atone you, Egil, with the king for this time.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorir went to find the king, but Arinbjorn remained at home and declared that one lot should befall)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (them all. But when Thorir came to the king, he offered terms for Egil, his own bail, while the king)Tj T* (should doom the fine. King Eric was very wroth, and it was hard to come to speech with him; he said)Tj T* (that what his father had said would prove true - that family would never be trustworthy. He bade)Tj T* (Thorir arrange it thus: ’Though I accept some atonement, Egil shall not be long harboured in my)Tj T* (realm. But for the sake of thy intercession, Thorir, I will take a money fine for this man.’ The king)Tj T* (fixed such fine as he thought fit; Thorir paid it all and went home. )Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 236.8003 Tm (Chapter 46 - Of Thorolf’s and Egil’s harrying.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 212.6003 Tm (Thorolf and Egil stayed that winter with Thorir, and were made much of. But in spring they got ready)Tj T* (a large war-ship and gathered men thereto, and in summer they went the eastern way and harried; there)Tj T* (won they much wealth and had many battles. They held on even to Courland, and made a peace for)Tj T* (half a month with the men of the land and traded with them. But when this was ended, then they took)Tj T* (to harrying, and put in at divers places. One day they put in at the mouth of a large river, where was an)Tj T* (extensive forest upon land. They resolved to go up the country, dividing their force into companies of)Tj T* (twelve. They went through the wood, and it was not long before they came to peopled parts. There)Tj T* (they plundered and slew men, but the people fled, till at last there was no resistance. But as the day)Tj T* (wore on, Thorolf had the blast sounded to recall his men down to the shore. Then each turned back)Tj T* (from where they were into the wood. But when Thorolf mustered his force, Egil and his company had)Tj ET endstream endobj 144 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 146 0 obj << /Length 4171 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (not come down; and the darkness of night was closing in, so that they could not, as they thought, look)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (for him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Egil and his twelve had gone through a wood and then saw wide plains and tillage. Hard by them)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (stood a house. For this they made, and when they came there they ran into the house, but could see no)Tj T* (one there. They took all the loose chattels that they came upon. There were many rooms, so this took)Tj T* (them a long time. But when they came out and away from the house, an armed force was there)Tj T* (between them and the wood, and this attacked them. High palings ran from the house to the wood; to)Tj T* (these Egil bade them keep close, that they might not be come at from all sides. They did so. Egil went)Tj T* (first, then the rest, one behind the other, so near that none could come between.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The Courlanders attacked them vigorously, but mostly with spears and javelins, not coming to close)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (quarters. Egil’s party going forward along the fence did not find out till too late that another line of)Tj T* (palings ran along on the other side, the space between narrowing till there was a bend and all progress)Tj T* (barred. The Courlanders pursued after them into this pen, while some set on them from without,)Tj T* (thrusting javelins and swords through the palings, while others cast clothes on their weapons. Egil’s)Tj T* (party were wounded, and after that taken, and all bound, and so brought home to the farmhouse.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The owner of that farm was a powerful and wealthy man; he had a son grown up. Now they debated)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (what they should do with their prisoners. The goodman said that he thought this were best counsel, to)Tj T* (kill them one on the heels of another. His son said that the darkness of night was now closing in, and)Tj T* (no sport was thus gotten by their torture; he bade them be let bide till the morning. So they were thrust)Tj T* (into a room and strongly bound. Egil was bound hand and foot to a post. Then the room was strongly)Tj T* (locked, and the Courlanders went into the dining-hall, ate, drank, and were merry.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil strained and worked at the post till he loosed it up from the floor. Then the post fell, and Egil)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (slipped himself off it. Next he loosed his hands with his teeth. But when his hands were loose, he)Tj T* (loosed therewith the bonds from his feet. And then he freed his comrades; but when they were all)Tj T* (loosed they searched round for the likeliest place to get out. The room was made with walls of large)Tj T* (wooden beams, but at one end thereof was a smooth planking. At this they dashed and broke it)Tj T* (through. They had now come into another room; this too had walls of wooden beams. Then they heard)Tj T* (men’s voices below under their feet. Searching about they found a trapdoor in the floor, which they)Tj T* (opened. Thereunder was a deep vault; down in it they heard men’s voices. Then asked Egil what men)Tj T* (were these. He who answered named himself Aki. Would he like to come up, asked Egil. Aki)Tj T* (answered, they would like it much.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil and his comrades lowered into the vault the rope with which they had been bound, and drew)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (up thence three men. Aki said that these were his two sons, and they were Danes, who had been made)Tj T* (prisoners of war last summer.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I was,’ he said, ’well treated through the winter, and had the chief care of the goodman’s property; but)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the lads were enslaved and had a hard lot. In spring we made up our minds to run away, but were)Tj T* (retaken. Then we were cast into this vault.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’You must know all about the plan of this house,’ said Egil; ’where have we the best hope to get out?’)Tj T* (Aki said that there was another plank partition: ’Break you up that, you will then come into a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (corn-store, whereout you may go as you will.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil’s men did so; they broke up the planking, came into the granary, and thence out. It was pitch dark.)Tj ET endstream endobj 147 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 149 0 obj << /Length 3934 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Then said Egil’s comrades that they should hasten to the wood. But Egil said to Aki, ’If you know the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (house here, you can show us the way to some plunder.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Aki said there was no lack of chattels. ’Here is a large loft in which the goodman sleeps; therein is no)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (stint of weapons.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil bade them go to that loft. But when they came to the staircase head they saw that the loft was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (open. A light was inside, and servants, who were making the beds. Egil bade some stay outside and)Tj T* (watch that none came out. Egil ran into the loft, seized weapons, of which there was no lack. They)Tj T* (slew all the men that were in there, and they armed themselves fully. Aki went to a trapdoor in the)Tj T* (floor and opened it, telling them that they should go down by this to the store-room below. They got a)Tj T* (light and went thither. It was the goodman’s treasury; there were many costly things, and much silver.)Tj T* (There the men took them each a load and carried it out. Egil took under his arm a large mead-cask, and)Tj T* (bare it so.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when they came to the wood, then Egil stopped, and he said:)Tj T* (’This our going is all wrong, and not warlike. We have stolen the goodman’s property without his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (knowing thereof. Never ought that shame to be ours. Go we back to the house, and let him know what)Tj T* (hath befallen.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (All spoke against that, saying they would make for the ship.)Tj T* (Egil set down the mead-cask, then ran off, and sped him to the house. But when he came there, he saw)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that serving-lads were coming out of the kitchen with dishes and bearing them to the dining-hall. In the)Tj T* (kitchen \(he saw\) was a large fire and kettles thereon. Thither he went. Great beams had been brought)Tj T* (home and lighted, as was the custom there, by setting fire to the beam-end and so burning it)Tj T* (lengthwise. Egil seized a beam, carried it to the dining-hall, and thrust the burning end under the)Tj T* (eaves, and so into the birch bark of the roof, which soon caught fire. Some fagot-wood lay hard by;)Tj T* (this Egil brought and piled before the hall-door. This quickly caught fire. But those who sate drinking)Tj T* (within did not find it out till the flame burst in round the roof. Then they rushed to the door; but there)Tj T* (was no easy way out, both by reason of the fagot-wood, and because Egil kept the door, and slew most)Tj T* (who strove to pass out either in the doorway or outside.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The goodman asked who had the care of the fire.)Tj T* (Egil answered, ’He has now the care of the fire whom you yester-even had thought least likely; nor)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (will you wish to bake you hotter than I shall kindle; you shall have soft bath before soft bed, such as)Tj T* (you meant to give to me and my comrades. Here now is that same Egil whom you bound hand and)Tj T* (foot to the post in that room you shut so carefully. I will repay you your hospitality as you deserve.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At this the goodman thought to steal out in the dark, but Egil was near, and dealt him his death-blow,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (as he did to many others. Brief moment was it ere the hall so burned that it fell in. Most of those who)Tj T* (were within perished.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But Egil went back to the wood, where he found his comrades, and they all went together to the ship.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Egil said he would have the mead-cask which he carried as his own special prize; it proved to be full)Tj T* (of silver. Thorolf and his men were overjoyed when Egil came down. They put out from land as soon)Tj T* (as day dawned; Aki and his two sons were with Egil’s following. They sailed in the summer, now far)Tj T* (spent, to Denmark, where they lay in wait for merchant-ships, and plundered when they got the )Tj T* (chance.)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 3983 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 47 - Of the further harrying of Thorolf and Egil.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (Harold Gormsson had then taken the kingdom in Denmark, his father Gorm being now dead. The land)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was then open to harrying; freebooters often lay off the Danish coast. Aki knew Denmark well both by)Tj T* (sea and land. So Egil inquired of him diligently where the places were that promised good booty. But)Tj T* (when they came to Eyrar-sound, then Aki said that up on land there was a large trading town named)Tj T* (Lundr; there, he said, was hope of plunder, but ’twas likely that the townsmen would make resistance.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The question was put before the men whether they should go up or not. Opinions were much divided,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (some liking, some letting it; then the matter was referred to the leaders. Thorolf was rather for going)Tj T* (up. Then Egil was asked what counsel he thought good. He recited a stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Wolf-battening warrior,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Wield we high gleaming swords.)Tj T* (In snake-fostering summer)Tj T* (Such deeds well beseem.)Tj T* (Lead up to Lundr:)Tj T* (Let laggards be none!)Tj T* (Spear-music ungentle)Tj T* (By sunset shall sound.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that they made them ready to go up, and they came to the town. But when the townsmen were)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (aware of the enemy’s coming, they made against them. A wooden wall was round the town; they set)Tj T* (men to guard this. A very fierce battle was there fought. Egil, with his following, charged fiercely on)Tj T* (the gate nor spared himself. There was a great slaughter, the townsmen falling one upon another. It is)Tj T* (said that Egil first entered the town, the others following. Then those of the town fled, and great was)Tj T* (the slaughter. But Thorolf and his company plundered the town and took much wealth, and fired the)Tj T* (buildings before they left. Then they went down to their ships.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 355.0002 Tm (Chapter 48 - Of the banquet at earl Arnfid’s.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 330.8002 Tm (Thorolf stood northwards with his force past Holland, and they put into a harbour there, as the wind)Tj T* (drove them back. They did not plunder there. A little way up the country dwelt an earl named Arnfid.)Tj T* (But when he heard that freebooters had come to land there, he sent his men to meet them with this)Tj T* (errand, to know whether they wished for peace or war. Upon the messengers’ coming to Thorolf with)Tj T* (their errand, he said that they would not harry there, that there was no need to harry there or come with)Tj T* (warshield, the land being not wealthy. The messengers went back to the earl, and told him the issue of)Tj T* (their errand: but when the earl knew that he need not gather men for this cause, then he rode down)Tj T* (without any armed force to meet the freebooters. When they met, all went well at the conference. The)Tj T* (earl bade Thorolf to a banquet with him, and as many of his men as he would. Thorolf promised to go.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (On the appointed day the earl had riding-horses sent down to meet them. Thorolf and Egil went, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they had thirty men with them. When they came to the earl, he received them well; they were led into)Tj T* (the dining-hall. At once beer was brought in and given them to drink. They sate there till evening.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But before the tables were removed the earl said that they should cast lots to drink together in pairs,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (man and woman, so far as numbers would allow, but the odd ones by themselves. They cast then their)Tj T* (lots into the skirt of a cloak, and the earl drew them out. The earl had a very beautiful daughter then in)Tj T* (the flower of youth; the lot decreed that Egil should sit by her for the evening. She was going about the)Tj T* (floor of the hall amusing herself. Egil stood up and went to the place in which the earl’s daughter had)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 3124 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (sat during the day. But when all took their several seats, then the earl’s daughter went to her place. She)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (said in verse:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Why sittest in my seat, youth?)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thou seldom sure hast given)Tj T* (To wolf his warm flesh-banquet.)Tj T* (Alone I will mine own.)Tj T* (O’er carrion course thou heard’st not)Tj T* (Croak hoarse the joying raven,)Tj T* (Nor wentest where sword-edges)Tj T* (In warfare madly met.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil took her, and set her down by him. He sang:)Tj T* (’With bloody brand on-striding)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Me bird of bane hath followed:)Tj T* (My hurtling spear hath sounded)Tj T* (In the swift Vikings’ charge.)Tj T* (Raged wrathfully our battle,)Tj T* (Ran fire o’er foemen’s rooftrees;)Tj T* (Sound sleepeth many a warrior)Tj T* (Slain in the city gate.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They two then drank together for the evening, and were right merry. The banquet was of the best, on)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that day and on the morrow. Then the rovers went to their ships, they and the earl parting in friendship)Tj T* (with exchange of gifts. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf with his force then stood for the Brenn-islands. At that time these were a great lair of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (freebooters, because through the islands sailed many merchant-ships. Aki went home to his farms, and)Tj T* (his sons with him. He was a very wealthy man, owning several farms in Jutland. He and Thorolf)Tj T* (parted with affection, and pledged them to close friendship. But as autumn came on, Thorolf and his)Tj T* (men sailed northward along the Norway coast till they reached the Firths, then went to lord Thorir.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He received them well, but Arinbjorn his son much better, who asked Egil to be there for the winter.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Egil took this offer with thanks. But when Thorir knew of Arinbjorn’s offer, he called it rather a hasty)Tj T* (speech. ’I know not,’ said he, ’how king Eric may like that; for after the slaying of Bard he said that he)Tj T* (would not have Egil be here in the land.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’You, father, can easily manage this with the king,’ said Arinbjorn, ’so that he will not blame Egil’s)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (stay. You will ask Thorolf, your niece’s husband, to be here; I and Egil will have one winter home.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorir saw from this talk that Arinbjorn would have his way in this. So father and son offered Thorolf)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (winter-home there, which he accepted. They were there through the winter with twelve men.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Two brothers there were named Thorvald Proud and Thorfid Strong, near kinsmen of Bjorn Yeoman,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and brought up with him. Tall men they were and strong, of much energy and forward daring. They)Tj T* (followed Bjorn so long as he went out roving; but when he settled down in quiet, then these brothers)Tj T* (went to Thorolf, and were with him in his harrying; they were forecastle men in his ship. And when)Tj T* (Egil took command of a ship, then Thorfid was his forecastle man. These brothers followed Thorolf)Tj T* (throughout, and he valued them most of his crew.)Tj ET endstream endobj 156 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 158 0 obj << /Length 3690 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (They were of his company this winter, and sate next to the two brothers. Thorolf sate in the high seat)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (over against Thorir, and drank with him; Egil sate as cup-mate over against Arinbjorn. At all toasts the)Tj T* (cup must cross the floor.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Lord Thorir went in the autumn to king Eric. The king received him exceedingly well. But when they)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (began to talk together, Thorir begged the king not to take it amiss that he had Egil with him that)Tj T* (winter. The king answered this well; he said that Thorir might get from him what he would, but it)Tj T* (should not have been so had any other man harboured Egil. But when Gunnhilda heard what they were)Tj T* (talking of, then said she: ’This I think, Eric, that ’tis now going again as it has gone often before; thou)Tj T* (lendest easy ear to talk, nor bearest long in mind the ill that is done thee. And now thou wilt bring)Tj T* (forward the sons of Skallagrim to this, that they will yet again smite down some of thy near kin. But)Tj T* (though thou mayest choose to think Bard’s slaying of no account, I think not so.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king answered: ’Thou, Gunnhilda, more than others provokest me to savageness; yet time was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (when thou wert on better terms with Thorolf than now. However I will not take back my word about)Tj T* (those brothers.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Thorolf was well here,’ said she, ’before Egil made him bad; but now I reckon no odds between )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (them.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorir went home when he was ready, and told the brothers the words of the king and of the queen.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 454.6001 Tm (Chapter 49 - Slaying of Thorvald Proud.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 430.4001 Tm (Eyvind Skreyja and Alf were the names of two brothers of Gunnhilda, sons of Auzur Toti. They were)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (tall and strong, and great traders. They were then made much of by king Eric and Gunnhilda. Not)Tj T* (generally liked were they; at this time they were young, but fully grown to manhood. It so befell in the)Tj T* (spring that a great sacrifice was fixed to be held in the summer at Gaular. Here was the most renowned)Tj T* (chief temple. Thither flocked numbers from the firths and from the fells, and from Sogn, and almost all)Tj T* (the great men. King Eric went thither. Then spoke Gunnhilda with her brothers: ’I would fain that you)Tj T* (two should so manage matters in this crowded gathering, that ye get to slay one of the two sons of)Tj T* (Skallagrim, or, better still, both.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They said it should be done.)Tj T* (Lord Thorir made ready to go thither. He called Arinbjorn to speak with him. ’Now will I,’ said he,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’go to the sacrifice, but I will not that Egil go thither. I know the craft of Gunnhilda, the vehemence of)Tj T* (Egil, the power of the king; no easy task were it to watch these all at once. But Egil will not let himself)Tj T* (be hindered, unless you stay behind. Now Thorolf and the rest of his company shall go with me;)Tj T* (Thorolf shall sacrifice and pray for happiness for his brother as well as himself.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Whereupon Arinbjorn told Egil that he meant to stay at home; ’and you shall be with me,’ said he.)Tj T* (Egil agreed that it should be so.)Tj T* (But Thorir and the rest went to sacrifice, and a very great multitude was there, and there was much)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (drinking. Thorolf went with Thorir wheresoever he went, and they never were apart day or night.)Tj T* (Eyvind told Gunnhilda that he could get no chance at Thorolf. She bade him then slay some one of)Tj T* (Thorolf’s men rather than let everything fail. )Tj ET endstream endobj 159 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 161 0 obj << /Length 3753 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (It chanced one evening, when the king had gone to rest, as had also Thorir and Thorolf, but Thorfid)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and Thorvald still sate up, that the two brothers Eyvind and Alf came and sat down by them, and were)Tj T* (very merry. First they drank as one drinking-party; but presently it came to this, that each should drink)Tj T* (half a horn, Eyvind and Thorvald being paired together to drink, and Alf and Thorfid.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now as the evening wore on there was unfair drinking; next followed bandying of words, then)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (insulting language. Then Eyvind jumped up, drew a sword, and thrust at Thorvald, dealing him a)Tj T* (wound that was his death. Whereupon up jumped on either side the king’s men and Thorir’s)Tj T* (house-carles. But men were all weaponless in there, because it was sanctuary. Men went between and)Tj T* (parted them who were most furious; nor did anything more happen that evening.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Eyvind had slain a man on holy ground; he was therefore made accursed, and had to go abroad at)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (once. The king offered a fine for the man; but Thorolf and Thorfid said they never had taken man-fine,)Tj T* (and would not take this. With that they parted. Thorir and his company went home. King Eric and)Tj T* (Gunnhilda sent Eyvind south to Denmark to king Harold Gormsson, for he might not now abide on)Tj T* (Norwegian soil. The king received him and his comrades well: Eyvind brought to Denmark a large)Tj T* (war-ship. He then appointed Eyvind to be his coastguard there against freebooters, for Eyvind was a)Tj T* (right good warrior.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the spring following that winter Thorolf and Egil made them ready to go again a-freebooting. And)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (when ready, they again stood for the eastern way. But when they came to Vik, they sailed then south)Tj T* (along Jutland, and harried there; then went to Friesland, where they stayed for a great part of the)Tj T* (summer; but then stood back for Denmark. But when they came to the borderland where Denmark and)Tj T* (Friesland meet, and lay by the land there, so it was that one evening when they on shipboard were)Tj T* (preparing for sleep, two men came to Egil’s ship, and said they had an errand to him. They were)Tj T* (brought before him. They said that Aki the wealthy had sent them thither with this message: ’Eyvind)Tj T* (Skreyja is lying out off Jutland-side, and thinks to waylay you as you come from the south. And he has)Tj T* (gathered such large force as ye cannot withstand if ye encounter it all at once; but he himself goes with)Tj T* (two light vessels, and he is even now here close by you.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when these tidings came before Egil, at once he and his took down their tenting. He bade them go)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (silently; they did so. They came at dawn to where Eyvind and his men lay at anchor; they set upon)Tj T* (them at once, hurling both stones and spears. Many of Eyvind’s force fell there; but he himself leapt)Tj T* (overboard and got to land by swimming, as did all those of his men who escaped. But Egil took his)Tj T* (ships, cargo, and weapons.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They went back that day to their own company, and met Thorolf. He asked wither Egil had gone, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (where he had gotten those ships with which they came. Egil said that Eyvind Skreyja had had the)Tj T* (ships, but they had taken them from him. Then sang Egil:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’In struggle sternly hard)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (We strove off Jutland-side:)Tj T* (Well did the warrior fight,)Tj T* (Warder of Denmark’s realm.)Tj T* (Till, with his wights o’erborne,)Tj T* (Eastwards from wave-horse high)Tj T* (To swim and seek the sand)Tj T* (Swift Eyvind Skreyja leapt.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 162 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 165 0 obj << /Length 4056 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Thorolf said: ’Herein ye have so wrought, methinks, that it will not serve us as our autumn plan to go)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to Norway.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said it was quite as well, though they should seek some other place.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 672.4 Tm (Chapter 50 - Of Athelstan king of the English.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 648.2001 Tm (Alfred the Great ruled England, being of his family the first supreme king over England. That was in)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the days of Harold Fairhair, king of Norway. After Alfred, Edward his son was king in England. He)Tj T* (was father of Athelstan the Victorious, who was foster-father of Hacon the Good. It was at this time of)Tj T* (our story that Athelstan took the kingdom after his father. There were several brothers sons of Edward.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Athelstan had taken the kingdom, then those chieftains who had before lost their power to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (his forefathers rose in rebellion; now they thought was the easiest time to claim back their own, when)Tj T* (a young king ruled the realm. These were Britons, Scots, and Irish. King Athelstan therefore gathered)Tj T* (him an army, and gave pay to all such as wished to enrich themselves, both foreigners and natives.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The brothers Thorolf and Egil were standing southwards along Saxony and Flanders, when they heard)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that the king of England wanted men, and that there was in his service hope of much gain. So they)Tj T* (resolved to take their force thither. And they went on that autumn till they came to king Athelstan. He)Tj T* (received them well; he saw plainly that such followers would be a great help. Full soon did the English)Tj T* (king decide to ask them to join him, to take pay there, and become defenders of his land. They so)Tj T* (agreed between them that they became king Athelstan’s men.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (England was thoroughly Christian in faith, and had long been so, when these things happened. King)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Athelstan was a good Christian; he was called Athelstan the Faithful. The king asked Thorolf and his)Tj T* (brother to consent to take the first signing with the cross, for this was then a common custom both with)Tj T* (merchants and those who took soldiers’ pay in Christian armies, since those who were ’prime-signed’)Tj T* (\(as ’twas termed\) could hold all intercourse with Christians and heathens alike, while retaining the)Tj T* (faith which was most to their mind. Thorolf and Egil did this at the king’s request, and both let)Tj T* (themselves be prime-signed. They had three hundred men with them who took the king’s pay.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 317.2002 Tm (Chapter 51 - Of Olaf king of Scots.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 293.0002 Tm (Olaf the Red was the name of the king in Scotland. He was Scotch on his father’s side, but Danish on)Tj T* (his mother’s side, and came of the family of Ragnar Hairy-breeks. He was a powerful prince. Scotland,)Tj T* (as compared with England, was reckoned a third of the realm; Northumberland was reckoned a fifth)Tj T* (part of England; it was the northernmost county, marching with Scotland on the eastern side of the)Tj T* (island. Formerly the Danish kings had held it. Its chief town is York. It was in Athelstan’s dominions;)Tj T* (he had set over it two earls, the one named Alfgeir, the other Gudrek. They were set there as defenders)Tj T* (of the land against the inroads of Scots, Danes, and Norsemen, who harried the land much, and though)Tj T* (they had a strong claim on the land there, because in Northumberland nearly all the inhabitants were)Tj T* (Danish by the father’s or mother’s side, and many by both.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bretland was governed by two brothers, Hring and Adils; they were tributaries under king Athelstan,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and withal had this right, that when they were with the king in the field, they and their force should be)Tj T* (in the van of the battle before the royal standard. These brothers were right good warriors, but not)Tj T* (young men.)Tj ET endstream endobj 166 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 168 0 obj << /Length 3917 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Alfred the Great had deprived all tributary kings of name and power; they were now called earls, who)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had before been kings or princes. This was maintained throughout his lifetime and his son Edward’s.)Tj T* (But Athelstan came young to the kingdom, and of him they stood less in awe. Wherefore many now)Tj T* (were disloyal who had before been faithful subjects.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 670.2 Tm (Chapter 52 - Of the gathering of the host.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 646 Tm (Olaf king of Scots, drew together a mighty host, and marched upon England. When he came to)Tj T* (Northumberland, he advanced with shield of war. On learning this, the earls who ruled there mustered)Tj T* (their force and went against the king. And when they met there was a great battle, whereof the issue)Tj T* (was that king Olaf won the victory, but earl Gudrek fell, and Alfgeir fled away, as did the greater part)Tj T* (of the force that had followed them and escaped from the field. And now king Olaf found no further)Tj T* (resistance, but subdued all Northumberland.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Alfgeir went to king Athelstan, and told him of his defeat. But as soon as king Athelstan heard that so)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (mighty a host was come into his land, he despatched men and summoned forces, sending word to his)Tj T* (earls and other nobles. And with such force as he had he at once turned him and marched against the)Tj T* (Scots. But when it was bruited about that Olaf king of Scots had won a victory and subdued under him)Tj T* (a large part of England, he soon had a much larger army than Athelstan, for many nobles joined him.)Tj T* (And on learning this, Hring and Adils, who had gathered much people, turned to swell king Olaf’s)Tj T* (army. Thus their numbers became exceeding great.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (All this when Athelstan learned, he summoned to conference his captains and his counsellors; he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (inquired of them what were best to do; he told the whole council point by point what he had)Tj T* (ascertained about the doings of the Scots’ king and his numbers. All present were agreed on this, that)Tj T* (Alfgeir was most to blame, and thought it were but his due to lose his earldom. But the plan resolved)Tj T* (on was this, that king Athelstan should go back to the south of England, and then for himself hold a)Tj T* (levy of troops, coming northwards through the whole land; for they saw that the only way for the)Tj T* (needful numbers to be levied in time was for the king himself to gather the force.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (As for the army already assembled, the king set over it as commanders Thorolf and Egil. They were)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (also to lead that force which the freebooters had brought to the king. But Alfgeir still held command)Tj T* (over his own troops. Further, the king appointed such captains of companies as he thought fit.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When Egil returned from the council to his fellows, they asked him what tidings he could tell them of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the Scots’ king. He sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Olaf one earl by furious)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Onslaught in flight hath driven,)Tj T* (The other slain: a sovereign)Tj T* (Stubborn in fight is he.)Tj T* (Upon the field fared Gudrek)Tj T* (False path to his undoing.)Tj T* (He holds, this foe of England,)Tj T* (Northumbria’s humbled soil.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this they sent messengers to king Olaf, giving out this as their errand, that king Athelstan would)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (fain enhazel him a field and offer battle on Vin-heath by Vin-wood; meanwhile he would have them)Tj T* (forbear to harry his land; but of the twain he should rule England who should conquer in the battle. He)Tj T* (appointed a week hence for the conflict, and whichever first came on the ground should wait a week)Tj T* (for the other. 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But when the men came to the place where the field was enhazelled, there were all the)Tj T* (hazel-poles set up to mark the ground where the battle should be.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The place ought to be chosen level, and whereon a large host might be set in array. And such was this;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (for in the place where the battle was to be the heath was level, with a river flowing on one side, on the)Tj T* (other a large wood. But where the distance between the wood and the river was least \(though this was)Tj T* (a good long stretch\), there king Athelstan’s men had pitched, and their tents quite filled the space)Tj T* (between wood and river. They had so pitched that in every third tent there were no men at all, and in)Tj T* (one of every three but few. Yet when king Olaf’s men came to them, they had then numbers swarming)Tj T* (before all the tents, and the others could not get to go inside. Athelstan’s men said that their tents were)Tj T* (all full, so full that their people had not nearly enough room. But the front line of tents stood so high)Tj T* (that it could not be seen over them whether they stood many or few in depth. Olaf’s men imagined a)Tj T* (vast host must be there. King Olaf’s men pitched north of the hazel-poles, toward which side the)Tj T* (ground sloped a little.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (From day to day Athelstan’s men said that the king would come, or was come, to the town that lay)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (south of the heath. Meanwhile forces flocked to them both day and night.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when the appointed time had expired, then Athelstan’s men sent envoys to king Olaf with these)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (words: ’King Athelstan is ready for battle, and had a mighty host. But he sends to king Olaf these)Tj T* (words, that he would fain they should not cause so much bloodshed as now looks likely; he begs Olaf)Tj T* (rather to go home to Scotland, and Athelstan will give him as a friendly gift one shilling of silver from)Tj T* (every plough through all his realm, and he wishes that they should become friends.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When the messengers came to Olaf he was just beginning to make ready his army, and purposing to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (attack. But on the messengers declaring their errand, he forebore to advance for that day. Then he and)Tj T* (his captains sate in council. Wherein opinions were much divided. Some strongly desired that these)Tj T* (terms should be taken; they said that this journey had already won them great honour, if they should)Tj T* (go home after receiving so much money from Athelstan. But some were against it, saying that)Tj T* (Athelstan would offer much more the second time, were this refused. And this latter counsel prevailed.)Tj T* (Then the messengers begged king Olaf to give them time to go back to king Athelstan, and try if he)Tj T* (would pay yet more money to ensure peace. They asked a truce of one day for their journey home,)Tj T* (another for deliberation, a third to return to Olaf. The king granted them this.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The messengers went home, and came back on the third day according to promise; they now said to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king Olaf that Athelstan would give all that he offered before, and over and above, for distribution)Tj T* (among king Olaf’s soldiers, a shilling to every freeborn man, a silver mark to every officer of a)Tj T* (company of twelve men or more, a gold mark to every captain of the king’s guard, and five gold marks)Tj T* (to every earl. Then the king laid this offer before his forces. It was again as before; some opposed this,)Tj T* (some desired it. In the end the king gave a decision: he said he would accept these terms, if this too)Tj T* (were added, that king Athelstan let him have all Northumberland with the tributes and dues thereto)Tj T* (belonging. Again the messengers ask armistice of three days, with this further, that king Olaf should)Tj T* (send his men to hear Athelstan’s answer, whether he would take these terms or no; they say that to)Tj T* (their thinking Athelstan will hardly refuse anything to ensure peace. King Olaf agreed to this and sent)Tj ET endstream endobj 172 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 174 0 obj << /Length 4111 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (his men to king Athelstan.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then the messengers ride all together, and find king Athelstan in the town that was close to the heath)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (on the south. King Olaf’s messengers declare before Athelstan their errand and the proposals for)Tj T* (peace. King Athelstan’s men told also with what offers they had gone to king Olaf, adding that this)Tj T* (had been the counsel of wise men, thus to delay the battle so long as the king had not come.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But king Athelstan made a quick decision on this matter, and thus bespake the messengers: ’Bear ye)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (these my words to king Olaf, that I will give him leave for this, to go home to Scotland with his forces;)Tj T* (only let him restore all the property that he has wrongfully taken here in the land. Then make we peace)Tj T* (between our lands, neither harrying the other. Further be it provided that king Olaf shall become my)Tj T* (vassal, and hold Scotland for me, and be my under-king. Go now back,’ said he, ’and tell him this.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At once that same evening the messengers turned back on their way, and came to king Olaf about)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (midnight; they then waked up the king, and told him straightway the words of king Athelstan. The)Tj T* (king instantly summoned his earls and other captains; he then caused the messengers to come and)Tj T* (declare the issue of their errand and the words of Athelstan. But when this was made known before the)Tj T* (soldiers, all with one mouth said that this was now before them, to prepare for battle. The messengers)Tj T* (said this too, that Athelstan had a numerous force, but he had come into the town on that same day)Tj T* (when the messengers came there.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then spoke earl Adils, ’Now, methinks, that has come to pass, O king, which I said, that ye would find)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (tricksters in the English. We have sat here long time and waited while they have gathered to them all)Tj T* (their forces, whereas their king can have been nowhere near when we came here. They will have been)Tj T* (assembling a multitude while we were sitting still. Now this is my counsel, O king, that we two)Tj T* (brothers ride at once forward this very night with our troop. It may be they will have no fear for)Tj T* (themselves, now they know that their king is near with a large army. So we shall make a dash upon)Tj T* (them. But if they turn and fly, they will lose some of their men, and be less bold afterwards for conflict)Tj T* (with us.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king thought this good counsel. ’We will here make ready our army,’ said he, ’as soon as it is)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (light, and move to support you.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (This plan they fixed upon, and so ended the council.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 287.4001 Tm (Chapter 53 - Of the fight.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 263.2002 Tm (Earl Hring and Adils his brother made ready their army, and at once in the night moved southwards for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the heath. But when day dawned, Thorolf’s sentries saw the army approaching. Then was a war-blast)Tj T* (blown, and men donned their arms selects spirited and that they began to draw up the force, and they)Tj T* (had two divisions. Earl Alfgeir commanded one division, and the standard was borne before him. In)Tj T* (that division were his own followers, and also what force had been gathered from the countryside. It)Tj T* (was a much larger fours than that which followed Thorolf and Egil. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf was thus armed. He had a shield ample and stout, a right strong helmet on his head; he was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (girded with the sword that he called Long, a weapon large and good. If his hand he had a halberd,)Tj T* (whereof the feather-formed blade was two ells long, ending in a four-edged spike; the blade was broad)Tj T* (above, the socket both long and thick. The shaft stood just high enough for the hand to grasp the)Tj T* (socket, and was remarkably thick. The socket fitted with iron prong on the shaft, which was also)Tj T* (wound round with iron. Such weapons were called mail-piercers.)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 4417 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil was armed in the same way as Thorolf. He was girded with the sword that he called Adder; this)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he had gotten in Courland; it was a right good weapon. Neither of the two had shirt of mail.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They set up their standard, which was borne by Thofid the Strong. All their men had Norwegian)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (shields and Norwegian armour in every point; and in their division were all the Norsemen who were)Tj T* (present. Thorolf’s force was drawn up near the wood, Alfgeir’s moved along the river.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Earl Adils and his brother saw that they would not come upon Thorolf unawares, so they began to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (draw up their force. They also made two divisions, and had two standards. Adils was opposed to earl)Tj T* (Alfgeir, Hring to the freebooters. The battle now began; both charged with spirit. Earl Adils pressed on)Tj T* (hard and fast till Alfgeir gave ground; then Adils’ men pressed on twice as boldly. Nor was it long)Tj T* (before Alfgeir fled. And this is to be told of him, that he rode away south over the heath, and a)Tj T* (company of men with him. He rode till he came near the town, where sate the king.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then spake the earl: ’I deem it not safe for us to enter the town. We got sharp words of late when we)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (came to the king after defeat by king Olaf; and he will not think our case bettered by this coming. No)Tj T* (need to expect honour where he is.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then he rode to the south country, and of his travel ’tis to be told that he rode night and day till he and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (his came westwards to Earls-ness. Then the earl got a ship to take him southwards over the sea; and he)Tj T* (came to France, where half of his kin were. He never after returned to England.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Adils at first pursued the flying foe, but not far; then he turned back to where the battle was, and made)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (an onset there. This when Thorolf saw, he said that Egil should turn and encounter him, and bade the)Tj T* (standard be borne that way; his men he bade hold well together and stand close.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Move we to the wood,’ said he, ’and let it cover our back, so that they may not come at us from all )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sides.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They did so; they followed along the wood. Fierce was the battle there. Egil charged against Adils, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they had a hard fight of it. The odds of numbers were great, yet more of Adils’ men fell than of Egil’s.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways,)Tj T* (but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring’s standard, and then nothing could)Tj T* (stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl’s standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he)Tj T* (lunged with his halberd at the earl’s breast, driving it right through mail-coat and body, so that it came)Tj T* (out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the)Tj T* (ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. Then)Tj T* (Thorolf drew his sword and dealt blows on either side, his men also charging. Many Britons and Scots)Tj T* (fell, but some turned and fled.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But earl Adils seeing his brother’s fall, and the slaughter of many of his force, and the flight of some,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (while himself was in hard stress, turned to fly, and ran to the wood. Into the wood fled he and his)Tj T* (company; and then all the force that had followed the earl took to flight. Thorolf and Egil pursued the)Tj T* (flying foe. Great was then the slaughter; the fugitives were scattered far and wide over the heath. Earl)Tj T* (Adils had lowered his standard; so none could know his company from others.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And soon the darkness of night began to close in. Thorolf and Egil returned to their camp; and just)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (then king Athelstan came up with the main army, and they pitched their tents and made their)Tj T* (arrangements. A little after came king Olaf with his army; they, too, encamped and made their)Tj T* (arrangements where their men had before placed their tents. Then it was told king Olaf that both his)Tj ET endstream endobj 178 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 180 0 obj << /Length 4114 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (earls Hring and Adils were fallen, and a multitude of his men likewise.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 709.8 Tm (Chapter 54 - The fall of Thorolf.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 685.6 Tm (King Athelstan had passed the night before in the town whereof mention was made above, and there)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he heard rumour that there had been fighting on the heath. At once he and all the host made ready and)Tj T* (marched northwards to the heath. There they learnt all the tidings clearly, how that battle had gone.)Tj T* (Then the brothers Thorolf and Egil came to meet the king. He thanked them much for their brave)Tj T* (advance, and the victory they had won; he promised them his hearty friendship. They all remained)Tj T* (together for the night.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (No sooner did day dawn than Athelstan waked up his army. He held conference with his captains, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (told them how his forces should be arranged. His own division he first arranged, and in the van thereof)Tj T* (he set those companies that were the smartest.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then he said that Egil should command these: ’But Thorolf,’ said he, ’shall be with his own men and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (such others as I add thereto. This force shall be opposed to that part of the enemy which is loose and)Tj T* (not in set array, for the Scots are ever loose in array; they run to and fro, and dash forward here and)Tj T* (there. Often they prove dangerous if men be not wary, but they are unsteady in the field if boldly )Tj T* (faced.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil answered the king: ’I will not that I and Thorolf be parted in the battle; rather to me it seems well)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that we two be placed there where is like to be most need and hardest fighting.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorolf said, ’Leave we the king to rule where he will place us, serve we him as he likes best. I will, if)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (you wish it, change places with you.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said, ’Brother, you will have your way; but this separation I shall often rue.’)Tj T* (After this they formed in the divisions as the king had arranged, and the standards were raised. The)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king’s division stood on the plain towards the river; Thorolf’s division moved on the higher ground)Tj T* (beside the wood. King Olaf drew up his forces when he saw king Athelstan had done so. He also made)Tj T* (two divisions; and his own standard, and the division that himself commanded, he opposed to king)Tj T* (Athelstan and his division. Either had a large army, there was no difference on the score of numbers.)Tj T* (But king Olaf’s second division moved near the wood against the force under Thorolf. The)Tj T* (commanders thereof were Scotch earls, the men mostly Scots; and it was a great multitude.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And now the armies closed, and soon the battle waxed fierce. Thorolf pressed eagerly forward, causing)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (his standard to be borne onwards along the woodside; he thought to go so far forward as to turn upon)Tj T* (the Scotch king’s division behind their shields. His own men held their shields before them; they)Tj T* (trusted to the wood which was on their right to cover that side. So far in advance went Thorolf that few)Tj T* (of his men were before him. But just when he was least on his guard, out leapt from the wood earl)Tj T* (Adils and his followers. They thrust at Thorolf at once with many halberds, and there by the wood he)Tj T* (fell. But Thorfid, who bore the standard, drew back to where the men stood thicker. Adils now)Tj T* (attacked them, and a fierce contest was there. The Scots shouted a shout of victory, as having slain the)Tj T* (enemy’s chieftain.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (This shout when Egil heard, and saw Thorolf’s standard going back, he felt sure that Thorolf himself)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (would not be with it. So he bounded thither over the space between the two divisions. Full soon learnt)Tj T* (he the tidings of what was done, when he came to his men. Then did he keenly spur them on to the)Tj T* (charge, himself foremost in the van. He had in his hand his sword Adder. Forward Egil pressed, and)Tj ET endstream endobj 181 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 183 0 obj << /Length 3271 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (hewed on either hand of him, felling many men. Thorfid bore the standard close after him, behind the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (standard followed the rest. Right sharp was the conflict there. Egil went forward till he met earl Adils.)Tj T* (Few blows did they exchange ere earl Adils fell, and many men around him. But after the earl’s death)Tj T* (his followers fled. Egil and his force pursued, and slew all whom they overtook; no need there to beg)Tj T* (quarter. Nor stood those Scotch earls long, when they saw the others their fellows fly; but at once they)Tj T* (took to their heels.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Whereupon Egil and his men made for where king Olaf’s division was, and coming on them behind)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (their shields soon wrought great havoc. 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At length, sated with pursuit, he with his followers)Tj T* (turned back, and came where the battle had been, and found there the dead body of his brother)Tj T* (Thorolf. He took it up, washed it, and performed such other offices as were the wont of the time. They)Tj T* (dug a grave there, and laid Thorolf therein with all his weapons and raiment. Then Egil clasped a gold)Tj T* (bracelet on either wrist before he parted from him; this done they heaped on stones and cast in mould.)Tj T* (Then Egil sang a stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Dauntless the doughty champion)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Dashed on, the earl’s bold slayer:)Tj T* (In stormy stress of battle)Tj T* (Stout-hearted Thorolf fell.)Tj T* (Green grows on soil of Vin-heath)Tj T* (Grass o’er my noble brother:)Tj T* (But we our woe - a sorrow)Tj T* (Worse than death-pang must bear.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And again he further sang:)Tj T* (’With warriors slain round standard)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The western field I burdened;)Tj T* (Adils with my blue Adder)Tj T* (Assailed mid snow of war.)Tj T* (Olaf, young prince, encountered)Tj T* (England in battle thunder:)Tj T* (Hring stood not stour of weapons,)Tj T* (Starved not the ravens’ maw.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then went Egil and those about him to seek king Athelstan, and at once went before the king, where)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (he sat at the drinking. There was much noise of merriment. And when the king saw that Egil was come)Tj T* (in, he bade the lower bench be cleared for them, and that Egil should sit in the high-seat facing the)Tj ET endstream endobj 184 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 186 0 obj << /Length 3301 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (king. Egil sat down there, and cast his shield before his feet. He had his helm on his head, and laid his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sword across his knees; and now and again he half drew it, then clashed it back into the sheath. He sat)Tj T* (upright, but with head bent forward.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil was large-featured, broad of forehead, with large eyebrows, a nose not long but very thick, lips)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (wide and long, chin exceeding broad, as was all about the jaws; thick-necked was he, and)Tj T* (big-shouldered beyond other men, hard-featured, and grim when angry. He was well-made, more than)Tj T* (commonly tall, had hair wolf-gray and thick, but became early bald. He was black-eyed and )Tj T* (brown-skinned,)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But as he sat \(as was before written\), he drew one eye-brow down towards the cheek, the other up to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the roots of the hair. He would not drink now, though the horn was borne to him, but alternately)Tj T* (twitched his brows up and down. King Athelstan sat in the upper high-seat. He too laid his sword)Tj T* (across his knees. When they had sat there for a time, then the king drew his sword from the sheath, and)Tj T* (took from his arm a gold ring large and good, and placing it upon the sword-point he stood up, and)Tj T* (went across the floor, and reached it over the fire to Egil. Egil stood up and drew his sword, and went)Tj T* (across the floor. He stuck the sword-point within the round of the ring, and drew it to him; then he)Tj T* (went back to his place. The king sate him again in his high-seat. But when Egil was set down, he drew)Tj T* (the ring on his arm, and then his brows went back to their place. He now laid down sword and helm,)Tj T* (took the horn that they bare to him, and drank it off. Then sang he:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Mailed monarch, god of battle,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Maketh the tinkling circlet)Tj T* (Hang, his own arm forsaking,)Tj T* (On hawk-trod wrist of mine.)Tj T* (I bear on arm brand-wielding)Tj T* (Bracelet of red gold gladly.)Tj T* (War-falcon’s feeder meetly)Tj T* (Findeth such meed of praise.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thereafter Egil drank his share, and talked with others. Presently the king caused to be borne in two)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (chests; two men bare each. Both were full of silver.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king said: ’These chests, Egil, thou shalt have, and, if thou comest to Iceland, shalt carry this)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (money to thy father; as payment for a son I send it to him: but some of the money thou shalt divide)Tj T* (among such kinsmen of thyself and Thorolf as thou thinkest most honourable. But thou shalt take here)Tj T* (payment for a brother with me, land or chattels, which thou wilt. And if thou wilt abide with me long,)Tj T* (then will I give thee honour and dignity such as thyself mayst name.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil took the money, and thanked the king for his gifts and friendly words. Thenceforward Egil began)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to be cheerful; and then he sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’In sorrow sadly drooping)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Sank my brows close-knitted;)Tj T* (Then found I one who furrows)Tj T* (Of forehead could smooth.)Tj T* (Fierce-frowning cliffs that shaded)Tj T* (My face a king hath lifted)Tj T* (With gleam of golden armlet:)Tj T* (Gloom leaveth my eyes.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 187 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 189 0 obj << /Length 2934 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Then those men were healed whose wounds left hope of life. Egil abode with king Athelstan for the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (next winter after Thorolf’s death, and had very great honour from the king. With Egil was then all that)Tj T* (force which had followed the two brothers, and come alive out of the battle. Egil now made a poem)Tj T* (about king Athelstan, and in it is this stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Land-shielder, battle-quickener,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Low now this scion royal)Tj T* (Earls three hath laid. To Ella)Tj T* (Earth must obedient bow.)Tj T* (Lavish of gold, kin-glorious,)Tj T* (Great Athelstan victorious,)Tj T* (Surely, I swear, all humbled)Tj T* (To such high monarch yields.’)Tj T* (
But this is the burden in the poem:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Reindeer-trod hills obey)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Bold Athelstan’s high sway.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then gave Athelstan further to Egil as poet’s meed two gold rings, each weighing a mark, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (therewith a costly cloak that the king himself had formerly worn.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when spring came Egil signified to the king this, that he purposed to go away in the summer to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Norway, and to learn ’how matters stand with Asgerdr, my late brother Thorolf’s wife. A large)Tj T* (property is there in all; but I know not whether there be children of theirs living. I am bound to look)Tj T* (after them, if they live; but I am heir to all, if Thorolf died childless.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king answered, ’This will be, Egil, for you to arrange, to go away hence, if you think you have an)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (errand of duty; but I think ’twere the best way that you should settle down here with me on such terms)Tj T* (as you like to ask.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil thanked the king for his words.)Tj T* (’I will,’ he said, ’now first go, as I am in duty bound to do; but it is likely that I shall return hither to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (see after this promise so soon as I can.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king bade him do so.)Tj T* (Whereupon Egil made him ready to depart with his men; but of these many remained behind with the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king. Egil had one large war-ship, and on board thereof a hundred men or thereabouts. And when he)Tj T* (was ready for his voyage, and a fair wind blew, he put out to sea. He and king Athelstan parted with)Tj T* (great friendship: the king begged Egil to return as soon as possible. This Egil promised to do.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil stood for Norway, and when he came to land sailed with all speed into the Firths. He heard)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (these tidings, that lord Thorir was dead, and Arinbjorn had taken inheritance after him, and was made)Tj T* (a baron. Egil went to Arinbjorn and got there a good welcome. Arinbjorn asked him to stay there. Egil)Tj T* (accepted this, had his ship set up, and his crew lodged. But Arinbjorn received Egil and twelve men;)Tj T* (they stayed with him through the winter.)Tj ET endstream endobj 190 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 192 0 obj << /Length 2848 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 56 - Marriage of Egil.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (Bergonund son of Thorgeir Thornfoot had then married Gunnhilda daughter of Bjorn Yeoman. She)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had come to keep house with him at Askr. But Asgerdr, whom Thorolf Skallagrimsson had had to)Tj T* (wife, was then with Arinbjorn, her kinsman. Thorolf and she had a daughter named Thordis, and the)Tj T* (girl was there with her mother. Egil told Asgerdr of Thorolf’s death, and offered her his guardianship.)Tj T* (Asgerdr was much grieved at the tidings; she answered Egil’s words well, saying however but little)Tj T* (one way or the other.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But, at autumn wore on, Egil began to be very gloomy and drank little, and often say with his head)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (drooping in his cloak. One time Arinbjorn went to him and asked what meant his gloom.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Though now you have had a great loss in your brother, yet ’tis manly to bear up well; man must)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (overlive man. Come, what verse are you now repeating? Let me hear.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said he had just made this verse:)Tj T* (’Unfriendly, who was friend,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Fair goddess seems. Of old)Tj T* (Bold with uplifted brow)Tj T* (Beheld I woman’s face.)Tj T* (Now one \(whose name I veil\))Tj T* (No sooner to the skald)Tj T* (Occurs, than shyly sinks)Tj T* (Screen’d in his cloak his head.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn asked who was the woman about whom he composed such love-song. ’Have you hidden her)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (name in this stave?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil recited:)Tj T* (’Sorrow shows not, but hides)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The saddening thought within.)Tj T* (Names in my poesy)Tj T* (Not oft I use to veil.)Tj T* (For Odin’s warrior wights)Tj T* (Will surely searching find)Tj T* (In war-god’s wine of song)Tj T* (What poet deep hath plunged.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Here,’ said Egil, ’will the old saw be found true. All should be told to a friend. I will tell you that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (which you ask, about what woman I compose verse. ’’Tis Asgerdr your kinswoman; and I would fain)Tj T* (have your furtherance to secure this match.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn said that he deemed it well thought of. ’I will,’ said he, ’surely give my good word that this)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (match may be made.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil laid this matter before Asgerdr, but she referred it to the decision of her father and her)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (kinsman Arinbjorn. Arinbjorn talked with Asgerdr, and she made the same answer. Arinbjorn was)Tj T* (desirous of this match. After this Arinbjorn and Egil went together to Bjorn, and then Egil made his)Tj T* (suit and asked to wife Asgerdr Bjorn’s daughter. Bjorn took this matter well, and said that Arinbjorn)Tj T* (should chiefly decide this. Arinbjorn greatly desired it; and the end of the matter was that Egil and)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 4006 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Asgerdr were betrothed, and the wedding was to be at Arinbjorn’s.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when the appointed time came, there was a very grand feast at Egil’s marriage. He was then very)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (cheerful for the remaining part of the winter. In the spring he made ready a merchant-ship for a voyage)Tj T* (to Iceland. Arinbjorn advised him not to settle in Norway while Gunnhilda’s power was so great. ’For)Tj T* (she is very wroth with you,’ said Arinbjorn; ’and this has been made much worse by your encounter)Tj T* (with Eyvind near Jutland.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Egil was ready, and a fair wind blew, he sailed out to sea, and his voyage sped well. He)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (came in the autumn to Iceland, and stood into Borgar-firth. He had now been out twelve winters.)Tj T* (Skallagrim was an old man by this time. Full glad was he when Egil came home. Egil went to lodge at)Tj T* (Borg, and with him Thofid Strong and many of their company; and they were there with Skallagrim)Tj T* (for the winter. Egil had immense store of wealth; but it is not told that Egil shared that silver which)Tj T* (king Athelstan had given him either with Skallagrim or others. That winter Thorfid married Sæunn,)Tj T* (Skallagrim’s daughter; and in the following spring Skallagrim gave them a homestead at)Tj T* (Long-river-foss, and the land inwards from Leiru-brook between Long-river and Swan-river, even up)Tj T* (to the fell. Daughter of Thorfid and Sæunn was Thordis wife to Arngeir in Holm, the son of Bersi)Tj T* (Godless. Their son was Bjorn, Hitadale’s champion.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil abode there with Skallagrim several winters. He took upon him the management of the property)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and farm no less than Skallagrim. Egil became more and more bald. The country-side began now to be)Tj T* (settled far and wide. Hromund, brother of Grim the Halogalander, settled at this time in)Tj T* (Cross-river-lithe with his shipmates. Hromund was father of Gunnlaug, the father of Thuridr Dylla,)Tj T* (mother of Illugi the Swarthy.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil had now been several winters at Borg with his father, when one summer a ship from Norway to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Iceland with these tidings from the east, that Bjorn Yeoman was dead. Further, it was told that all the)Tj T* (property owned by Bjorn had been taken up by Bergonund, his son-in-law, who had moved to his own)Tj T* (home all loose chattels, letting out the lands, and securing to himself all the rents. He had also got)Tj T* (possession of all the farms occupied of late by Bjorn. This when Egil heard, he inquired carefully)Tj T* (whether Bjorn had acted on his own counsel in this matter, or had the support of others more powerful.)Tj T* (It was told him that Onund was become a close friend of king Eric, but was on even more intimate)Tj T* (terms with Gunnhilda.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil let the matter rest for this autumn; but when winter was past and spring came, then Egil bade them)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (draw out his ship, which had stood in the shed at Long-river-foss. This ship he made ready for sea, and)Tj T* (got a crew thereto. Asgerdr his wife was to go with him, but Thordis Thorolf’s daughter remained)Tj T* (behind. Egil sailed out to sea when he was ready, and of his voyage there is nothing to tell before he)Tj T* (came to Norway. He at once, as soon as he could, went to seek Arinbjorn. Arinbjorn received him)Tj T* (well, and asked Egil to stay with him; this offer he took. So both he and Asgerdr went thither and)Tj T* (several men with them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil very soon spoke with Arinbjorn about those claims on money that he thought he had there in the )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (land.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn said, ’That matter seems to me unpromising. Bergonund is hard, ill to deal with, unjust,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (covetous; and he has now much support from the king and the queen. Gunnhilda is your bitter enemy,)Tj T* (as you know already, and she will not desire Onund to put the case right.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 197 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 199 0 obj << /Length 3811 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil said, ’The king will let us get law and justice in this matter, and with your help it seems no great)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thing in my eyes to take the law of Bergonund.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They resolved on this, that Egil should equip a swift cutter, whereon they embarked some twenty men,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and went south to Hordaland and on to Askr. There they go to the house and find Onund. Egil declares)Tj T* (his business, and demands of Onund’s sharing of the heritage of Bjorn. He says that Bjorn’s daughters)Tj T* (were by law both alike his heirs, ’Though methinks,’ says Egil, ’Asgerdr will be deemed more nobly)Tj T* (born than your wife Gunnhilda.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then says Onund in high-pitched voice, ’A wondrous bold man are you, Egil, the outlaw of king Eric,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (who come hither to his land and think here to attack his men and friends. You are to know, Egil, that I)Tj T* (have overthrown men as good as you for less cause than methinks this is, when you claim heritage in)Tj T* (right of your wife; for this is well known to all, that she is born of a bondwoman.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Onund was furious in language for a time; but when Egil saw that Onund would do no right in this)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (matter, then he summoned him to court, and referred the matter to the law of the Gula-thing.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Onund said, ’To the Gula-thing I will come, and my will is that you should not come away thence with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (a whole skin.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said he would risk coming to the Thing all the same: ’There let come what come may to end our )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (matter.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil then went away with his company, and when he came home told Arinbjorn of his journey and of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Onund’s answer. Arinbjorn was very angry that Thora his father’s sister had been called a)Tj T* (bondwoman. Arinbjorn went to king Eric, and declared this matter before him.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king took his words rather sullenly, and said that Arinbjorn had long advocated Egil’s cause: ’He)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (has had this grace through thee, that I have let him be here in the land; but now shall I think it too)Tj T* (much to bear if thou back him in his assaults on my friends.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn said, ’Thou wilt let us get law in this case.’)Tj T* (The king was rather peevish in this talk, but Arinbjorn could see that the queen was much )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (worse-willed.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn went back and said that things looked rather unpromising. Then winter wore away, and the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (time came when men should go to the Gula-thing. Arinbjorn took to the Thing a numerous company,)Tj T* (among them went Egil.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 230.2002 Tm (Chapter 57 - Suit between Egil and Onund.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 206.0002 Tm (King Eric was there numerously attended. Bergonund was among his train, as were his brothers; there)Tj T* (was a large following. But when the meeting was to be held about men’s lawsuits, both the parties)Tj T* (went where the court was set, to plead their proofs. Then was Onund full of big words. Now where the)Tj T* (court sate was a level plot, with hazel-poles planted in a ring, and outside were twisted ropes all)Tj T* (around. This was called, ’the precincts.’ Within the ring sate twelve judges of the Firth-folk, twelve of)Tj T* (the Sogn-folk, twelve of the Horda-folk. These three twelves were to judge all the suits. Arinbjorn)Tj T* (ruled who should be judges from the Firth-folk, Thord of Aurland who should be so from the)Tj T* (Sogn-folk. All these were of one party. Arinbjorn had brought thither a long-ship full equipt, also)Tj T* (many small craft and store-ships. King Eric had six or seven long-ships all well equipt; a great number)Tj T* (of landowners were also there.)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 3731 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil began his cause thus: he craved the judges to give him lawful judgement in the suit between him)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and Onund. He then set forth what proofs he held of his claim on the property that had belonged to)Tj T* (Bjorn Brynjolf’s son. He said that Asgerdr daughter of Bjorn, own wife of him Egil, was rightful)Tj T* (heiress, born noble, of landed gentry, even of titled family further back. And he craved of the judges)Tj T* (this, to adjudge to Asgerdr half of Bjorn’s inheritance, whether land or chattels.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when he ceased speaking, then Bergonund took the word and spoke thus: ’Gunnhilda my wife is)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the daughter of Bjorn and Alof, the wife whom Bjorn lawfully married. Gunnhilda is rightful heiress)Tj T* (of Bjorn. I for this reason took possession of all the property left by Bjorn, because I knew that that)Tj T* (other daughter of Bjorn had no right to inherit. Her mother was a captive of war, afterwards taken as)Tj T* (concubine, without her kinsmen’s consent, and carried from land to land. But thou, Egil, thinkest to go)Tj T* (on here, as everywhere else, with thy fierceness and wrongful dealing. This will not avail thee now; for)Tj T* (king Eric and queen Gunnhilda have promised me that I shall have right in every cause within the)Tj T* (bounds of their dominion. I will produce true evidence before the king and the judges that Thora)Tj T* (Lace-hand, Asgerdr’s mother, was taken captive from the house of Thorir her brother, and a second)Tj T* (time from Brynjolf’s house at Aurland. Then she went away out of the land with freebooters, and was)Tj T* (outlawed from Norway, and in this outlawry Bjorn and she had born to them this girl Asgerdr. A great)Tj T* (wonder now is this in Egil, that he thinks to make void all the words of king Eric. First, Egil, thou art)Tj T* (here in the land after Eric made thee an outlaw; secondly - which is worse - though, thou hast a)Tj T* (bondwoman to thy wife, thou claimest for her right of heritage. I demand this of the judges, that they)Tj T* (adjudge the inheritance to Gunnhilda, but adjudge Asgerdr to be the bondwoman of the king, because)Tj T* (she was begotten when her father and mother were outlawed by the king.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Right wroth was Arinbjorn when he heard Thora Lace-hand called a bondwoman; and he stood up,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and would no longer hold his peace, but looked around on either side, and took the word:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Evidence we will bring, sir king, in this matter, and oaths we will add, that this was in the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (reconciliation of my father and Bjorn Yeoman expressly provided, that Asgerdr daughter of Bjorn and)Tj T* (Thora was to have right of inheriting after Bjorn her father; as also this, which thyself, O king, dost)Tj T* (know, that thou restoredst Bjorn to his rights in Norway, and so everything was settled which had)Tj T* (before stood in the way of their reconciliation.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (To these words the king found no ready answer. Then sang Egil a stave:)Tj T* (’Bondwoman born this knave)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (My brooch-decked lady calls.)Tj T* (Shameless in selfish greed)Tj T* (Such dealing Onund loves:)Tj T* (Braggart! my bride is one)Tj T* (Born heiress, jewell’d dame.)Tj T* (Our oaths, great king, accept,)Tj T* (Oaths that are meet and true.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Arinbjorn produced witnesses, twelve men, and all well chosen. These all had heard, being)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (present, the reconciliation of Thorir and Bjorn, and they offered to the king and judges to swear to it.)Tj T* (The judges were willing to accept their oath if the king forbade it not.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then did queen Gunnhilda take the word:)Tj ET endstream endobj 203 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 205 0 obj << /Length 3386 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (’Great wonder is this, sir king, that thou lettest this big Egil make such a coil of the whole cause before)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thee. Wouldst thou find nought to say against him, though he should claim at thy hand thy very)Tj T* (kingdom? Now though thou wilt give no decision that may help Onund, yet will not I brook this, that)Tj T* (Egil tread under foot our friends and wrongfully take the property from Onund. Where is Alf my)Tj T* (brother? Go thou, Alf, with thy following, where the judges are, and let them not give this wrong )Tj T* (judgment.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then he and his men went thither, and cut in sunder the precinct-ropes and tore down the poles, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (scattered the judges. Great uproar was there in the Thing; but men there were all weaponless.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then spake Egil: ’Can Bergonund hear my words?’)Tj T* (’I hear,’ said Onund.)Tj T* (’Then do I challenge thee to combat, and be our fight here at the Thing. Let him of us twain have this)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (property, both lands and chattels, who wins the victory. But be thou every man’s dastard if thou darest )Tj T* (not.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Whereupon king Eric made answer: ’If thou, Egil, art strongly set on fighting, then will we grant thee)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (this forthwith.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil replied: ’I will not fight with king’s power and overwhelming force; but before equal numbers I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (will not flee, if this be given me. Nor will I then make any distinction of persons, titled or untitled.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then spake Arinbjorn: ’Go we away, Egil; we shall not here effect to-day anything that will be to our )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (gain.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And with this Arinbjorn and all his people turned to depart.)Tj T* (But Egil turned him and cried aloud: ’This do I protest before thee, Arinbjorn, and thee, Thord, and all)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (men that now can hear my word, barons and lawmen and all people, that I ban all those lands that)Tj T* (belonged to Bjorn Brynjolfsson, from building and tillage, and from all gain therefrom to be gotten. I)Tj T* (ban them to thee, Bergonund, and to all others, natives and foreigners, high and low; and anyone who)Tj T* (shall herein offend I denounce as a law-breaker, a peace breaker, and accursed.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After which Egil went away with Arinbjorn.)Tj T* (They then went to their ships; and there was a rise in the ground of some extent to pass over, so that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the ships were not visible from the Thing-field. Egil was very wroth. And when they came to the ships,)Tj T* (Arinbjorn spoke before his people and said:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’All men know what has been the issue of the Thing here, that we have not got law; but the king is)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (much in wrath, so that I expect our men will get hard measure from him if he can bring it about. I will)Tj T* (now that every man embark on his ship and go home. Let none wait for other.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Arinbjorn went on board his own ship, and to Egil he said: ’Now go you with your comrades on)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (board the cutter that lies here outside the long-ship, and get you away at once. Travel by night so much)Tj T* (as you may, and not by day, and be on your guard, for the king will seek to meet with you. Come and)Tj T* (find me afterwards, when all this is ended, whatever may have chanced between you and the king.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 206 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 208 0 obj << /Length 3444 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil did as Arinbjorn said; they went aboard the cutter, about thirty men, and rowed with all their)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (might. The vessel was remarkably fast. Then rowed out of the haven many other ships of Arinbjorn’s)Tj T* (people, cutters and row-boats; but the long-ship which Arinbjorn steered went last, for it was the)Tj T* (heaviest under oars. Egil’s cutter, which he steered, soon outstripped the rest. Then Egil sang a stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’My heritage he steals,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The money-grasping heir)Tj T* (Of Thornfoot. But his threats,)Tj T* (Though fierce, I boldly meet.)Tj T* (For land we sought the law:)Tj T* (Land-grabbing loon is he!)Tj T* (But robbery of my right)Tj T* (Ere long he shall repay.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 553.6001 Tm (Chapter 58 - Of king Eric and Egil.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 529.4001 Tm (King Eric heard the concluding words of Egil that he spake last at the Thing, and his wrath waxed hot.)Tj T* (But all men had gone weaponless to the Thing, therefore the king attempted no attack. He bade his)Tj T* (men hasten to their ships, and they did as he bade. Then, when they came to the strand, the king)Tj T* (summoned his household Thing, and told them his purpose.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’We must now,’ said he, ’untent our ships and row after Arinbjorn and Egil, and this I will have you)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (know, that we will take Egil’s life if we get the chance, and spare no man who shall stand up for him.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After that they went aboard, made all ready as speedily as might be, and pushed out the ships and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (rowed to the place where Arinbjorn’s ships had been. These were now all gone. Then the king bade)Tj T* (that they should row after them northwards by the sound. And when he came to Sogn-sea, then there)Tj T* (was Arinbjorn’s company rowing in towards Sheeping-sound, and thither the king turned in after)Tj T* (them, and he came up with Arinbjorn’s ship in the inner part of Sheeping-sound. At once the king)Tj T* (made for it, and they exchanged words. The king asked whether Egil was in the ship. Arinbjorn )Tj T* (answered.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Egil is not here,’ he said; ’that, O king, thou mayest at once see. Here on board on none but those)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (whom thou knowest; and Egil will not be found down under the benches, though thou shouldst seek)Tj T* (him there.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king asked Arinbjorn what he knew latest of Egil. He said that Egil was on a cutter with thirty)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (men, and they took their way out to Stone-sound. Then the king told his men to row by the inner)Tj T* (sound, and shape their course so as to meet Egil.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (There was a man named Kettle Hod; he was of king Eric’s guard, an Uplander by family. He was pilot)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (on the king’s ship, and steered the same. Kettle was a tall man and a handsome; he was near of kin to)Tj T* (the king. And ’twas generally said that he and the king were like in appearance.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Egil, before going to the Thing, had had his ship launched and the cargo put on board. And after)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (parting with Arinbjorn, he and his went their way to Stone-sound, till they came to his ship, which lay)Tj T* (there afloat in the haven with tent overspread. Then they went up aboard the ship, but the cutter rode)Tj T* (beside the rudder of the ship between the land and the ship, and the oars lay there in the loops.)Tj ET endstream endobj 209 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 211 0 obj << /Length 3267 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Next morning, when day had hardly dawned, the watch were aware that some ships were rowing for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (them. But when Egil saw that it was an enemy, he stood up and bade that they should leap into the)Tj T* (cutter. He armed himself at once, as did they all. Egil took up those chests of silver which king)Tj T* (Athelstan gave him, and bore them with him. They leapt armed into the cutter, and rowed forward)Tj T* (between the land and the long-ship that was advancing nearest to the land; this was king Eric’s ship.)Tj T* (But, as it happened suddenly and there was little light, the two ships ran past each other. And when the)Tj T* (stern-castles were opposite, then Egil hurled a spear and smote in the middle the man who sat steering,)Tj T* (Kettle Hod to wit, and at once he got his bane. Then king Eric called out and bade men row after Egil)Tj T* (and his party, but as their vessels ran past Egil’s merchant-ship, the king’s men leapt aboard of that.)Tj T* (And those of Egil’s men who had been left behind, and not leapt into the cutter, were all slain who)Tj T* (could be caught, but some escaped to land. Ten men of Egil’s followers were lost there.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Some ships rowed after Egil, but some plundered the merchant-ship. All the booty on board was taken,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and the ship burnt. But those who rowed after Egil pulled hard; two at each oar, and they could even so)Tj T* (take the rowing by turns. For they had no lack of men on board, while Egil’s crew was short, they)Tj T* (being now but eighteen on the cutter. So the distance between them lessened. But inside of the island)Tj T* (was a shallow sound between it and other islands. It was now low water. Egil and his rowers ran their)Tj T* (cutter into that shallow sound, but the long-ships could not float there; thus pursuers and pursued were)Tj T* (parted. The king then turned back southwards, but Egil went north to seek Arinbjorn. Then sang Egil a )Tj T* (stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Wakener of weapon-din,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The warlike prince, hath wrought)Tj T* (\(Where I escaped scot-free\))Tj T* (Scathe on our gallant ten.)Tj T* (Yet sped my hand a spear,)Tj T* (Like springing salmon swift,)Tj T* (That rushed and Kettle’s ribs)Tj T* (Rent sore with deathful wound.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil came to Arinbjorn, and told him these tidings. Arinbjorn said that he could expect nothing better)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (in dealing with king Eric. ’But you shall not want for money, Egil. I will make good the loss of your)Tj T* (ship, and give you another, in which you can well sail to Iceland.’ Asgerdr, Egil’s wife, had remained)Tj T* (at Arinbjorn’s while they went to the Thing. Arinbjorn gave Egil a good sea-worthy ship, and had it)Tj T* (laden with such things as Egil wished. This ship Egil got ready for sea, and again he had a crew of)Tj T* (about thirty men. Then he and Arinbjorn parted in friendship. And Egil sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Requite him, righteous gods,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (For robbery of my wealth!)Tj T* (Hunt him away, be wroth,)Tj T* (High Odin, heavenly powers!)Tj T* (Foe of his folk, base king,)Tj T* (May Frey and Njord make flee!)Tj T* (Hate him, land-guardians, hate,)Tj T* (Who holy ground hath scorn’d!’)Tj ET endstream endobj 212 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 214 0 obj << /Length 3988 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 59 - King Eric slays his brothers.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (Harold Fairhair set his sons to rule in Norway when he began to grow old: Eric he made king above all)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (his other sons. It was when Harold had been king for seventy years that he gave over the kingdom into)Tj T* (the hands of his son Eric. At that time Gunnhilda bare a son, whom Harold the king sprinkled with)Tj T* (water, giving him his own name; and he added this that he should be king after his father if he lived)Tj T* (long enough. King Harold then settled down in retirement, being mostly in Rogaland or Hordaland.)Tj T* (But three years later king Harold died in Rogaland, and a mound was raised to his memory by )Tj T* (Haugasound.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After the death of the king there was great strife between his sons, for the men of Vik took Olaf for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (their king, but the Thronds Sigurd. But these two, his brothers, Eric slew at Tunsberg, one year after)Tj T* (king Harold’s death. All these things happened in one and the same summer, to wit, king Eric’s going)Tj T* (with his army eastwards to Vik to fight with his brothers, and \(before that\) the strife of Egil and)Tj T* (Bergonund at the Gula-thing, with the other events that have just been related.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Bergonund remained at home on his estate when the king went to the war, for he thought it unsafe for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (him to leave home while Egil was still in the land. Hadd, his brother, was now there with him. There)Tj T* (was a man named Frodi, a kinsman of king Eric, very handsome, young in years, but a man grown.)Tj T* (King Eric left him behind to protect Bergonund. Frodi was staying at Alrekstead, a royal farm, and had)Tj T* (some men there. A son of Eric and Gunnhilda there was named Rognvald, who was then ten or eleven)Tj T* (years old, and had the makings of a very handsome man. He was with Frodi when these things)Tj T* (happened. But before king Eric rowed forth to this war, he made Egil an outlaw through all Norway,)Tj T* (and free for any man to slay. Arinbjorn was with the king in the war; but before he left home Egil took)Tj T* (his ship to sea, and made for the outlying fishing station called Vitar, over against Aldi. It is on the)Tj T* (high road of the seas: fishermen were there, and ’twas a good place for hearing tidings. Then he heard)Tj T* (that the king had made him an outlaw. Whereupon Egil sang a stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Law-breaker, land-demon,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Long voyage lays on me;)Tj T* (He bane of his brothers,)Tj T* (Beguiled by his bride.)Tj T* (Gunnhilda the guilt bears)Tj T* (\(Grim queen\) of my exile:)Tj T* (Fain am I full swiftly)Tj T* (Her frauds to repay.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The weather was calm, a fell-wind blew by night, a sea breeze by day. One evening Egil sailed out to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sea, but the fishermen were then rowing in to land, those, to wit, who had been set as spies on Egil’s)Tj T* (movements. They had this to tell, that Egil had put out and sailed to sea, and was gone. This news they)Tj T* (carried to Bergonund. And when he knew these tidings, then he sent away all those men that he had)Tj T* (had before for protection. Thereafter he rowed in to Alrekstead, and bade Frodi to his house, for he)Tj T* (had a great ale-drinking there. Frodi went with him, taking some men. They were feasted well there,)Tj T* (and they made merry, with no fear of danger. Rognvald, the king’s son, had a pinnace, rowed by six)Tj T* (men on either side, painted all above the sea line. He had with him ten or twelve who constantly)Tj T* (followed him; and when Frodi had left home, then Rognvald took the pinnace and they rowed out to)Tj T* (Herdla twelve in number. A large farm of the king’s was there, whereof the manager was named)Tj T* (Skegg-Thorir. Rognvald in his childhood had been fostered there. Thorir received the king’s son)Tj T* (joyfully. There too was no lack of drink.)Tj ET endstream endobj 215 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 217 0 obj << /Length 4074 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 60 - The slaying of Bergonund and Rognvald the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king’s son.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 692 Tm (Egil sailed out to sea for the night, as was written above. And when morning came the wind fell and)Tj T* (there was a calm. They then lay drifting, letting the ship ride free for some nights. But when a)Tj T* (sea-breeze came on, Egil said to his shipmen, ’We will now sail to land, for I do not quite know,)Tj T* (should the sea-wind come to blow hard, where we could make land, ’tis a dangerous-looking coast in)Tj T* (most places.’ The rowers bade Egil rule their course.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So then they made sail, and sailed into the waters about Herdla. There they found a good haven, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (spread the tent over their ship, and lay there for the night. They had on the ship a little boat, into which)Tj T* (went Egil with three men. They rowed into Herdla, and sent a man up into the island to learn tidings;)Tj T* (and when he came down to the ship, he said that there at the farm was Rognvald, the king’s son, and)Tj T* (his men. ’They sate there a-drinking,’ said he. ’I lit on one of the house-carles; he was ale-mad, and)Tj T* (said that here they must not drink less than was drunk at Bergonund’s, though Frodi was feasting there)Tj T* (with a party of five. He said that no more were there than the house-hold, save Frodi and his men.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Whereupon Egil rowed back to the ship, and bade the men rise and take their weapons. They did so.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The ship they put out from the shore and anchored. Egil left twelve men to guard the ship, but himself)Tj T* (went on the ship’s boat, they being eighteen in all; they then rowed in along the sound. They so)Tj T* (regulated their pace that they came to Fenhring at eventide, and put into a hidden creek there. Then)Tj T* (said Egil: ’Now will I go up into the island and spy out what I can get to know; but you shall await me )Tj T* (here.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil had his weapons that he was wont to have, a helm and shield, a sword at his girdle, a halberd in)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (his hand. He went up into the island and along the border of a wood. He had now drawn a hood over)Tj T* (his helm. He came where there were some lads, and with them large sheep-dogs. And when they began)Tj T* (to exchange words, he asked whence they were, and why they were there, and had such big dogs. They)Tj T* (said: ’You must be a very silly fellow; have you not heard that a bear goes about the island here, a)Tj T* (great pest? He kills both men and sheep, and a price is set upon his head. We watch here at Askr every)Tj T* (night over our flocks that are penned in the fold. By why go you at night thus armed?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He answered: ’I, too, am afraid of the bear; and few, methinks, now go weaponless. He has long)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (pursued me to-night. See there now, where he is in the skirt of the wood! Are all asleep at this )Tj T* (farmhouse?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The boy said that Bergonund and Frodi would be drinking still; ’they sit at it every night.’)Tj T* (’Then tell them,’ said Egil, ’where the bear is; but I will hasten home.’)Tj T* (So he went away; but the boy ran home to the farmhouse, and into the room where they were drinking.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (All had gone to sleep save these three, Onund, Frodi, and Hadd. The boy told them where the bear)Tj T* (was. They took their weapons which hung there by them, and at once ran out and up to the wood.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (From the main forest ran out a spur of wood with scattered bushes. The boy told them where the bear)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had been in the bushes. Then they saw that the branches moved, whence they guessed that the bear)Tj T* (would be there. Then Bergonund advised that Hadd and Frodi should run forward between the shrubs)Tj T* (and the main forest, and stop the bear from gaining the wood. Bergonund ran forward to the bushes.)Tj T* (He had helm and shield, a sword at his girdle, a halberd in his hand. Egil was there before him in the)Tj T* (bushes, but no bear.)Tj ET endstream endobj 218 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 220 0 obj << /Length 3719 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (And when he saw where Bergonund was, he unsheathed his sword, and, taking the coil of cord)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (attached to the hilt, would it round his arm, and so let the sword hang. In his hand he grasped his)Tj T* (halberd, and then ran forward to meet Bergonund. Which when Bergonund saw, he quickened his pace)Tj T* (and cast his shield before him, and ere they met each hurled his halberd at the other.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil opposed the halberd with shield held aslant, so that the halberd with a cut tore out of the shield)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and flew into the ground. But Egil’s weapon came full on the middle of the shield, and went right)Tj T* (through it far up the blade, and the weapon was fast in the shield. Onund’s shield was thus)Tj T* (cumbersome. Then quickly did Egil grasp his sword-hilt. Onund also began to draw his sword; but ere)Tj T* (it was half drawn Egil pierced him with a thrust. Onund reeled at the blow; but Egil suddenly snatched)Tj T* (back his sword, and made a cut at Onund, well-nigh taking off his head. Then Egil took his halberd out)Tj T* (of the shield.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now Hadd and Frodi saw Bergonund’s fall, and ran thither. Egil turned to meet them. At Frodi he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (threw his halberd, which, piercing the shield, went into his breast and out at his back. At once he fell)Tj T* (back dead. Then, taking his sword, Egil turned against Hadd, and they exchanged but few blows ere)Tj T* (Hadd fell. Just then the herd-boys chanced to come up. Egil said to them: ’Watch you here by Onund)Tj T* (your master and his friends, that no beast or bird tear their bodies.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil then went his way, and before long eleven of his comrades met him, six staying to watch the ship.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (They asked him what success he had had. Whereupon he sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Long did we losers sit,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Losers through him who took)Tj T* (With greed the gold that once)Tj T* (To guard I better knew:)Tj T* (Till now Bergonund’s bane)Tj T* (My blade with wounds hath wrought,)Tj T* (And hidden earth in veil)Tj T* (Of Hadd’s and Frodi’s blood.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil said: ’We will now turn back to the farm, and act in warlike-wise, slaying all the men we)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (can, and taking all the booty we can come by.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They went to the farm, rushed into the house, and slew there fifteen or sixteen men. Some escaped by)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (running away. They plundered the place, destroying what they could not take with them. The cattle)Tj T* (they drove to the shore and slaughtered, putting on board as much as the boat would hold; then they)Tj T* (rowed out by the sound between the islands. Egil was now furious, so that there was no speaking with)Tj T* (him. He sat at the boat’s helm.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when they got further out in the firth towards Herdla, then came rowing out towards them)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Rognvald the king’s son with twelve more on the painted pinnace. They had now learnt that Egil’s)Tj T* (ship lay in Herdla-water, and they meant to take to Onund news of Egil’s whereabouts. And when Egil)Tj T* (saw the boat, he knew it at once. Straight for it he steered; and when the boats came together, the beak)Tj T* (of the cutter struck the side of the pinnace’s bow, which so heeled over that the water poured in on one)Tj T* (side and the boat filled. Egil leapt aboard, grasping his halberd, and cried to his men to let no one in)Tj T* (the pinnace escape with life. This was easy, for there was no defence. All were slain as they swam,)Tj T* (none escaped. Thirteen there perished, Rognvald and his comrades. Then Egil and his men rowed to)Tj T* (Herdla island, and Egil sang a stave:)Tj ET endstream endobj 221 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 223 0 obj << /Length 3324 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (’I fought, nor feared vengeance;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Falchion there reddened)Tj T* (Blood of son of Bloodaxe,)Tj T* (Bold king, and his queen.)Tj T* (Perish’d on one pinnace)Tj T* (Prince with twelve his liege-men,)Tj T* (Such stress of stern battle)Tj T* (Against them I stirred.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when Egil and his men came to Herdla, at once fully armed they ran up to the farm buildings. But)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (when Thorir and his household saw that, they at once ran away and saved themselves, all that could)Tj T* (go, men and women. Egil’s party plundered the place of all they could lay hands on; then they rowed)Tj T* (out to their ship. Nor had they long to wait ere a breeze blew off the land. They made ready to sail.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when all was ready for sailing, Egil went up into the island. He took in his hand a hazel-pole, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (went to a rocky eminence that looked inward to the mainland. Then he took a horse’s head and fixed it)Tj T* (on the pole. After that, in solemn form of curse, he thus spake: ’Here set I up a curse-pole, and this)Tj T* (curse I turn on king Eric and queen Gunnhilda. \(Here he turned the horse’s head landwards.\) This)Tj T* (curse I turn also on the guardian-spirits who dwell in this land, that they may all wander astray, nor)Tj T* (reach or find their home till they have driven out of the land king Eric and Gunnhilda.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (This spoken, he planted the pole down in a rift of the rock, and let it stand there. The horse’s head he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (turned inwards to the mainland; but on the pole he cut runes, expressing the whole form of curse.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this Egil went aboard the ship. They made sail, and sailed out to sea. Soon the breeze freshened,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and blew strong from a good quarter; so the ship ran on apace. Then sang Egil:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Forest-foe, fiercely blowing,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Flogs hard and unceasing)Tj T* (With sharp storm the sea-way)Tj T* (That ship’s stern doth plow.)Tj T* (The wind, willow-render,)Tj T* (With icy gust ruthless)Tj T* (Our sea-swan doth buffet)Tj T* (O’er bowsprit and beak.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Their voyage sped well; from the main they came into Borgar-firth, brought their ship into the haven,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (carried their baggage on shore. Egil then went home to Borg; but his crew found them lodging.)Tj T* (Skallagrim was now old and weak with age. Egil took the management of the property and care of the )Tj T* (house.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 208.2001 Tm (Chapter 61 - Death of Skallagrim.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 184.0001 Tm (There was a man named Thorgeir. He had to wife Thordis Yngvar’s daughter, Egil’s mother’s sister.)Tj T* (Thorgeir dwelt on Swan-ness at Lambstead. He had come out to Iceland with Yngvar. He was wealthy)Tj T* (and much honoured of men. Thorgeir and his wife had a son Thord, who was dwelling at Lambstead)Tj T* (after his father, when Egil now came back to Iceland. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (It chanced in the autumn, shortly before winter, that Thord rode in to Borg to find Egil his kinsman;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and he bade him to a banquet. He had had ale brewed out at his home. Egil promised to go, and a day)Tj T* (was fixed about a week thence. So when the time came, Egil prepared to go, and with him Asgerdr his)Tj ET endstream endobj 224 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 227 0 obj << /Length 4179 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (wife; they were a company of ten or twelve in all.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But just when Egil was ready, Skallagrim went out with him, and embracing him before he mounted)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (said: ’You are late, methinks, Egil, in paying to me that money which king Athelstan sent me. What do)Tj T* (you mean to do with that money?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil answered, ’Are you very short of money, father? I did not know it. I shall at once let you have)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (silver, when I know you need it; but I know that you still have in your keeping one or two chests full)Tj T* (of silver.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I suppose,’ said Skallagrim, ’you think that we have made our division of the movable property. You)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (must now be content if I do what I like with that money I have in keeping.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil answered: ’You cannot think you need to ask any leave from me in this; for you will choose to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (have it your own way, whatever I may say.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil rode away till he came to Lambstead, where he was made heartily welcome; he was to be)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (there three nights. That same evening that Egil left home, Skallagrim had a horse saddled. He then)Tj T* (rode out just when others were going to bed. When he went away, he bore before him on his knees a)Tj T* (very large chest; but under his arm he carried a brazen kettle. It has been since held for certain that he)Tj T* (let down one or both into Krum’s bog-hole, and dropped a large stone slab atop of them. Skallagrim)Tj T* (came home about midnight, and then went to his place and lay down in his clothes. But in the)Tj T* (morning, when it was light and people were dressed, there sat Skallagrim forward on the seat’s edge,)Tj T* (already dead, and so stiff that they could not straighten him nor move him, though they tried all they )Tj T* (could.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then a man was put on horseback, who galloped off as hard as he might to Lambstead. At once he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sought Egil, and told him these tidings. Then Egil took his weapons and clothes and rode home,)Tj T* (reaching Borg by eventide. And at once on dismounting he went in, and to the passage that was round)Tj T* (the hall, with doors leading from the passage to the seats inside. Egil went on to the chief seat, and)Tj T* (took Skallagrim by the shoulders, and forced him backwards, and laid him down in the seat, and)Tj T* (rendered then the services to the dead. Then Egil bade them take digging tools and break open the wall)Tj T* (on the south side. When this was done, then Egil supported the head and others the feet of Skallagrim;)Tj T* (and so they bore him athwart the house out through the breach in the wall just made. Then they bore)Tj T* (him immediately down to Nausta-ness. There for the night a tent was set over the body; but in the)Tj T* (morning with flood-tide Skallagrim was put on a boat and rowed out to Digra-ness. There Egil had a)Tj T* (mound raised on the point of the ness. Therein was laid Skallagrim, with his horse, his weapons, and)Tj T* (his smithy tools. It is not told that any valuables were laid in the mound beside him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil took the heritage, lands and chattels. Thenceforward he ruled the house. With Egil there was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thordis, daughter of Thorolf and Asgerdr.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 197.2002 Tm (Chapter 62 - Egil’s voyage to England.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 173.0002 Tm (King Eric ruled over Norway one year after the death of his father king Harold, before Hacon)Tj T* (Athelstan’s foster-son, another son of Harold, came out of the west from England; and in that same)Tj T* (summer Egil Skallagrimsson went to Iceland. Hacon went northwards to Throndheim. He was there)Tj T* (accepted as king. He and Eric were for the winter both king in Norway. But in the following spring)Tj T* (each gathered an army. Hacon had by far the larger numbers; the reason of this was that he made it law)Tj T* (in the land that every man should own his patrimony, where king Harold had enslaved all, rich and)Tj T* (poor alike. 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And when summer came, Egil let it be)Tj T* (known that he meant to make ready his ship for a voyage out in the summer. He then got a crew. He)Tj T* (purposed to sail to England. They were thirty men on the ship. Asgerdr remained behind, and took)Tj T* (charge of the house. Egil’s purpose was to seek king Athelstan and look after the promise that he had)Tj T* (made to Egil at their last parting.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (It was late ere Egil was ready, and when he put to sea, the winds delayed him. Autumn then came on,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and rough weather set in. They sailed past the north coast of the Orkneys. Egil would not put in there,)Tj T* (for he thought king Eric’s power would be supreme all over the islands. Then they sailed southwards)Tj T* (past Scotland, and had great storms and cross winds. Weathering the Scotch coast they held on)Tj T* (southwards along England; but on the evening of a day, as darkness came on, it blew a gale. Before)Tj T* (they were aware, breakers were both seaward and ahead. There was nothing for it but to make for land,)Tj T* (and this they did. Under sail they ran ashore, and came to land at Humber-mouth. All the men were)Tj T* (saved, and most of the cargo, but as for the ship, that was broken to pieces.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When they found men to speak with, they learnt these tidings, which Egil thought good, that with king)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Athelstan all was well and with his kingdom: but other tidings were there which Egil thought)Tj T* (dangerous, to wit, that king Eric Bloodaxe was there and Gunnhilda, and they had the government of)Tj T* (the province, and Eric was but a short way up the country in the town of York. This also Egil learnt,)Tj T* (that lord Arinbjorn was there with the king, and in great friendship with him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when Egil got to know these tidings, he resolved what to do. He thought he had little hope of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (escape, though he should try to conceal himself and to go disguised as long as he might till he were)Tj T* (clear of Eric’s dominions. For he was at that time easily known by such as should see him. He thought)Tj T* (also it were a mean man’s fate to be captured in such flight. So he took a bold heart, and resolved that)Tj T* (at once, in that very night when they came there, he would get him a horse and ride to the town. He)Tj T* (came there in the evening, and rode at once into the town. He had now a hood drawn over his helm,)Tj T* (and was fully armed.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil inquired where in the town Arinbjorn was housed. It was told him. Thither he rode to the house.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (When he came to the hall-door, he dismounted from his horse, and found a man to speak to. It was told)Tj T* (him that Arinbjorn sat at meat.)Tj ET endstream endobj 231 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 233 0 obj << /Length 3135 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil said: ’I would fain, good fellow, you should go into the hall and ask Arinbjorn whether he will)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (rather speak without or within to Egil Skallagrimsson.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The man said: ’’Tis but little trouble for me to do this errand.’)Tj T* (He went into the hall, and spoke quite loud: ’There is a man come here out before the door,’ said he,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’big as a giant, and he begged me go in and ask whether thou wouldst rather without or within speak to)Tj T* (Egil Skallagrimsson.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn said: ’Go and beg him to bide without, nor shall he need to bide long.’)Tj T* (He did as Arinbjorn told him, went out and said what had been said to him.)Tj T* (Arinbjorn bade take up the tables; then went he out and all his house-carles with him.)Tj T* (And when Arinbjorn met Egil, he greeted him well, and asked why he was come there.)Tj T* (Egil in few words told him clearly of his journey: ’And now you shall see what counsel I ought to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (take, if you will give me any help.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Have you,’ said Arinbjorn, ’before you came to this house met any men in the town who are likely to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (have known you?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’None,’ said Egil.)Tj T* (’Let men then take their weapons,’ said Arinbjorn.)Tj T* (They did so. But when all were armed, then went they to the king’s house. And when they came to the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (hall, then Arinbjorn knocked at the door, asking them to open, and saying who was there. The)Tj T* (door-keepers at once opened the door. The king was sitting at table.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn then bade that they should go in twelve in number, naming for this Egil and ten others.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’Now shall you, Egil, bring the king your head and clasp his foot, but I will be your spokesman.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then they went in. Arinbjorn went before the king and saluted him. The king received him, and asked)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (what he would have.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn said: ’I lead hither one who has come a long way to seek thee in thy place, and to be)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (reconciled to thee. Great is this honour to thee, my lord, when thine enemies travel of their own free)Tj T* (will from other lands, and deem they cannot endure thy wrath though thou be nowhere near. Now)Tj T* (show thyself princely to this man. Let him get of thee good terms, seeing that he hath so magnified)Tj T* (thine honour, as thou now mayst see, by braving many seas and dangers to come hither from his own)Tj T* (home. No compulsion drove him to this journey, nought but goodwill to thee.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then the king looked round, and saw over men’s heads where Egil stood. The king knew him at once,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and, darting a keen glance at him, said: ’How wert thou so bold, Egil, that thou daredst to come before)Tj T* (me? Thy last parting from me was such that of life thou couldst have from me no hope.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then went Egil up to the table, and clasped the foot of the king. He then sang:)Tj T* (’With cross-winds far cruising)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (I came on my wave-horse,)Tj T* (Eric England’s warder)Tj ET endstream endobj 234 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 236 0 obj << /Length 3570 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Eager soon to see.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Now wielder of wound-flash,)Tj T* (Wight dauntless in daring,)Tj T* (That strong strand of Harold’s)Tj T* (Stout lineage I meet.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (King Eric said: ’I need not to count the crimes on thy hands, for they are so many and great that each)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (one might well warrant that thou go not hence alive. Thou hast nothing else to expect but that here)Tj T* (thou must die. This thou mightest know before, that thou wouldst get no terms from me.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Gunnhilda said: ’Why shall not Egil be slain at once? Rememberest thou no more, O king, what Egil)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (hath done to thee, slain thy friends and kin, ay, even thine own son to boot, and cursed thyself? Where)Tj T* (ever was it known that a king was thus dealt with?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn said: ’If Egil have spoken evil of the king, for that he can now atone in words of praise that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (shall live for all time.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Gunnhilda said: ’We will hear none of his praise. O king, bid Egil be led out and beheaded. I will)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (neither hear his words nor see him.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then said Arinbjorn: ’The king will not let himself be egged on to all thy dastardly work. He will not)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (have Egil slain by night, for night-slaying is murder.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king said: ’So shall it be, Arinbjorn, as thou demandest. Egil shall live this night. Take thou him)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (home with thee, and bring him to me in the morning.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn thanked the king for his words: ’We hope, my lord, that henceforth Egil’s cause will take a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (better turn. And though Egil has done great wrong against thee, yet look thou on this, that he has)Tj T* (suffered much from thee and thy kin. King Harold thy father took the life of Thorolf, a man of renown,)Tj T* (Egil’s father’s brother, for the slander of bad men, for no crime at all. And thou, O king, didst break)Tj T* (the law in Egil’s case for the sake of Bergonund; nay further thou didst wish to doom his death, and)Tj T* (didst slay his men, and plunder all his goods, and withal didst make him an outlaw and drive him from)Tj T* (the land. And Egil is one who will stand no teasing. But in every cause under judgment one must look)Tj T* (on the act with its reasons. I will now have Egil in keeping for the night.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Arinbjorn and Egil went back to the house, and when they came in they two went into a small)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (upper room and talked over this matter. Arinbjorn said: ’The king just now was very wroth, yet)Tj T* (methought his mood rather softened before the end, and fortune will now decide what may be the)Tj T* (upshot. I know that Gunnhilda will set all her mind on marring your cause. Now I would fain that we)Tj T* (take this counsel: that you be awake through the night, and compose a song of praise about king Eric. I)Tj T* (should think it had best be a poem of twenty stanzas, and you might recite it to-morrow when we come)Tj T* (before the king. Thus did Bragi my kinsman, when he was under the wrath of Bjorn king of Sweden;)Tj T* (he composed a poem of praise about him in one night, and for it received his head. Now may we also)Tj T* (have the same luck with the king, that you may make your peace with him, if you can offer him the)Tj T* (poem of praise.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said: ’I shall try this counsel that you wish, but ’twas the last thing I ever meant, to sing king)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Eric’s praises.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn bade him try.)Tj ET endstream endobj 237 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 239 0 obj << /Length 4340 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Then Arinbjorn went away, and had food and drink carried to the upper room. Egil was there alone for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the night. Arinbjorn went to his men, and they sate over drink till midnight. Then Arinbjorn and his)Tj T* (men went to the sleeping chambers, but before undressing he went up to the room to Egil, and asked)Tj T* (how he was getting on with the poem.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said that nothing was done. ’Here,’ said he, ’has sate a swallow by the window and twittered all)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (night, so that I have never got rest for that same.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Whereupon Arinbjorn went away and out by the door leading up to the house-roof, and he sate by the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (window of the upper room where the bird had before sate. He saw that something of a shape)Tj T* (witch-possest moved away from the roof. Arinbjorn sate there by the window all night till dawn. But)Tj T* (after Arinbjorn had come there, Egil composed all the poem, and got it so by heart that he could recite)Tj T* (it in the morning when he met Arinbjorn. They watched for a fit time to go before the king.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 555.8 Tm (Chapter 63 - Egil recites the poem.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 531.6001 Tm (King Eric went to table according to his wont, and much people were with him. And when Arinbjorn)Tj T* (knew this, then went he with all his followers fully armed to the king’s palace while the king sate at)Tj T* (table. Arinbjorn craved entrance into the hall; it was granted. He and Egil went in with half of his)Tj T* (followers, but the other half stood without before the door. Arinbjorn saluted the king; the king)Tj T* (received him well. Arinbjorn spoke: ’Here now is come Egil. He has not sought to run away in the)Tj T* (night. Nor would we fain know, my lord, what his lot is to be. I hope thou wilt let him get good from)Tj T* (my words, for I think it a matter of great moment to me that Egil gain terms from thee. I have so acted)Tj T* (\(as was right\) that neither in word nor deed have I spared aught whereby thy honour should be made)Tj T* (greater than before. I have also abandoned all my possessions, kinsmen, and friends that I had in)Tj T* (Norway, and followed thee when all other barons deserted thee; and herein do I what is meet, for thou)Tj T* (hast often done great good to me.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then spoke Gunnhilda: ’Cease, Arinbjorn, nor prate so at length of this. Thou hast done much good to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king Eric, and this he hath fully rewarded. Thou owest far more duty to king Eric than to Egil. It is not)Tj T* (for thee to ask that Egil go unpunished hence from king Eric’s presence, seeing what crimes he hath )Tj T* (wrought.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then said Arinbjorn: ’If thou, O king, and thou Gunnhilda, if ye two have resolved that Egil shall here)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (get no terms, then is this the manly course, to give him respite and leave to go for a week, that he may)Tj T* (look out for himself; of his own free will any way he came hither to seek you, and therefore hoped for)Tj T* (peace. Thereafter, this done, let your dealings together end as they may.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Gunnhilda said, ’Well can I see by this, Arinbjorn, that thou art more faithful to Egil than to king Eric.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (If Egil is to ride hence for a week, then will he in this time be come to king Athelstan. But king Eric)Tj T* (cannot now hide this from himself, that every king is now stronger than is he, whereas a little while)Tj T* (ago it had been deemed incredible that king Eric would not have the will and energy to avenge his)Tj T* (wrongs on such a one as Egil.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Arinbjorn: ’No one will call Eric a greater man for slaying a yeoman’s son, a foreigner, who has)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (freely come into his power. But if the king wishes to achieve greatness hereby, then will I help him in)Tj T* (this, so that these tidings shall be thought more worthy of record; for I and Egil will now back each)Tj T* (other, so that we must both be met at once. Thou wilt then, O king, dearly buy the life of Egil, when)Tj T* (we be all laid dead on the field, I and my followers. Far other treatment should I have expected of thee,)Tj T* (than that thou wouldst prefer seeing me laid dead on the earth to granting me the boon I crave of one)Tj T* (man’s life.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 240 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 242 0 obj << /Length 1834 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Then answered the king: ’A wondrous eager champion art thou, Arinbjorn, in this thy helping of Egil.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Loth were I to do thee scathe, if it comes to this; if thou wilt rather give away thine own life than that)Tj T* (he be slain. 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buckler flings)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (From arm beset with rings,)Tj T* (Sword-play-stirrer good,)Tj T* (Spiller of foemen’s blood.)Tj T* (Waxing everywhere)Tj T* (\(Witness true I bear\),)Tj T* (East o’er billows came)Tj T* (Eric’s sounding name.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (15.)Tj T* (’Bent the king his yew,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Bees wound-bearing flew:)Tj T* (Eric on the wave)Tj T* (To wolves flesh-banquet gave.)Tj ET endstream endobj 249 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 251 0 obj << /Length 1476 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (16.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Yet to make more plain)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (I to men were fain)Tj T* (High-soul’d mood of king,)Tj T* (But must swiftly sing.)Tj T* (Weapons when he takes,)Tj T* (The battle-goddess wakes,)Tj T* (On ships’ shielded side)Tj T* (Streams the battle-tide.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (17.)Tj T* (’Gems from wrist he gives,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Glittering armlets rives:)Tj T* (Lavish ring-despiser)Tj T* (Loves 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And when the song of)Tj T* (praise was ended, then spake the king: ’Right well was the poem recited; and now, Arinbjorn, I have)Tj T* (resolved about the cause between me and Egil, how it shall go. Thou hast pleaded Egil’s cause with)Tj T* (great eagerness, since thou offerest to risk a conflict with me. Now shall I for thy sake do what thou)Tj T* (hast asked, letting Egil go from my land safe and unhurt. But thou, Egil, so order thy going that, after)Tj T* (leaving my presence and this hall, thou never come before my eyes, nor my sons’ eyes, nor be ever in)Tj T* (the way of myself or my people. But I give thee now thy head this time for this reason, that thou)Tj T* (camest freely into my power. I will do no dastardly deed on thee; yet know thou this for sure, that this)Tj T* (is no reconciliation with me or my sons or any of our kin who wish to wreak their vengeance.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then sang Egil:)Tj T* (’Loth am I in nowise,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Though in features loathly,)Tj T* (Helm-capt head in pardon)Tj T* (From high king to take.)Tj T* (Who can boast that ever)Tj T* (Better gift he won him,)Tj T* (From a lordly sovereign’s)Tj T* (Noble-minded son?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn thanked the king with many fair words for the honour and friendship that he had shown him.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Then they two, Arinbjorn and Egil, went back to Arinbjorn’s house. After that Arinbjorn bade horses)Tj T* (be made ready for his people. He rode away with Egil, and a hundred fully armed men with him.)Tj T* (Arinbjorn rode with that force till they came to king Athelstan, where they were well received. The)Tj T* (king asked Egil to remain with him, and inquired how it had gone between him and king Eric.)Tj T* (Whereupon Egil sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Egil his eyes black-browed)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (From Eric, raven’s friend,)Tj T* (Welcomed. Wise help therein)Tj T* (Wife’s loyal kin lent.)Tj T* (My head, throne of helmet,)Tj T* (An heritage noble,)Tj T* (As erst, from rough rainstorm)Tj T* (To rescue I knew.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But at the parting of Arinbjorn and Egil, Egil gave Arinbjorn those two gold rings that king Athelstan)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had given him, whereof each weighed a mark. And Arinbjorn gave Egil the sword called Dragvandill.)Tj T* (This had been given to Arinbjorn by Thorolf Skallagrimsson; but before that Skallagrim had received)Tj T* (it from Thorolf his brother; but to Thorolf the sword was given by Grim Shaggy-skin, son of Kettle)Tj T* (Hæing. Kettle Hæing had owned the sword and used it in his single combats, and no sword was there)Tj T* (more biting. Egil and Arinbjorn parted with much affection. Arinbjorn went home to king Eric at)Tj T* (York; but Egil’s comrades and shipmates had good peace there, and disposed of their cargo under)Tj T* (Arinbjorn’s protection. But as winter wore on they moved south to England and joined Egil.)Tj ET endstream endobj 255 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 258 0 obj << /Length 3739 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 65 - Egil goes to Norway.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (There was a baron in Norway named Eric Allwise. He married Thora, daughter of lord Thorir, sister of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Arinbjorn. He owned property eastwards in Vik. He was a very wealthy man, much honoured, of)Tj T* (prophetic foresight. Son of Eric and Thora was Thorstein; he was brought up with Arinbjorn, and was)Tj T* (now fully grown, though quite young. He had gone westwards to England with Arinbjorn.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But in that same summer when Egil had come to England these tidings were heard from Norway, that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Eric Allwise was dead, but the king’s stewards had taken his inheritance, and claimed it for the king.)Tj T* (These tidings when Arinbjorn and Thorstein heard, they resolved that Thorstein should go east and see)Tj T* (after the inheritance.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So when spring came on and men made ready their ships who meant to travel from land to land, then)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thorstein went south to London, and there found king Athelstan. He produced tokens and a message)Tj T* (from Arinbjorn to the king and also to Egil, that he might be his advocate with the king, so that king)Tj T* (Athelstan might send a message from himself to king Hacon, his foster-son, advising that Thorstein)Tj T* (should get his inheritance and possessions in Norway. King Athelstan was easily persuaded to this,)Tj T* (because Arinbjorn was known to him for good.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then came Egil also to speak with king Athelstan, and told him his intention.)Tj T* (’I wish this summer,’ said he, ’to go eastwards to Norway and see after the property of which king)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Eric and Bergonund robbed me. Atli the Short, Bergonund’s brother, is now in possession. I know)Tj T* (that, if a message of yours be added, I shall get law in this matter.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king said that Egil should rule his own goings. ’But best, methinks, were it,’ he said, ’for thee to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (be with me and be made defender of my land and command my army. I will promote thee to great )Tj T* (honour.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil answered: ’This offer I deem most desirable to take. I will say yea to it and not nay. Yet have I)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (first to go to Iceland, and see after my wife and the property that I have there.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (King Athelstan gave then to Egil a good merchant-ship and a cargo therewith; there was aboard for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (lading wheat and honey, and much money’s worth in other wares. And when Egil made ready his ship)Tj T* (for sea, then Thorstein Eric’s son settled to go with him, he of whom mention was made before, who)Tj T* (was afterwards called Thora’s son. And when they were ready they sailed, king Athelstan and Egil)Tj T* (parting with much friendship.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil and his company had a prosperous voyage; they came to Norway eastwards in Vik, and sailed)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (their ship right into Osloar-firth. Up on land there Thorstein had estates, and also inwards as far as)Tj T* (Raumarik. And when Thorstein landed there, he then preferred his claim to his father’s property before)Tj T* (the stewards who were settled on his farm. Many lent help to Thorstein in this matter: a meeting was)Tj T* (held about it: Thorstein had there many kinsmen of renown. The end was that it was referred to the)Tj T* (king’s decision, Thorstein meanwhile taking to him the safe-keeping of his father’s possessions.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (For winter lodgment Egil went to Thorstein’s with eleven more. Thither to Thorstein’s house was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (moved the wheat and honey; a merry time of it they had that winter. Thorstein kept house in grand)Tj T* (style, for provisions were in plenty.)Tj ET endstream endobj 259 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 261 0 obj << /Length 4345 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 66 - Egil and Thorstein go before the king.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (King Hacon Athelstan’s foster-son then ruled Norway, as was told before. That winter the king held)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (court in the north in Throndheim. But as the winter wore on, Thorstein started on his journey and Egil)Tj T* (with him, and they had about thirty men. When ready they first went to Upland, thence northwards by)Tj T* (the Dovre-fell to Throndheim, where they came before king Hacon. They declared their errand with)Tj T* (the king. Thorstein explained his cause, and produced witnesses that he was rightful owner of all that)Tj T* (inheritance which he claimed. The king received this matter well, and let Thorstein obtain his)Tj T* (possessions, and therewith he was made a baron of the king even as his father had been.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil also went before king Hacon and declared his errand, giving therewith king Athelstan’s message)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and tokens. Egil claimed property that had belonged to Bjorn Yeoman, lands and chattels. Half of this)Tj T* (property he claimed for himself and Asgerdr his wife; and he offered witness and oaths to his cause.)Tj T* (He said, too, that he had set all this before king Eric, adding that he had then not got law, owing to)Tj T* (king Eric’s power and the prompting of Gunnhilda. Egil set forth the whole cause which had been tried)Tj T* (at the Gula-thing. He then begged the king to grant him law in this matter.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (King Hacon answered: ’This have I heard, that my brother Eric and with him Gunnhilda both assert)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that thou, Egil, hast cast a stone beyond thy strength in thy dealings with them. Now, methinks, though)Tj T* (I and Eric have not the luck to agree, yet thou mightest be well content should I do nothing in this )Tj T* (cause.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said: ’Thou mayest not, O king, be silent about causes so great, for all men here in the land,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (natives or foreigners, must hearken to thy bidding or banning. I have heard that thou establishest here)Tj T* (in the land law and right for everyone. Now I know that thou wilt let me get these even as other men.)Tj T* (Methinks I am of birth and have strength of kinsfolk enough here in the land to win right against Atli)Tj T* (the Short. But as for the cause between me and king Eric, there is this to say to thee, that I went before)Tj T* (him, and that we so parted that he bade me go in peace whither I would. I will offer thee, my lord, my)Tj T* (following and service. I know that there will be here with thee men who can in no wise be thought of)Tj T* (more martial appearance than I am. My foreboding is that it will not be long ere thou and king Eric)Tj T* (meet, if ye both live. And I shall be surprised if thou come not then to think that Gunnhilda has borne)Tj T* (too many sons.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The king said: ’Thou shalt not, Egil, become my liege-man. Thy kin have hewn far too many gaps in)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (our house for it to be well that thou shouldst settle here in this land. Go thou out to Iceland, and dwell)Tj T* (there on thy father’s inheritance. No harm will there touch thee from our kin; but in this land ’tis to be)Tj T* (looked for that through all thy days our kin will be the more powerful. Yet for the sake of king)Tj T* (Athelstan, my foster-father, thou shalt have peace here in the land, and shalt get law and land-right, for)Tj T* (I know that he holds thee right dear.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil thanked the king for his words, and prayed that the king would give him sure tokens to Thord in)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Aurland, or to other barons in Sogn and Hordaland. The king said that this should be done.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 174.6001 Tm (Chapter 67 - Egil slays Ljot the Pale.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 150.4001 Tm (Thorstein and Egil made ready for their journey so soon as they had ended their errand. They then)Tj T* (went their way back, and when they came south over the Dovre-fell, then said Egil that he would go)Tj T* (down to Raumsdale, and after that south by way of the sounds. ’I will,’ said he, ’finish my business in)Tj T* (Sogn and Hordaland, for I would fain in the summer take my ship out to Iceland.’ Thorstein bade him)Tj T* (settle his journey as he would. So Thorstein and Egil separated.)Tj ET endstream endobj 262 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 264 0 obj << /Length 4039 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Thorstein went south by the dales all the way till he came to his estates. There he produced the tokens)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of the king and his message before the stewards, that they should give up all that property which they)Tj T* (had taken and Thorstein claimed. No one spoke against it, and he then took all his property.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil went his way, they being twelve in all. They came on to Raumsdale, there got them conveyance,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and then went south to Mæri. Nothing is told of their journey before they came to the island called)Tj T* (Hod, and went to pass the night at a farm named Bindheim. This was a well-to-do homestead, in which)Tj T* (dwelt a baron named Fridgeir. He was young in years, and had but lately inherited his father’s)Tj T* (property. His mother was named Gyda; she was a sister of lord Arinbjorn, a woman of a noble)Tj T* (presence and wealthy. She managed the house for her son Fridgeir: they lived in grand style. There)Tj T* (Egil and his company found good welcome. In the evening Egil sat next to Fridgeir, and his comrades)Tj T* (outside him. There was much drink and sumptuous viands. Gyda, the house-mistress, in the evening)Tj T* (had some talk with Egil. She inquired about Arinbjorn, her brother, and other of her kinsmen and)Tj T* (friends who had gone to England with Arinbjorn. Egil answered her inquiries. She asked what tidings)Tj T* (had befallen in Egil’s journey. He told her plainly. Then he sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Gloomy on me glowered)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (In gruesome wrath a king:)Tj T* (But cuckoo faints and fails not)Tj T* (For vulture flapping near.)Tj T* (Aid good from Arinbjorn,)Tj T* (As oft, and peace I gat.)Tj T* (He falls not whom true friends)Tj T* (Help forward on his way.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil was very cheerful that evening, but Fridgeir and his household were rather silent. Egil saw there a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (maiden fair and well dressed; he was told that she was Fridgeir’s sister. The maiden was sad and wept)Tj T* (constantly that evening, which they thought strange. They were there for the night, but in the morning)Tj T* (the wind was blowing hard, and there was no putting to sea. They need a boat to take them from the)Tj T* (island. Then went Fridgeir and with him Gyda to Egil, and offered that he and his comrades should)Tj T* (stay there till it was good travelling weather, and should have thence such help for the journey as they)Tj T* (needed. This Egil accepted. They stayed there weather-bound for three nights, most hospitably)Tj T* (entertained. After that the weather became calm.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil and his men rose up early in the morning and made ready; then went to meat, and ale was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (given them to drink, and they sat awhile. Then they took their clothes. Egil stood up and thanked the)Tj T* (master and mistress of the house for their entertainment; then they went out. The master and his)Tj T* (mother went out into the path with them. Gyda then went to speak with her son Fridgeir, and talked)Tj T* (low with him, Egil standing the while and waiting for them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said to the maiden: ’Why weep you, maiden? I never see you cheerful.’)Tj T* (She could not answer, but wept the more. Fridgeir now said to his mother aloud: ’I will not now ask)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (this. They are even now ready for their journey.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Gyda went to Egil and said: ’I will tell you, Egil, how things stand here with us. There is a man)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (named Ljot the Pale. He is a Berserk and a duellist; he is hated. He came here and asked my daughter)Tj T* (to wife; but we answered at once, refusing the match. Whereupon he challenged my son Fridgeir to)Tj T* (wager of battle; and he has to go to-morrow to this combat on the island called Vors. Now I wished,)Tj T* (Egil, that you should go to the combat with Fridgeir. It would soon be shown if Arinbjorn were here in)Tj T* (the land, that we should not endure the overbearing of such a fellow as is Ljot.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 265 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 267 0 obj << /Length 2873 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil said: ’’Tis but my bounden duty, lady, for the sake of Arinbjorn thy kinsman that I go, if Fridgeir)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (thinks this any help to him.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Herein you do well,’ said Gyda. ’So we will go back into the hall, and be all together for the whole )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (day.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil and the rest went into the hall and drank. They sate there for the day. But in the evening)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (came those friends of Fridgeir who had appointed to go with him, and there was a numerous company)Tj T* (for the night, and a great banquet. On the morrow Fridgeir made ready to go, and many with him, Egil)Tj T* (being one of the party. It was now good travelling weather.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They now start, and soon come to the island. There was a fair plain near the sea, which was to be the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (place of combat. The ground was marked out by stones lying round in a ring. Soon came thither Ljot)Tj T* (and his party. Then he made him ready for the combat. He had shield and sword. Ljot was a man of)Tj T* (vast size and strong. And as he came forward on the field to the ground of combat, a fit of Berserk fury)Tj T* (seized him; he began to bellow hideously, and bit his shield. Fridgeir was not a tall man; he was)Tj T* (slenderly built, comely in face, not strong. He had not been used to combats. But when Egil saw Ljot,)Tj T* (then he sang a stave:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’It fits not young Fridgeir)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (To fight with this warrior,)Tj T* (Grim gnawer of shield-rim,)Tj T* (By his gods who doth curse.)Tj T* (I better may meet him,)Tj T* (May rescue the maiden;)Tj T* (Full fearsome he stareth,)Tj T* (Yet "fey" are his eyes.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Ljot saw where Egil stood, and heard his words. He said: ’Come thou hither, big man, to the holm, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (fight with me, if thou hast a wish that way. That is a far more even match than that I should fight with)Tj T* (Fridgeir, for I shall deem me no whit the greater man though I lay him low on earth.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then sang Egil:)Tj T* (’Ljot asketh but little,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Loth were I to baulk him.)Tj T* (Pale wight, my hand pliant)Tj T* (Shall play on his mail.)Tj T* (Come, busk we for combat;)Tj T* (Nor quarter expect thou:)Tj T* (Strife-stirrer, in Mæri)Tj T* (Stern shield-cutting ours.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this Egil made him ready for combat with Ljot. Egil had the shield that he was wont to have, was)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (girded with the sword which he called Adder, but in his hand he had Dragvandill. He went in over the)Tj T* (boundary that marked the battle-ground, but Ljot was then not ready. Egil shook his sword and sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Hew we with hilt-wands flashing,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Hack we shield with falchion,)Tj T* (Test we moony targets,)Tj T* (Tinge red sword in blood.)Tj T* (Ljot from life be sundered,)Tj ET endstream endobj 268 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 270 0 obj << /Length 3092 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Low stern play shall lay him,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Quelled the quarrel-seeker:)Tj T* (Come, eagles, to your prey.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Ljot came forward on the field and declared the law of combat, that he should ever after bear the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (name of dastard who should draw back outside the boundary stones that were set up in a ring round the)Tj T* (field of combat. This done, they closed, and Egil dealt a blow at Ljot, which Ljot parried with his)Tj T* (shield, but Egil then dealt blow upon blow so fast that Ljot got no chance for a blow in return. He drew)Tj T* (back to get room for a stroke, but Egil pressed as quickly after him, dealing blows with all his vigour.)Tj T* (Ljot went out beyond the boundary stones far into the field. So ended the first bout. Then Ljot begged)Tj T* (for a rest. Egil let it be so. They stopped therefore and rested. And Egil sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Free-handed gold-giver,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Back goeth yon champion,)Tj T* (In craven fear crouches)Tj T* (This wealth-craving wight.)Tj T* (Not strongly fights spearmen)Tj T* (His strokes who delayeth.)Tj T* (Lo beat by a bald-head)Tj T* (This bragging pest flies.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (These were the laws of wager of battle in those times, that when one man challenged another on any)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (claim, and the challenger gained the victory, then he should have as prize of victory that which he had)Tj T* (claimed in his challenge. But if he were vanquished, then should he ransom himself for such price as)Tj T* (should be fixed. But if he were slain on the field, then had he forfeited all his possessions, and he who)Tj T* (slew him in the combat should take his inheritance. This was also law, that if a foreigner died who had)Tj T* (no heir in the land, then that inheritance fell to the king’s treasury.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And now Egil bade Ljot be ready.)Tj T* (’I will,’ he said, ’that we now try to the uttermost this combat.’)Tj T* (Ljot sprang swiftly to his feet. Egil bounded at him and dealt at once a blow at him. He pressed him so)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (close, that he was driven back, and the shield shifted from before him. Then smote Egil at Ljot, and the)Tj T* (blow came on him above the knee, taking off his leg. Ljot then fell and soon expired. Then Egil went)Tj T* (to where Fridgeir and his party stood. He was heartily thanked for this work. Then sang Egil:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Fall’n lies the wolf-feeder,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Foul worker of mischief:)Tj T* (Ljot’s leg by skald sever’d)Tj T* (Leaves Fridgeir in peace.)Tj T* (From the free gold-giver)Tj T* (Guerdon none I seek me,)Tj T* (Sport I deem the spear-din,)Tj T* (Sport with such pale foe.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Ljot’s death was little mourned, for he had been a turbulent bully. He was a Swede by birth, and had)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (no kin there in the land. He had come thither and amassed him wealth by duels. He had slain many)Tj T* (worthy landowners, whom he had first challenged to wager of battle for their lands and heritages; he)Tj T* (had now become very wealthy both in lands and chattels.)Tj ET endstream endobj 271 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 273 0 obj << /Length 3947 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil went home with Fridgeir from the field of combat. He stayed there but a short time before going)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (south to Mæri. Egil and Fridgeir parted with much affection. Egil charged Fridgeir with the securing of)Tj T* (those lands that had belonged to Ljot. Egil went on his way and came to the Firths, whence he went)Tj T* (into Sogn to seek Thord in Aurland. Thord received him well; he declared his errand and the message)Tj T* (of king Hacon. These words of Egil were taken well by Thord, who promised him his help in this)Tj T* (matter. Egil remained there with Thord far into the spring.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 643.8 Tm (Chapter 68 - Of Egil’s journeyings.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 619.6 Tm (Egil went on southwards to Hordaland, taking for this journey a rowing vessel, and thereon thirty men.)Tj T* (They came on a day to Askr on Fenhring island. Egil went up to the house with twenty men, while ten)Tj T* (guarded the ship. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Atli the Short was there with some men. Egil bade him be called out and told that Egil Skallagrimsson)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had an errand with him. Atli took his weapons, as did all the fighting men that were there, and then)Tj T* (they went out.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil spoke: ’I am told, Atli, that you hold in keeping that property which of right belongs to me and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (my wife Asgerdr. You will belike have heard it talked of ere now how I claimed the inheritance of)Tj T* (Bjorn Yeoman, which Bergonund your brother kept from me. I am now come to look after that)Tj T* (property, lands and chattels, and to beg you to give it up and pay it into my hands.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Said Atli: ’Long have we heard, Egil, that you are a most unjust man, but now I shall come to prove it,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (if you mean to claim at my hands this property, which king Eric adjudged to Bergonund my brother.)Tj T* (King Eric had then power to bid and ban in this land. I was thinking now, Egil, that you would be)Tj T* (come here for this end, to offer me a fine for my brothers whose lives you took, and that you would)Tj T* (pay atonement for the pillage committed by you here at Askr. I would make answer to this proposal, if)Tj T* (you should plead this errand; but here to this other I can make none.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I shall then,’ said Egil, ’offer you, as I offered Onund, that Gula-thing laws decide our cause. Your)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brothers I declare to have fallen without claim for fine and through their own wrong deeds, because)Tj T* (they had first plundered me of law and land-right, and taken my property by force of arms. I have the)Tj T* (king’s leave herein to try the law with you in this cause. I summon you to the Gula-thing, there to have)Tj T* (lawful decision on this matter.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’To the Gula-thing,’ said Atli, ’I will come, and we can there speak of this matter.’)Tj T* (Hereupon Egil with his comrades went away. He went north to Sogn, then into Aurland to Thord, his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (wife’s kinsman, and there he stayed till the Gula-thing. And when men came to the Thing, then came)Tj T* (Egil thither. Atli the Short was also there. They began to declare their cause, and pleaded it before)Tj T* (those who were to judge. Egil made his demand of money due, but Atli offered against it as a lawful)Tj T* (defence the oath of twelve men that he, Atli, had in keeping no money that belonged to Egil. And)Tj T* (when Atli went before the court with his twelve who would swear, then went Egil to meet him, and)Tj T* (said that he would not accept Atli’s oaths for his own property. ’I will offer you other law, that we do)Tj T* (battle here at the Thing, and he shall have the property who wins the victory.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (This was also law, that Egil proposed, and ancient custom, that any man had a right to challenge)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (another to wager of battle, whether he were defendant in a cause or prosecutor.)Tj ET endstream endobj 274 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 276 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 (Atli said that he would not refuse this to do battle with Egil. ’For,’ said he, ’you propose what I ought)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to have proposed, seeing that I have enough loss to avenge on you. You have done to death my two)Tj T* (brothers, and far shall I be from upholding the right if I yield to you mine own possessions unlawfully)Tj T* (rather than fight with you when you offer me this choice.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So then Atli and Egil joined hands and pledged them to do battle, the victor to own the lands for which)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they had been disputing.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this they arrayed them for combat. Egil came forward with helm on head, and shield before him,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and halberd in hand, but his sword Dragvandill he suspended from his right arm. It was the custom)Tj T* (with those who fought in single combats so to arrange that the sword should need no drawing during)Tj T* (the fight, but be attached to the arm, to be ready at once when the combatant willed. Atli had the same)Tj T* (arming as Egil. He was experienced in single combats, was a strong man, and of a good courage. To)Tj T* (the field was led forth a bull, large and old ’sacrificial beast’ such was termed, to be slain by him who)Tj T* (won the victory. Sometimes there was one such ox, sometimes each combatant had his own led forth.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when they were ready for the combat, then ran they each at the other, and first they threw their)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (halberds, neither of which stood fast in the foeman’s shield, but both struck in the ground. Then took)Tj T* (they both to their swords, and went at it with a will, blow upon blow. Atli gave no ground. They smote)Tj T* (fast and hard, and full soon their shields were becoming useless. And when Atli’s shield was of no use,)Tj T* (then he cast it from him, and, grasping his sword with both hands, dealt blows as quickly as possible.)Tj T* (Egil fetched him a blow on the shoulder, but the sword bit not. He dealt another, and a third. It was)Tj T* (now easy to find parts in Atli that he could strike, since he had no cover; and Egil brandished and)Tj T* (brought down his sword with all his might, yet it bit not, strike he where he might. Then Egil saw that)Tj T* (nothing would be done this way, for his shield was now rendered useless. So Egil let drop both sword)Tj T* (and shield, and bounding on Atli, gripped him with his hands. Then the difference of strength was)Tj T* (seen, and Atli fell right back, but Egil went down prone upon him and bit through his throat. There)Tj T* (Atli died.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil leapt up at once and ran to where the victim stood; with one hand he gripped his lips, with the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (other his horn, and gave him such a wrench, that his feet slipped up and his neck was broken; after)Tj T* (which Egil went where his comrades stood, and then he sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I bared blue Dragvandill,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Who bit not the buckler,)Tj T* (Atli the Short so blunted)Tj T* (All edge by his spells.)Tj T* (Straining my strength I grappled,)Tj T* (Staggered the wordy foeman;)Tj T* (My tooth I bade bite him,)Tj T* (Best of swords at need.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil got possession of all those lands for which he had contended and claimed as rightfully)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (coming to his wife Asgerdr from her father. Nothing is told of further tidings at that Thing. Egil then)Tj T* (went first into Sogn and arranged about those lands that he now got into his own power. He remained)Tj T* (there for a great part of the spring. Afterwards he went with his comrades eastwards to Vik, then to)Tj T* (seek Thorstein, and was there for awhile.)Tj ET endstream endobj 277 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 279 0 obj << /Length 3862 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 69 - Egil comes out to Iceland.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (In the summer Egil prepared his ship, and, when all was ready, at once set sail for Iceland. His voyage)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sped well. He came to Borgar-firth and brought in his ship just below his own house. He had his cargo)Tj T* (conveyed home, and set up his ship. Egil stayed in his home that winter. He had now brought out very)Tj T* (great wealth, and was a very rich man. He had a large and lofty house. Egil was by no means)Tj T* (meddlesome with other men’s matters, nor generally presuming when here in Iceland; nor did any try)Tj T* (to encroach on what was his. Egil remained at home now for years not a few. Egil and Asgerdr had)Tj T* (children thus named: Bodvar a son, and another son Gunnar; Thorgerdr a daughter, and Bera. Their)Tj T* (youngest was Thorstein. All Egil’s children were of good promise and intelligence. Thorgerdr was the)Tj T* (eldest of the children, Bera the next.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 572.8 Tm (Chapter 70 - Egil goes abroad.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 548.6001 Tm (Egil heard tidings from east over the seas that Eric Bloodaxe had fallen in the west while freebooting;)Tj T* (but Gunnhilda and her sons and Eric’s had gone to Denmark, and all those that had followed Eric to)Tj T* (England had left that country. This, too, he heard, that Arinbjorn was now come to Norway. He had)Tj T* (taken again the grants and possessions that he had before, and had gotten great favour with the king.)Tj T* (Then Egil thought it desirable again to go to Norway. Besides this came the tidings that king Athelstan)Tj T* (was dead. His brother Edmund now ruled England.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So Egil made ready his ship, and got him a crew. Aunund Sjoni was among them, son of Ani of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Anabrekka. Aunund was tall, and the strongest of those men who were then in the country-side; nay,)Tj T* (some doubted whether he were not shape-strong. Aunund had often been on voyages from land to)Tj T* (land. He was somewhat older than Egil; there had long been friendship between the two. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when Egil was ready he put out to sea, and their voyage sped well; they came to Mid-Norway.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (And when they sighted land, they steered for the Firths. They soon got tidings from land, and it was)Tj T* (told them that Arinbjorn was at home on his estate.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil put his ship into the haven nearest to Arinbjorn’s house; then went he to seek Arinbjorn, and a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (most joyful meeting was theirs. Arinbjorn offered quarters to Egil and such of his men as he liked to)Tj T* (bring. This Egil accepted, and had his ship set up on rollers; but his crew found them quarters. Egil and)Tj T* (eleven with him went to Arinbjorn’s. Egil had caused to be made a long ship’s sail, elaborately)Tj T* (worked; this he gave to Arinbjorn, and yet other gifts of value. Egil was there for the winter, treated)Tj T* (with much honour.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the winter Egil went southwards to Sogn to collect his land-rents, staying there some time. After)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that he came north again to the Firths. Arinbjorn held a great Yule-feast, to which he bade his friends)Tj T* (and the neighbouring landowners. There was there much company and good cheer. Arinbjorn gave)Tj T* (Egil as a Yule-gift a trailing robe made of silk, and richly broidered with gold, studded with gold)Tj T* (buttons in front all down to the hem. Arinbjorn had had the robe made to fit Egil’s stature. Arinbjorn)Tj T* (gave also to Egil at Yule a complete suit newly made; it was cut of English cloth of many colours.)Tj T* (Friendly gifts of many kinds gave Arinbjorn at Yule to those who were his guests, for Arinbjorn was)Tj T* (beyond all men open-handed and noble.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil composed a stave:)Tj ET endstream endobj 280 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 282 0 obj << /Length 3430 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (’Warrior gave to poet)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Silken robe gold-glistering:)Tj T* (Never shall I find me)Tj T* (Friend of better faith.)Tj T* (Arinbjorn untiring)Tj T* (Earneth well his honours:)Tj T* (For his like the ages)Tj T* (Long may look in vain.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 617.4 Tm (Chapter 71 - Egil’s sadness.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 593.2 Tm (Egil after Yule-tide was taken with much sadness that he spake not a word. And when Arinbjorn)Tj T* (perceived this he began to talk with Egil, and asked what this sadness meant. ’I wish,’ said he, ’you)Tj T* (would let me know whether you are sick, or anything ails you, that I may find a remedy.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said: ’Sickness of body I have none; but I have much anxiety about this, how I shall get that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (property which I won when I slew Ljot the Pale northwards in Mæra. I am told that the king’s stewards)Tj T* (have taken up all that property, and claimed ownership thereof for the king. Now I would fain have)Tj T* (your help in the recovery of this.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn: ’I do not think your claim to the ownership of that property is against the law of the land;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (yet methinks the property is now come into strong keeping. The king’s treasury hath a wide entrance,)Tj T* (but a narrow exit. We have urged many arduous claims of money against powerful persons, but we)Tj T* (were in more confidence with the king than now; for the friendship between me and king Hacon is)Tj T* (shallow; yet must I act after the old saw: He must tend the oak who is to dwell beneath it.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Yet,’ said Egil, ’my mind is that, if we have law to show, we should try. Maybe the king will grant us)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (right in this, for I am told that the king is just, and keeps well to the laws which he has made here in)Tj T* (the land. I am rather minded to go seek the king and try the matter with him.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn said that he did not desire this. ’I think, Egil, that these things will be hard to reconcile, your)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (eagerness and daring, and the king’s temper and power. For I deem him to be no friend of yours, and)Tj T* (for good reason as he thinks. I would rather that we let this matter drop, and did not take it up. But if)Tj T* (you wish it, Egil, I will rather myself go to the king and moot the question.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said that he thanked him heartily, and would choose it to be so.)Tj T* (Hacon was then in Rogaland, but at times in Hordaland; there was no difficulty in finding him. And)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (not long after this talk Arinbjorn made ready for his journey. It was then publicly known that he)Tj T* (purposed to seek the king. He manned with his house-carles a twenty-oared galley that he had. Egil)Tj T* (was to stay at home; Arinbjorn would not have him go. Arinbjorn started when ready, and his journey)Tj T* (went well; he found king Hacon, and was well received.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when he had been there a little while, he declared his errand before the king, and said that Egil)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Skallagrimsson was come there in the land, and thought he had a claim to all that property that had)Tj T* (belonged to Ljot the Pale. ’We are told, O king, that Egil pleads but law in this; but your stewards have)Tj T* (taken up the property, and claimed ownership for you. I would pray you, my lord, that Egil may get)Tj T* (law herein.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 283 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 285 0 obj << /Length 4479 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The king was slow to speak, but at length answered: ’I know not, Arinbjorn, why thou comest with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (such pleading for Egil. He came once before me, and I told him that I would not have him sojourn here)Tj T* (in the land, for reasons which ye already know. Now Egil must not set up such claim before me ad he)Tj T* (did before my brother Eric. And to thee, Arinbjorn, I have this to say, that thou mayest be here in the)Tj T* (land only so long as thou preferrest not foreigners before me and my word; for I know that thy heart is)Tj T* (with Harold son of Eric, thy foster-son; and this is thy best choice, to go to those brothers and be with)Tj T* (them; for I strongly suspect that men like thee will be ill to trust to, if I and Eric’s sons ever have to try )Tj T* (conclusions.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when the king had so spoken, Arinbjorn saw that it would not do to plead this cause any further)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with him; so he prepared to return home. The king was rather sullen and gloomy towards Arinbjorn)Tj T* (after he knew his errand; but Arinbjorn was not in the mood to humble himself before the king about)Tj T* (this matter. And so they parted.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Arinbjorn went home and told Egil the issue of his errand. ’I will not,’ said he, ’again plead such a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (cause to the king.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil at this report frowned much; he thought he had lost much wealth, and wrongfully. A few days)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (after, early one morning when Arinbjorn was in his chamber and few men were present, he had Egil)Tj T* (called thither; and when he came, then Arinbjorn had a chest opened, and weighed out forty marks of)Tj T* (silver, adding these words: ’This money I pay you, Egil, for those lands which belonged to Ljot the)Tj T* (Pale. I deem it just that you should have this reward from me and my kinsman Fridgeir for saving his)Tj T* (life from Ljot; for I know that you did this for love of me. I therefore am bound not to let you be)Tj T* (cheated of your lawful right in this matter.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil took the money, and thanked Arinbjorn. Then Egil again became quite cheerful.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 388.6003 Tm (Chapter 72 - Of Arinbjorn’s harrying.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 364.4002 Tm (Arinbjorn stayed at home on his estate that winter, but in the next spring he let it be known that he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (meant to go a-freebooting. Arinbjorn had good choice of ships. He made ready in the spring three)Tj T* (war-ships, all large, and he had three hundred men. His house-carles he had on his own ship, which)Tj T* (was excellently equipt; he had also with him many landowners’ sons. Egil settled to go with him; he)Tj T* (steered a ship, and with him went many of the comrades whom he brought from Iceland. But the)Tj T* (merchant-ship which he brought from Iceland he caused to be moved eastwards to Vik, getting some)Tj T* (men there to dispose of the cargo.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But Arinbjorn and Egil with the war-ships held a southward course along the coast; then took their)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (force still southwards to Saxland, where they harried in the summer and got wealth. As autumn came)Tj T* (on they came back northward harrying, and lay off Friesland. One night when the weather was calm)Tj T* (they went up a large river-mouth, where was bad harbourage, and the ebb of the tide was great. There)Tj T* (up on land were wide flats with woods hard by. The fields were soaked because there had been much)Tj T* (rain. They resolved to go up there, and left behind a third of their force to guard the ships. They)Tj T* (followed up the river, keeping between it and the woods. Soon they came to a hamlet where dwelt)Tj T* (several peasants. The people ran out of the hamlet into the fields, such as could do so, when they)Tj T* (perceived the enemy, but the freebooters pursued them. Then they came to a second village, and a)Tj T* (third; all the people fled before them. The land was level, flat fields everywhere, intersected by dykes)Tj T* (full of water. By these the corn-lands or meadows were enclosed; in some places large stakes were set,)Tj T* (and over the dyke, where men should go, were bridges and planks laid. The country folk fled to the)Tj T* (forest. But when the freebooters had gone far into the settled parts, the Frisians gathered them in the)Tj T* (woods, and when they had assembled three hundred men, they went against the freebooters resolved to)Tj ET endstream endobj 286 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 289 0 obj << /Length 4804 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (give them battle. There was then some hard fighting; but the end was that the Frisians fled and the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (freebooters pursued the fugitives. The peasants that escaped were scattered far and wide, and so were)Tj T* (their pursuers. Thus it happened that on either side few kept together.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil was hotly pursuing, and a few with him, after a numerous company that fled. The Frisians came)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to a dyke, over which they went, and then drew away the bridge. Then came up Egil and his men on)Tj T* (the other bank. Egil at once went at the dyke and leapt it, but it was no leap for other men, and no one)Tj T* (tried it. But when the Frisians saw that but one man was following, they turned back and attacked him,)Tj T* (but he defended himself well, and used the dyke to cover him behind so that they could not attack him)Tj T* (on all sides. Eleven men set on him, but the end of their encounter was that he slew them all. After that)Tj T* (Egil pushed out the bridge over the dyke, and crossed it back again. He then saw that all his people had)Tj T* (turned back to the ships. He was then near the wood, and he now went along the wood towards the)Tj T* (ships so that he had the choice of the wood if he needed its shelter. The freebooters had brought down)Tj T* (to the shore much booty and cattle. And when they came to the ships, some slaughtered the cattle,)Tj T* (some carried out the plunder to the ships, some stood higher up and formed a shield-burgh; for the)Tj T* (Frisians were come down in great force and were shooting at them, being also in battle array. And)Tj T* (when Egil came down and saw how matters stood, he ran at full speed right at the throng. His halberd)Tj T* (he held before him grasped in both hands, and slung his shield behind his back. He thrust forward his)Tj T* (halberd, and all before him started aside, and so gat he a passage right through their ranks. Thus he)Tj T* (dashed down to his men, who looked on him as recovered from the dead.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then they went on ship-board, and loosed from land. They sailed then to Denmark. And when they)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (came to Lima-firth and lay at Hals, Arinbjorn held a meeting of his men, and laid before them his)Tj T* (plans. ’Now will I,’ said he, ’go seek Eric’s sons with such force as will follow me. I have now learnt)Tj T* (that the brothers are in Denmark here, and maintain a large following, and spend the summers in)Tj T* (harrying, but for the winters abide here in Denmark. I now give leave to all to go to Norway who)Tj T* (would rather do that than follow me. For you, Egil, methinks, the best counsel is that, as soon as we)Tj T* (part, you return to Norway, and then on with all speed to Iceland.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then the men separated to their several ships. Those who wished to go back to Norway joined Egil,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (but by far the larger part of the force followed Arinbjorn. Arinbjorn and Egil parted in love and)Tj T* (friendship. Arinbjorn went to seek Eric’s sons, and joined the company of Harold Gray-fell his)Tj T* (foster-son, and was with him henceforth so long as they both lived.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil went northwards to Vik, and into Osloar-firth. There was his merchant ship which he had caused)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to be moved thither in the spring. There were also his cargo and the men who had gone with the ship.)Tj T* (Thorstein Thora’s son came to seek Egil, and asked him and such men as he would bring to stay with)Tj T* (him that winter. Egil accepted the offer, had his ship set up and the cargo safely bestowed. Of his)Tj T* (followers some got quarters there, some went to their several homes in the north. Egil in a company of)Tj T* (ten or twelve went to Thorstein’s, and remained there for the winter an honoured guest.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 203.8001 Tm (Chapter 73 - Mission to Vermaland.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 179.6002 Tm (King Harold Fairhair had subdued Vermaland eastwards as far as Lake Wener. Vermaland had first)Tj T* (been cleared and tilled by Olaf Tree-cutter, father of Halfdan Whitebone, who first of his family was)Tj T* (king in Norway; and from him on the father’s side was king Harold descended, and all his forefathers)Tj T* (had ruled over Vermaland and taken tribute therefrom, and set men in charge over the land. But when)Tj T* (Harold was grown old, then was an earl named Arnvid governor of Vermaland. It happened there, as)Tj T* (elsewhere, that the tribute was worse paid now than when Harold was in the vigour of life. So also was)Tj T* (it when Harold’s sons strove for the rule in Norway, the outlying tributary lands were little looked)Tj T* (after. But when Hacon sat in peace, then enquired he after all the empire that his father Harold had)Tj ET endstream endobj 290 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 292 0 obj << /Length 4359 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (had. King Hacon had sent eastwards to Vermaland a company of twelve men. These had received the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (tribute from the earl. But as they were going back to Eida-wood, robbers set upon them and slew them)Tj T* (all. The same hap befell yet other messengers sent by king Hacon eastwards to Vermaland; the men)Tj T* (were slain, and no money was brought back. Then was it said by some that earl Arnvid belike set men)Tj T* (of his own to slay the king’s men, while he kept the tribute for himself. Whereupon king Hacon sent)Tj T* (yet a third company.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (He was then in Throndheim; the messengers were to go to Vik and seek Thorstein Thora’s son with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (these words, that he should go eastwards to Vermaland and gather in the tribute for the king, or else he)Tj T* (must leave the land. For the king had heard that Arinbjorn Thorstein’s mother’s brother was gone)Tj T* (southwards to Denmark and was with Eric’s sons, and further that they had a large following and spent)Tj T* (the summer in harrying. King Hacon mistrusted the loyalty of all this company, expecting as he did)Tj T* (hostilities from Eric’s sons if they had but strength to raise rebellion against him. And to Arinbjorn’s)Tj T* (kinsmen and friends he showed great dislike, putting some to death, driving some from the land, or)Tj T* (laying on them other hard conditions. And so it was that before Thorstein the king put this choice.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The man who bore this message was named Kol; he was a man of all lands; he had been long in)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Denmark and in Sweden, and knew all about ways and men there. In Norway too he had travelled)Tj T* (widely. And when he brought this proposal to Thorstein Thora’s son, then Thorstein told Egil upon)Tj T* (what errand these men came, and asked how he should answer them; he said that it seemed a hard)Tj T* (thing for him to lose his possessions and be driven out of the land.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said: ’It is to me quite clear what this message means; the king will have you out of the land like)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (others of Arinbjorn’s kin, for I call sending a man of your nobleness on such errand a sending to)Tj T* (certain death. My advice is that you call the king’s messengers to conference with you, and I will be)Tj T* (present at your talk, and we will see what come of it.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorstein did as he bade; he held conference with them. The messengers told all the truth of their)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (errand and of the king’s message, that Thorstein must go on this mission or else be outlawed.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said: ’I see clearly about your errand, that if Thorstein refuses to go, then you will have to go and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (gather the in the tribute.’ The messengers said that he guessed rightly. Said Egil: ’Thorstein shall not)Tj T* (go on this journey; for he is in nowise bound thereto, a man of his renown, to go on such mean)Tj T* (missions. Thorstein will do that whereto he is bound, to wit, attend the king within the land or without,)Tj T* (if the king demands it. Also, if ye want to have some men from hence for this journey, this will be)Tj T* (granted you, and all such furtherance of your journey as ye may name to Thorstein.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then the messengers talked among themselves, and agreed that they would accept these terms, if Egil)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (would go with them on the journey. ’The king,’ they said, ’bears him great ill-will, and he will think)Tj T* (our journey a right good one if we bring it about that Egil be slain. He can then drive Thorstein out of)Tj T* (the land if he pleases.’ So they told Thorstein that they would be content if Egil went and Thorstein)Tj T* (stayed at home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’So shall it be,’ said Egil. ’I will release Thorstein from this journey. But how many men think ye that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (ye need to take from hence?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’We are eight,’ said they; ’we would fain have four men go from hence; then are we twelve.’)Tj T* (Egil said it should be so. Aunund Sjoni and some of Egil’s company had gone out to sea, to look after)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (their ship and another cargo which they had given into safe keeping in the autumn, and they had not)Tj T* (yet returned. Egil thought this a great pity, but the king’s men were impatient to be gone, and would)Tj T* (not wait.)Tj ET endstream endobj 293 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 295 0 obj << /Length 4071 >> stream BT /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 736.6 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Chapter 74 - Journey to Vermaland.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 712.4 Tm (Egil with three comrades made him ready for the journey. They had horses and sledges, and so had the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (king’s men. There was then deep snow, and all the roads were effaced. They betook them to their)Tj T* (journey when they were ready, and sledged up the land; and when they came eastwards near Eida, it)Tj T* (happened one night that so much fresh snow fell that they could not see the way. On the morrow they)Tj T* (traveled slowly, because there were snowdrifts directly one left the track. And as the day wore on they)Tj T* (stopped to bait their horses; this was near a wooded ridge. Then spoke the king’s men with Egil: ’Here)Tj T* (now the roads divide; forward below the ridge dwells a landowner named Arnold, our friend; we with)Tj T* (our party will go and lodge there. But you shall go yonder up the ridge, and when you come over it)Tj T* (you will soon have before you a large house where you are sure of lodging. A wealthy man dwells)Tj T* (there, Armod Beard by name. But to-morrow early we will again join company and go on the next)Tj T* (evening to Eida-wood. There dwells a worthy landowner named Thorfinn.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Upon this they separated, Egil and his men going up the ridge. But of the king’s men this is to be told,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that no sooner were they and Egil out of sight of each other, than they took their snow-shoes \(which)Tj T* (they had brought with them\) and put them on; then they retraced their way as fast as they could. Night)Tj T* (and day they travelled, and turned toward Upland, thence north by the Dovre-fell, nor stayed they till)Tj T* (they came before king Hacon, and told him of their journey, how it had sped. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil and his comrades crossed the ridge that evening. To be brief, so soon as they left the main road)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and got upon the ridge, they found deep snow, steep rocks, tangled copsewood. Now and again in the)Tj T* (snow the horses so plunged and lay that they had to be pulled up out of it, and over rocks and crags)Tj T* (was a hard struggle. Much ado had they with the horses; but the walking for the men was of the)Tj T* (heaviest, and sorely wearied were they when they came off the ridge and saw before them a large)Tj T* (house, for which they made. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when they came to the enclosure, they saw men standing outside, Armod and some of his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (household. They exchanged words and asked each other’s tidings, and when Armod knew that they)Tj T* (were messengers of the king, he offered them lodging. This they accepted. Armod’s house-carles took)Tj T* (their horses and harness; but the master bade Egil go into the hall, and they did so.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Armod made Egil sit in the high seat on the lower bench, and his comrades outside him. They spoke)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (much of what a toilsome way they had come that evening, but the house-carles thought it a great)Tj T* (marvel that they had won through it at all; it was, they said, no road for man even were it free of snow.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then said Armod: ’Think ye not this were the best hospitality, that a table should be set for you and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (supper given you now, and then you should sleep? This will best rest you.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’We should like this right well,’ said Egil. )Tj T* (So Armod had a table set for them, whereon were placed large bowls full of curds. Then said Armod)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that he was sorry he had no beer to give them. Egil and his men were very thirsty from weariness; they)Tj T* (took up the bowls and drank the curds eagerly, Egil drinking far the most. No other food was brought.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The household was numerous. The mistress sat on the cross-bench, and beside her the other women.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The master’s daughter, ten or eleven years old, was running about the hall-floor. The mistress called)Tj T* (her to her side, and spoke in her ear. Then the girl went out to where Egil sat, and recited a verse:)Tj ET endstream endobj 296 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 298 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 (’To thee with this message)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (My mother doth send me,)Tj T* (To bear word that Egil)Tj T* (Be wary and wait.)Tj T* ("So temper thy stomach,")Tj T* (Thus sayeth our lady,)Tj T* ("With fare far more worthy)Tj T* (Soon feed we our guests."’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Armod struck the girl, and bade her hold her tongue: ’You are always,’ said he, ’saying what least )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (suits.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The girl went away; but Egil threw down the curd-bowl, which was now nearly empty. The bowls)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (were then removed from them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And now the household took their seats, and tables were set all round the hall, and food served; dishes)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (of meat were brought in and set before Egil and the rest. After this ale was borne in, beer of the)Tj T* (strongest. Soon they began to drink bumpers, each man was to drink off the horn; and especial care)Tj T* (was taken that Egil and his companions should drink hard. Egil drank without shirking a drop for a)Tj T* (long while, but when his companions were become helpless, then he drank for them what they could)Tj T* (not. So matters went on till the tables were removed, and by then all in the room were well drunk.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But before each cup that he drank Armod said: ’I drink to you, Egil,’ and the house-carles drank to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Egil’s companions with the same preface. A man was appointed to bear every cup to Egil’s party, and)Tj T* (he urged them to drink it off quick. Egil told his companions to drink no more, but himself drank for)Tj T* (them what they could not avoid.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil soon found that it would not do for him to go on so. Wherefore he stood up, went across the floor)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to where Armod sat, took him with his hands by the shoulders, and forced him back against the inner)Tj T* (posts, and spat in his face. There was an outcry and uproar, but Egil went back to his place, sate him)Tj T* (down, and bade them serve him drink.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Armod leapt up and ran out; Egil continued to drink for a while, as did some others in the hall; but)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (there was little merriment. Soon Egil and his men stood up, and took their weapons from the wall)Tj T* (where they had hung them up; they then went to the granary in which their horse were, and laid)Tj T* (themselves down in the straw, and slept through the night.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 261.0003 Tm (Chapter 75 - Parting of Egil and Armod.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 236.8003 Tm (Egil rose up in the morning as soon as it was day. He and his made them ready, and when ready went)Tj T* (at once to the house to seek Armod. And when they came to the apartments where slept Armod and his)Tj T* (wife and daughter, then Egil burst open the door and approached Armod’s bed. He then drew his)Tj T* (sword, but with the other hand grasped the beard of Armod, and forced him forward to the edge of the)Tj T* (bed. But Armod’s wife and daughter leapt up and prayed Egil not to slay Armod. Egil said he would)Tj T* (spare him for their sakes; ’For,’ said he, ’this is but meet; yet has he deserved to die.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this Egil cut off his beard close to his chin, and put out one of his eyes. Then he went out to his )Tj 0 -1.2 TD (companions.)Tj ET endstream endobj 299 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 301 0 obj << /Length 3364 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (They went on their way and came a day-meal-time to the house of Thorfinn. He dwelt by Eida-wood.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Of him they craved a day-meal and to bait their horses. Thorfinn granted this, and Egil with his men)Tj T* (went into the hall. Egil asked if Thorfinn had seen anything of the rest of his party.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’We appointed,’ he said, ’to meet here.’)Tj T* (Thorfinn said: ’Here passed six men together a little before day; and they were well armed.’)Tj T* (Then said a house-carle: ’I was driving a sledge in the night to fetch wood, and I came upon six men)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (on the road; they were house-carles of Armod; but that was long before day. Now I am not sure)Tj T* (whether these will be the same as the six of whom you spoke.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorfinn said that the six men whom he had met had passed after the house-carle came back with the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (load of wood.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (While they sat at meat Egil saw that a woman lay sick on the daïs at the ends of the hall. He asked who)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was that woman in such sad case. Thorfinn said she was named Helga, and was his daughter; she had)Tj T* (long been ill; her complaint was a pining sickness; she got no sleep at night, and was as one possessed.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Has anything,’ asked Egil, ’been tried for her ailment?’)Tj T* (’Runes have been graven,’ said Thorfinn; ’a landowner’s son hard by did this; and she is since much)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (worse than before. But can you, Egil, do anything for such ailments?’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil said: ’Maybe no harm will be done by my taking it in hand.’)Tj T* (And when Egil had finished his meal, he went where the woman lay and spoke with her. Then he bade)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (them lift her from her place and lay clean clothes under her, and they did so. Next he searched the bed)Tj T* (in which she had lain, and there he found a piece of whalebone whereon were runes. Egil read them,)Tj T* (then cut the runes and scraped them off into the fire. He burned the whole piece of whalebone, and had)Tj T* (the bed-clothes that she had used hung out to air. Then Egil sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Runes none should grave ever)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Who knows not to read them;)Tj T* (Of dark spell full many)Tj T* (The meaning may miss.)Tj T* (Ten spell-words writ wrongly)Tj T* (On whale-bone were graven:)Tj T* (Whence to leek-tending maiden,)Tj T* (Long sorrow and pain.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil then graved runes, and laid them under the bolster of the bed where the woman lay. She seemed)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (as if she waked out of sleep, and said she now felt well, but she was weak. But her father and mother)Tj T* (were overjoyed. And Thorfinn offered to Egil all the furtherance that he might think needful.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 166.4002 Tm (Chapter 76 - Egil comes to landowner Alf.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 142.2003 Tm (Egil said to his comrades that he would go on his way and abide no longer. Thorfinn had a son named)Tj T* (Helgi, a valiant man. Father and son offered Egil their company through the wood. They said they)Tj T* (knew for a fact that Armod Beard had put six men into the wood to lie in wait for them, and it was)Tj T* (likely that there would be more ambushed in the wood in case the first should fail. There were with)Tj T* (Thorfinn four that offered to go. Then Egil sang a stave:)Tj ET endstream endobj 302 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 304 0 obj << /Length 4034 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (’If four with me follow,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thou findest not six men)Tj T* (With us bloody sword-blows)Tj T* (To barter in fight.)Tj T* (And if he with eight go,)Tj T* (Undaunted in courage)Tj T* (On twelve black-browed Egil)Tj T* (The battle will dare.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorfinn and his men decided to go into the wood with Egil: thus they were eight in all. And when)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they came where the ambush was set, they saw men there. But these house-carles of Armod who were)Tj T* (in ambush, on seeing that the travellers were eight in number, thought they were overmatched, and hid)Tj T* (them away in the wood. And when Egil’s party came where the liers-in-wait had been, they saw that)Tj T* (all was not peaceful. And now Egil said that Thorfinn and his men should go back, but they offered to)Tj T* (go further. However Egil would not have it, and bade them go home; so they did so and turned back.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But Egil and his men went on forward, being now four. And as the day wore on they perceived that)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (there were six men in the wood, and they were pretty sure that these also were house-carles of Armod.)Tj T* (Up leapt the liers-in-wait and made at them, and they met their charge: and the encounter ended in)Tj T* (Egil’s slaying two and the rest running back into the wood.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil’s company went on their way, and nothing more happened till they got out of the wood and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (found lodging near the wood with a landowner named Alf, who was called Alf the wealthy. He was an)Tj T* (old man, wealthy in money, of a strange temper, so that he could keep but few in his household. A)Tj T* (good reception Egil found there, and with him Alf was talkative. Egil asked many questions, and Alf)Tj T* (told him what he asked. They spoke much about the earl and the king of Norway’s messengers, who)Tj T* (had before gone eastward to gather the tribute. Alf in his talk was no friend to the earl.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 373.2 Tm (Chapter 77 - Egil gathers tribute.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 349.0001 Tm (Egil made him ready early next morning to continue his journey, as did his comrades, but at parting)Tj T* (Egil gave Alf a fur cloak. Alf took the gift with thanks, saying, ’A good mantle have I here.’ And he)Tj T* (bade Egil visit him on the way back. They parted friends; and Egil going on his way came on the)Tj T* (evening of a day to earl Arnvid’s court, where he found a good reception. He and his comrades were)Tj T* (placed next to the sitter in the seat opposite the earl.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (When Egil had been there for a night, he declared his errand with the earl, and the message of the king)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (from Norway, and said that he wished to have all that tribute from Vermaland that had been owing)Tj T* (since Arnvid had been set over the land. The earl said that he had paid out of hand all the tribute, and)Tj T* (delivered it into the hands of the king’s messengers. ’But I know not,’ he said, ’what they have since)Tj T* (done with it, whether they brought it to the king or ran away with it out of the land. However, as ye)Tj T* (bear sure tokens that the king has sent you, I will pay all the tribute to which he has a right, and deliver)Tj T* (it into your hands: but I will not be answerable afterwards for how you fare with it.’ Egil and his men)Tj T* (remained there for awhile. But before Egil went away the earl paid them the tribute. Part was in silver,)Tj T* (part in gray fur.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when Egil’s party were ready they started to return. At their parting Egil said to the earl: ’Now we)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (will bear to the king this tribute which we have received. But know, earl, that this is much less money)Tj T* (than the king deems to be his due here; and that too without counting that, as he thinks, thou oughtest)Tj T* (to pay atonement for the messengers whom common rumour says thou didst cause to be slain.’ The)Tj T* (earl said that that was not true. With this they parted.)Tj ET endstream endobj 305 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 307 0 obj << /Length 4733 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now when Egil was gone, the earl called to him his two brothers, each of whom was named Ulf, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (spoke thus: ’That big fellow Egil, who was here for awhile, will, I expect, do us an ill turn when he)Tj T* (comes to the king. We may by this mark how he will bear our matter before the king, that he threw in)Tj T* (our face such a charge, the taking the life of the king’s men. Now must ye two go after their party and)Tj T* (slay them all, and let none bear this slander before the king. Methinks the wisest plan were to lie in)Tj T* (wait for them in Eida-wood. Take with you so many men as to make sure that not one of them escape,)Tj T* (while ye get no less of men from them.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then did the brothers make them ready for their journey, and they took thirty men. They went to the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (wood, of which they knew every path: then they watched for Egil’s coming. There were two roads)Tj T* (through the wood. One led over a certain ridge, and there was a steep cliff, and only a path for one;)Tj T* (this was the shorter road. The other led round the edge of the ridge, over wide bogs, across which)Tj T* (hewn wood was laid, there too making a causeway for but one to pass. And they lay in wait fifteen in)Tj T* (either place.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 540.4 Tm (Chapter 78 - Egil and his band slay twenty-five men.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 516.2 Tm (Egil went till he came to Alf’s, and was there for the night in good quarters. Next morning he rose)Tj T* (before day and made ready for his journey. And while they sat over their morning meal, Alf the master)Tj T* (came in. He said: ’You are making a start betimes, Egil; but my counsel would be that you hurry not)Tj T* (your journey, but rather look before you, for I think there be liers-in-wait for you in the wood. I have)Tj T* (no men to give you as escort who would be any strength to you: but this I offer, that ye tarry here with)Tj T* (me till I can report to you that the wood is safe.’ Egil said: ’That will be mere nonsense. I will go on)Tj T* (my way as I before meant to do.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (So he and his men made ready to go, while Alf tried to stop them, and bade them come back, if they)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (saw that the way was trodden: ’None,’ he said, ’have passed the wood from the east since you, Egil,)Tj T* (went eastward, except these, who, as I suspect, have gone wishing to encounter you.’ Egil said, ’How)Tj T* (many will they be, think you, if it is as you say? We have not lost the game, though there be some)Tj T* (odds against us.’ Alf said: ’I with my house-carles had gone to the wood, and we came on men’s)Tj T* (footprints; the trail led into the wood, and there must have been many in all. But if you do not believe)Tj T* (this that I say, go and see for yourself the trail, and then turn back, if it seems as I tell you.’ Egil went)Tj T* (his way, and when they came where the road entered the wood, they saw there the tracks both of men)Tj T* (and horses. Egil’s comrades then advised that they should turn back. ’We will go on,’ said Egil:)Tj T* (’methinks ’tis no wonder that men have gone through Eida-wood, for it is a public road.’ So they went)Tj T* (on, and the footmarks continued, being of a numerous company. And when they came there where the)Tj T* (roads forked, then the trail also forked, and was equally strong either way. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then said Egil: ’Now I think that maybe Alf has told the truth. We will now make us ready as)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (expecting an encounter.’ So then Egil and his men doffed their cloaks and all their loose clothing, and)Tj T* (laid these on the sledge. Egil had brought in his sledge a very long cord of bast, for it is the wont of)Tj T* (those who take long sledging journeys to have with them some spare cord in case the harness need)Tj T* (mending. Egil took a large flat stone, and laid it before his breast and stomach. Then he bent thereon)Tj T* (the cord, and wound it round and round him, and so encased him right up to the shoulders.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Eida-wood is of this kind: there is reaching to the cultivated land on either side dense forest, but in the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (middle is a wide space of shrubs and thin copse, with some parts quite bare of wood. Egil and his)Tj T* (company turned by the shorter way, which lay over the ridge. They all had shields and helms, and)Tj T* (weapons both to cut and thrust. Egil walked first. And when they came to the ridge, there was wood at)Tj T* (the foot of it, but above on the rock it was bare. But when they came up to the rock, then seven men)Tj T* (leapt out of the wood and up to the cliff after them, and shot at them. Egil and his men turned and)Tj ET endstream endobj 308 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 310 0 obj << /Length 4510 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (stood abreast across the path. Then came other men against them from above on the crag’s brow, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (cast stones at them, and this was by far the greater danger. Then said Egil, ’Now must you step back)Tj T* (and close to the cliff, and cover yourselves as best ye may; but I will try to win the summit.’ They did)Tj T* (so. And when Egil got past the rock out on the top, there were in front eight men, who all at once set)Tj T* (upon him. Of their exchange of blows nought is there to tell: the end was that Egil slew them all. Then)Tj T* (he went forward to the verge of the summit and hurled over stones, that none could withstand; and)Tj T* (thereafter three of the Vermians fell, but four gat them into the wood sore wounded and bruised.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil and his men took their horses and went on their way till they came over the ridge. But the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Vermians who had escaped brought news of this to their fellows, who were by the bog. They then)Tj T* (advanced by the lower road and so beset the way in front of Egil. Ulf said to his comrades: ’We must)Tj T* (now go cunningly to work with them, and so manage that none get away. This,’ said he, ’is the nature)Tj T* (of the ground: the road skirts the ridge, close to the foot of which runs the bog, while a rocky brow is)Tj T* (above, and the passage lies between these and is no broader than a footpath. Now some of us shall go)Tj T* (forward round the brow to withstand them if they advance; but some shall hide here in the wood, and)Tj T* (leap out at their back when they have got on before us. And take we such heed that none escape.’ They)Tj T* (did as Ulf bade: Ulf went forward round the brow and ten men with him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil and his men went on their way knowing nought of this plan till they came into the narrow path.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Then out leapt men behind them, and drove at them with weapons. They faced about and defended)Tj T* (themselves. Now also dashed at them those who were in front of the rocky brow; and when Egil saw)Tj T* (that, he turned to meet them. Quick were the blows exchanged between them; and Egil smote down)Tj T* (some in the narrow pass, but some turned back to where there was more level space. Egil dashed after)Tj T* (them. There fell Ulf. And in the end Egil slew there single-handed eleven men. Then he went where)Tj T* (his comrades were keeping the pass before eight men: there were some wounded on either side. But)Tj T* (when Egil came, then at once the Vermians fled to the wood hard by. Five escaped, all sore wounded,)Tj T* (but three fell there. Egil had many wounds, but none serious.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (They then continued their journey. He bound his comrades’ wounds, none of which were mortal. They)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sat in the sledge, and drove for the rest of the day. )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But the Vermians who escaped took their horses, and dragged themselves from the wood eastwards to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (inhabited parts. There they got their wounds bound. Procuring companions, they made their way to the)Tj T* (earl, and told him of their misadventure. They told how both the Ulfs had fallen, twenty-five men were)Tj T* (dead, and but five escaped with life, and they all wounded and bruised. The earl then asked what were)Tj T* (the tidings of Egil and his comrades. They answered: ’We know not for sure how much they were)Tj T* (wounded; but full boldly did they set on us when we were eight and they four; then we fled. Five)Tj T* (reached the wood, but three perished; yet, for all we could see, Egil and his men were as fresh as ever.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The earl said that their journey had been as bad as could be. ’I could have been content we should have)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (great loss of life, had ye but slain these Northmen; but now when they come west from the wood and)Tj T* (tell these tidings to Norway’s king, then may we expect from him the very hardest terms.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 179.6002 Tm (Chapter 79 - Egil comes to Thorfinn’s. The harrying of king )Tj T* (Hacon.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 135.0002 Tm (Egil traveled on till he came westward out of the wood. They made for Thorfinn’s that evening, where)Tj T* (they were well received: their wounds were bound up, and they stayed there several nights. Helga, the)Tj T* (master’s daughter, was now on her feet, and whole of her ailment. For this she and all the family)Tj T* (thanked Egil. He and his rested there themselves and their beasts.)Tj ET endstream endobj 311 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 313 0 obj << /Length 4571 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (The man who had graved the runes for Helga dwelt not far off. It now came out that he had asked her)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (to wife, but Thorfinn would not give her. Then this landowner’s son would fain beguile her, but she)Tj T* (would not consent. So he thought to grave for her love-runes, but he did not understand them aright,)Tj T* (and graved that wherefrom she took her sickness.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when Egil was ready to depart, Thorfinn and his son escorted them on the road: they being thus)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (ten or twelve in company. 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He set over)Tj T* (the land another earl, taking hostages of him and of the landowners. In this expedition Hacon went far)Tj T* (and wide about western Gautland and subdued it, as is told in his Saga, and is found in the poems)Tj T* (composed about him. It is also told that he went to Denmark, and harried there far and wide. Then was)Tj T* (it that with two ships he disabled twelve ships of the Danes, and gave to Tryggva, son of his brother)Tj T* (Olaf, the name of king and the rule over Vik eastwards.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil in the summer made ready his merchant-ship and got thereto a crew. But the long-ship that he had)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brought from Denmark in the autumn he gave to Thorstein at parting. Thorstein gave Egil good gifts,)Tj T* (and they pledged them to close friendship. Egil sent messengers to Thord, his wife’s kinsman, at)Tj T* (Aurland, and gave him charge to arrange for those lands that Egil owned in Sogn and Hordaland,)Tj T* (bidding him sell them if there were a buyer. 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All the)Tj T* (original land-takers were dead, but their sons or sons’ sons were living, and dwelt there in the district.)Tj T* (There was a man named Grim, son of Sverting; he dwelt at Moss-fell below the heath; rich was he and)Tj T* (of good family; his sister was Rannveig whom Thorod, the priest in Olvos, had to wife; their son was)Tj T* (Skapti the lawman. Grim was also afterwards lawman. He asked to wife Thordis daughter of Thorolf)Tj T* (Egil’s brother, and stepdaughter of Egil. Egil loved Thordis no whit less than his own children. She)Tj ET endstream endobj 314 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 316 0 obj << /Length 4676 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (was a very beautiful woman. And since Egil knew that Grim was a wealthy man and the match was a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (good one, it was so settled, and Thordis was given to Grim. 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And when they had to go out again,)Tj T* (high-water was late in the day, and, as they must needs wait for the turn of tide, they did not start till)Tj T* (late in the evening. Then came on a violent south-west gale, against which ran the stream of the ebb.)Tj T* (This made a rough sea in the firth, as can often happen. The end was that the boat sank under them,)Tj T* (and all were lost. The next day the bodies were cast up: Bodvar’s body came on shore at Einars-ness,)Tj T* (but some came in on the south shore of the firth, whither also the boat was driven, being found far in)Tj T* (near Reykjarhamar.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil heard these tidings that same day, and at once rode to seek the bodies: he found Bodvar’s, took it)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (up and set it on his knees, and rode with it out to Digra-ness, to Skallagrim’s mound. Then he had the)Tj T* (mound opened, and laid Bodvar down there by Skallagrim. After which the mound was closed again;)Tj T* (this task was not finished till about nightfall. Egil then rode home to Borg, and, when he came home,)Tj T* (he went at once to the locked bed-closet in which he was wont to sleep. He lay down, and shut himself)Tj T* (in, none daring to crave speech of him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (It is said that when they laid Bodvar in earth Egil was thus dressed: his hose were tight-fitting to his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (legs, he wore a red kirtle of fustian, closely-fitting, and laced at the sides: but they say that his muscles)Tj T* (so swelled with his exertion that the kirtle was rent off him, as were also the hose.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (On the next day Egil still did not open the bed-closet: he had no meat or drink: there he lay for that day)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and the following night, no man daring to speak with him. 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brother,)Tj T* (The god once honoured,)Tj T* (I give no more.)Tj T* (Yet the friend of Mimir)Tj T* (On me hath bestowed)Tj T* (Some boot for bale,)Tj T* (If all boons I tell.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (23.)Tj T* (’Yea he, the wolf-tamer,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (The war-god skilful,)Tj T* (Gave poesy faultless)Tj T* (To fill my soul:)Tj T* (Gave wit to know well)Tj T* (Each wily trickster,)Tj T* (And force him to face me)Tj T* (As foeman in fight.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (24.)Tj T* (’Hard am I beset;)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Whom Hela, the sister)Tj T* (Of Odin’s fell captive,)Tj T* (On Digra-ness waits.)Tj T* (Yet shall I gladly)Tj T* (With right good welcome)Tj T* (Dauntless in bearing)Tj T* (Her death-blow bide.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil began to cheer up as the composing of the poem went on; and when the poem was complete, he)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (brought it before Asgerdr and Thorgerdr and his family. 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(Of Arinbjorn,)Tj T* (When guested and rested)Tj T* (In generous wise,)Tj T* (None with hard jest,)Tj T* (None with rude jeer,)Tj T* (None with his axe-hand)Tj T* (Ungifted hie.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (23.)Tj T* (’Hater of money)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Is he of the Firths,)Tj T* (A foe to the gold-drops)Tj T* (Of Draupnir born.)Tj T* (. . . . .)Tj ET endstream endobj 354 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 356 0 obj << /Length 2211 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (24.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Rings he scatters,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Riches he squanders,)Tj T* (Of avarice thievish)Tj T* (An enemy still.)Tj T* (. . . . .)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (25.)Tj T* (’Long course of life)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (His lot hath been,)Tj T* (By battles broken,)Tj T* (Bereft of peace.)Tj T* (. . . . .)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (26.)Tj T* (’Early waked I,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Word I gathered,)Tj T* (Toiled each morning)Tj T* (With speech-moulding tongue.)Tj T* (A proud pile built I)Tj T* (Of praise long-lasting)Tj T* (To stand unbroken)Tj T* (In Bragi’s town.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 390.8001 Tm (Chapter 83 - Of Einar Helgi’s son and Egil.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 366.6002 Tm (There was a man named Einar. He was the son of Helgi, the son of Ottar, the song of Bjorn Easterling,)Tj T* (who took land in Broad-firth. Einar was brother of Osvif the seer. Einar at an early age was tall and)Tj T* (strong, and most doughty. He began to compose poetry when quite young, and was eager for learning.)Tj T* (One summer at the Thing Einar went to the booth of Egil Skallagrimsson, and they began to talk, and)Tj T* (soon their talk took this turn that they spoke of poetry. In this converse both of them found pleasure.)Tj T* (After this Einar often went to talk with Egil, and a great friendship was struck up between them.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Einar had not long returned to Iceland from foreign travel. Egil asked Einar much of tidings from the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (east, and about his friends, and withal about those that he deemed his enemies. He asked also much)Tj T* (about men of rank. Einar in turn asked Egil about the events that had happened in his travels, and)Tj T* (about his exploits. This talk pleased Egil, and was kept up briskly. Einar asked Egil on what occasion)Tj T* (his prowess had been most hardly tried; this he begged him to say. Egil then sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’One with eight I battled,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Eleven faced I twice,)Tj T* (Made for wolf a meal,)Tj T* (Myself the bane of all.)Tj T* (Shields shook by sword-strokes)Tj T* (Smitten fast and furious;)Tj T* (Angry fire forth-flashing)Tj T* (Flew my ashen spear.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 357 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 359 0 obj << /Length 2893 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Egil and Einar pledged them to friendship on parting. Einar was long abroad from Iceland with men of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (rank. Einar was open-handed, and often short of money, but noble-hearted and manly. He was in the)Tj T* (body-guard of earl Hacon Sigurd’s son. At that time there was in Norway much war, the battles)Tj T* (between earl Hacon and Eric’s sons; and now one, now the other, was driven from the land. King)Tj T* (Harold, Eric’s son, fell south in Denmark, at Hals in Lima-firth; this was by treachery. He was then)Tj T* (fighting with Harold Knut’s son, who was called Gold-Harold, and earl Hacon was there. There fell)Tj T* (also with king Harold lord Arinbjorn, of whom much has already been told. And when Egil heard of)Tj T* (the fall of Arinbjorn, then he sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Mead-givers, glorious men,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Gold-spending warrior wights)Tj T* (Are spent and gone. Where seek)Tj T* (Such lavish donors now?)Tj T* (Erewhile, beyond the sea,)Tj T* (Earth’s islet-studded belt,)Tj T* (Such on my high hawk-perch)Tj T* (Hailed down the silver shower.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Einar Helgi’s son the poet was nicknamed Skala-glam. He composed a poem about earl Hacon, which)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (is called ’Dearth of Gold’; and for a long time the earl would not hear the poem because he was wroth)Tj T* (with Einar. Then Einar sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Song made I on a chief)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Supreme o’er land enthroned;)Tj T* (While others slept, I wrought,)Tj T* (Whereof I much repent.)Tj T* (Hither the earl to seek)Tj T* (Eager I came, nor thought)Tj T* (From brave free-handed prince)Tj T* (Far-comers worse would fare.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And further he sang:)Tj T* (’Seek we that earl whose sword)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Spreads banquet for the wolf:)Tj T* (To Sigvald’s ship well-oared,)Tj T* (Shield-fenced, my sword I lend.)Tj T* (Wielder of wound-snake, he)Tj T* (Will not my succour scorn:)Tj T* (I to his sea-borne barque)Tj T* (My buckler now will bear.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (The earl did not wish Einar to go away; so he granted a hearing to the poem, and thereafter gave Einar)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (a shield, which was a most costly work. It was inscribed with old tales; and between the writing were)Tj T* (overlaid spangles of gold with precious stones set therein. Einar went to Iceland and lodged with his)Tj T* (brother Osvif: but in autumn he rode east and came to Borg, and was guest there. Egil was just then)Tj T* (not at home, having gone to the northern part of the district, but was expected home. Einar waited for)Tj T* (him three nights: longer than three nights it was not the custom to stay on a friendly visit. Then Einar)Tj T* (made him ready to go; but when ready he went to Egil’s place in the hall, and there he hung up that)Tj T* (precious shield, and told the house-carles that he left it a gift for Egil. Then he rode away.)Tj ET endstream endobj 360 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 362 0 obj << /Length 3149 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (But on that same day Egil came home. 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But about the shield’s fortune at last this is)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (told, that Egil took it with him to the wedding when he went north to Broadmoor with Thorkettle)Tj T* (Gunnvald’s son and Red-Bjorn’s sons Trefill and Helgi. There the shield was spoilt by falling into a)Tj T* (tub of sour whey. After this Egil had the outer ornaments taken off: and there were twelve ounces of)Tj T* (gold in the spangles.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 450.2 Tm (Chapter 84 - Of Thorstein Egil’s son.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 426.0001 Tm (Thorstein Egil’s son when he grew up was a most handsome man, white-haired, bright-faced. Tall he)Tj T* (was and strong, yet not so much so as his father. Thorstein was wise, gentle, quite of temper, calm)Tj T* (above other men. Egil loved him little; nor was Thorstein affectionate with his father; but Asgerdr and)Tj T* (Thorstein loved each other dearly. Egil was now beginning to age much.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (One summer Thorstein rode to the Thing, but Egil sat at home. Before Thorstein left home he and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Asgerdr managed to take from Egil’s chest without his knowledge the silken robe given him by)Tj T* (Arinbjorn, and Thorstein took it to the Thing. But when he wore it at the Thing it trailed behind him,)Tj T* (and became soiled at the hem as they were going to the hill of laws. And when he came home, Asgerdr)Tj T* (put the robe in the chest where it was before. Long after, when Egil opened his chest, he found that the)Tj T* (robe was spoilt, and questioned Asgerdr how that had come about. She told him the truth. Then Egil )Tj T* (sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Him who from me inherits)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (I hold no worthy heir.)Tj T* (A son deceives me living,)Tj T* (Deceit I call his deed.)Tj T* (Well might he, wave-horse-rider,)Tj T* (Wait but awhile, till me)Tj T* (Sea-skimming shipmen cover)Tj T* (With shroud of piled stones.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorstein married Jofridr, daughter of Gunnar son of Hlif: her mother was Helga daughter of Olaf)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Feilan, sister of Thord Gellir. Jofridr had before been wife of Thorod the son of Tongue-Odd.)Tj ET endstream endobj 363 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 365 0 obj << /Length 3790 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Soon after this Asgerdr died. After her death Egil gave up his housekeeping to Thorstein, and went)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (south to Moss-fell to Grim, his son-in-law, for he loved Thordis his step-daughter most of all who)Tj T* (were then living. One summer a ship came out and put into Loam Bay, steered by a man named)Tj T* (Thormod. He was a Norwegian, a house-carle of Thorstein Thora’s son. He was to take with him a)Tj T* (shield, which Thorstein had sent to Egil Skallagrimsson: it was a valuable treasure. Thormod brought)Tj T* (Egil the shield, and he received it with thanks. In the following winter Egil composed a poem about)Tj T* (the gift of the shield: it is called Buckler-poem, and this is the beginning:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’List to the stream of lay)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (From long-haired Odin flowing,)Tj T* (Thane of a king, and bid)Tj T* (Thy folk due silence keep.)Tj T* (For thee, sea-raven’s ruler,)Tj T* (Rained from the eagle’s beak)Tj T* (Full oft shall shower of song)Tj T* (In Horda’s shore be heard.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorstein Egil’s son dwelt at Borg. He had two illegitimate sons, Hrifla and Hrafn. But after his)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (marriage he and Jofridr had ten children. 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Hafs-brook by old custom marked the boundary; but in spring Steinar’s cattle encroached)Tj T* (much on Stack-moor, when driven out to Hafs-brook, and Thorstein’s house-carles complained of it.)Tj T* (Steinar took no notice of this; and so matters went on for the first summer without anything happening.)Tj T* (But in the second spring Steinar continued to take the pasturage; wherefore Thorstein spoke with him)Tj T* (about it, but quietly, asking him to control the grazing of his kine, as had been the old usage. Steinar)Tj T* (said the cattle should go where they would. He spoke on the whole matter with obstinacy, and he and)Tj T* (Thorstein had words about it. Thorstein then had the cattle turned back to the moor beyond)Tj T* (Hafs-brook. This when Steinar knew, he charged Grani his thrall to sit by the cattle on Stack-moor,)Tj T* (and he sat there every day. This was in the latter part of the summer: all the pasture south of)Tj T* (Hafs-brook had been grazed by then.)Tj ET endstream endobj 366 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 368 0 obj << /Length 4860 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Now it happened one day that Thorstein had mounted a knoll to look round. He saw where Steinar’s)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (cattle were moving. Out he went on to the moor: it was late in the day. He saw that the cattle had now)Tj T* (come far out on the fenny hollow. Thorstein ran out on the moor. And when Grani saw that, he drove)Tj T* (the cattle away apace till they came to the milking-shed. Thorstein followed, and he and Grani met in)Tj T* (the gate. Thorstein slew him there: and it has been called since Grani’s gate: it is in the wall of the)Tj T* (enclosure. Thorstein pulled down the wall over Grani, and so covered his body. Then he went home to)Tj T* (Borg, but the women who came to the milking-shed found Grani where he lay. After that they carried)Tj T* (him home to the house, and told Steinar these tidings. Steinar buried him up on the hillside, and soon)Tj T* (got another thrall to go with the cattle, whose name is not told. Thorstein made as though he knew)Tj T* (nothing about the pasture for the remainder of the summer.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (It now happened that Steinar in the early part of the winter went out to Snæfell-strand and stayed there)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (awhile. There he saw a thrall named Thrand, who was tall and strong above other men. Steinar,)Tj T* (wishing to buy him, bid a large sum: but his owner valued him at three marks of silver, which was)Tj T* (twice the price of a common thrall, and at this sum the bargain was made. Steinar took Thrand home)Tj T* (with him, and when they came home, then spoke Steinar with Thrand: ’Now stand matters so that I)Tj T* (will have work of you. But as all the work is already arranged, I will put on you a task of but little)Tj T* (trouble: you shall sit by my cattle. I make a great point of their being well kept at pasture. I would)Tj T* (have you go by no man’s rule but your own, take them wherever the pasture on the moor is best. I am)Tj T* (no judge of a man’s look if you have not courage and strength enough to hold your own against any)Tj T* (house-carle of Thorstein’s.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Steinar delivered into Thrand’s hand a large axe. whose blade was an ell long, it was keen as a razor.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’This I think of you, Thrand,’ said Steinar, ’that you would not regard the priesthood of Thorstein if ye)Tj T* (two were face to face.’ Thrand answered: ’No duty do I, as I deem, owe to Thorstein; and methinks I)Tj T* (understand what work you have laid before me. You think you risk little where I am; and I believe I)Tj T* (shall come well out of it if I and Thorstein try our strength together.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this Thrand took charge of the cattle. He understood, ere he had been long there, whither Steinar)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had had his cattle taken, and he sat by them on Stack-moor. When Thorstein was aware of this, he sent)Tj T* (a house-carle to seek Thrand, bidding him tell Thrand the boundary between his land and Steinar’s.)Tj T* (When the house-carle came to Thrand, he told him his errand, and bade him take the cattle)Tj T* (otherwither, saying that the land on which they were belonged to Thorstein Egil’s son. Thrand said, ’I)Tj T* (care not a jot who owns the land; I shall take the cattle where I think the pasture is best.’ Then they)Tj T* (parted: the house-carle went home and told him the thrall’s answer. Thorstein let the matter rest, and)Tj T* (Thrand took to sitting by the cattle night and day.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 254.4001 Tm (Chapter 86 - Slaying of Thrand.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 230.2002 Tm (One morning Thorstein rose with the sun, and went up on the hill. He saw where Steinar’s cattle were.)Tj T* (Then went Thorstein out on the moor till he came to the cattle. There stands a wood-clad rock by)Tj T* (Hafs-brook: upon this Thrand was lying asleep, having put off his shoes. Thorstein mounted the rock:)Tj T* (he had in his hand a small axe, and no other weapon. With the shaft of the axe he poked Thrand, and)Tj T* (bade him wake. Up he jumped swiftly and suddenly, gripped his axe with both hands and raised it)Tj T* (aloft, and asked Thorstein what he wanted. He replied, ’I wish to tell you that this land is mine; yours)Tj T* (is the pasture beyond the brook. It is no wonder if you do not yet know the landmarks here.’ Said)Tj T* (Thrand, ’It makes no odds to me who owns the land: I shall let the cattle be where they please.’ ’’Tis)Tj T* (likely,’ said Thorstein, ’that I shall wish myself, and not Steinar’s thralls, to rule my own land.’ Said)Tj T* (Thrand, ’You are a far more foolish man, Thorstein, than I judged you to be, if you will take)Tj T* (night-quarters under my axe, and for this risk your honours. Methinks, from what I see, I have twice)Tj T* (your strength; nor lack I courage: better weaponed am I also than you.’ Thorstein replied: ’That risk I)Tj ET endstream endobj 369 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 371 0 obj << /Length 4722 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (shall run, if you do not as I say about the pasture. I hope that our good fortune may differ much, as)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (does the justice of our cause.’ Thrand said: ’Now shall you see, Thorstein, whether I at all fear your)Tj T* (threats.’ And with that Thrand sat down and tied on his shoe. But Thorstein raised his axe swiftly, and)Tj T* (smote on Thrand’s neck so that his head fell forward on his breast. Then Thorstein heaped some stones)Tj T* (over him and covered his body, which done, he went home to Borg.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (On that day Steinar’s cattle were late in coming home; and when there seemed no hope of their)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (coming, Steinar took his horse and saddled it, and fully armed himself. He then rode to Borg. And)Tj T* (when he came there he found men to speak to, and asked where Thorstein was. It was told him that he)Tj T* (was sitting within. Then Steinar asked that he should come out; he had \(he said\) an errand with him.)Tj T* (Which when Thorstein heard, he took his weapons and went out to the door. Then he asked Steinar)Tj T* (what was his errand. ’Have you slain Thrand my thrall?’ said Steinar. ’Truly I have,’ said Thorstein;)Tj T* (’you need not put that upon any other man.’ ’Then I see,’ said Steinar, ’that you mean to guard your)Tj T* (land with the strong hand, since you have slain my two thralls: yet methinks this is no great exploit.)Tj T* (Now will I offer you in this a far better choice, if you wish to guard your land by force: I shall not trust)Tj T* (other men with the driving of my cattle, but be you sure of this, the cattle shall be on your land both)Tj T* (night and day.’ ’So it is,’ said Thorstein, ’that I slew last summer your thrall, whom you set to feed)Tj T* (cattle on my land, but afterwards let you have the feed as you would up to the winter. Now have I slain)Tj T* (another thrall of yours, for the same fault as the former. Again you shall have the feed from now)Tj T* (through the summer, as you will. But next summer, if you feed on my land, and set men to drive your)Tj T* (cattle thither, then will I go on slaying for you every man that tends them, though it be yourself. I will)Tj T* (act this every summer while you hold to the manner of grazing that you have begun.’ )Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Steinar rode away and home to Brekka. And a little while after Steinar rode up to Stafar-holt,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (where Einar then dwelt. He was a priest. Steinar asked his help, and offered him money. Einar said,)Tj T* (’You will gain little by my help, unless more men of honour back you in this cause.’ After that Steinar)Tj T* (rode up to Reykjar-dale to see Tongue-Odd, and asked his help and offered him money. Odd took the)Tj T* (money, and promised his help; he was to strengthen Steinar to take the law of Thorstein. Then Steinar)Tj T* (rode home.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But in the spring Odd and Einar went with Steinar on the journey of summons, taking a large)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (company. Steinar summoned Thorstein for thrall-slaying, and claimed lesser outlawry as the penalty of)Tj T* (each slaying. For this was the law, when thralls of anyone were slain, and the fine for the thrall was)Tj T* (not brought to the owner before the third sunrise. But two charges of lesser outlawry were equivalent)Tj T* (to one of full outlawry. Thorstein brought no counter-summons on any charge.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And soon after he sent men southwards to Ness, who came to Grim as Moss-fell and there told these)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (tidings. Egil did not show much interest about it, but he quietly learned by the questions what had)Tj T* (passed between Thorstein and Steinar, as also about those who had strengthened Steinar in this cause.)Tj T* (Then the messengers went home, and Thorstein appeared well pleased with their journey.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorstein Egil’s son took a numerous company to the spring-tide Thing: he came there one night)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (before other men, and they roofed their booths, he and the Thingmen who had booths there. And when)Tj T* (they had made all arrangements, then Thorstein bade his Thingmen set to work, and they built there)Tj T* (large booth-walls. Then he had roofed in a far larger booth than the other that were there. In this booth)Tj T* (were no men.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Steinar rode to the Thing also with a numerous company, as did Tongue-Odd, and Einar from)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Stafar-holt; they roofed their booths. The Thing was a very full one. Men pleaded their causes.)Tj T* (Thorstein offered no atonement for himself, but to those who advised atonement made answer, that he)Tj T* (meant to abide by judgment. He said that he thought the cause which Steinar came, about the slaying)Tj ET endstream endobj 372 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 374 0 obj << /Length 4698 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (of his thralls, was little worth; Steinar’s thralls, he argued, had done enough to deserve death. Steinar)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (was high and mighty about his cause: he had, as he thought, charges good in law, and helpers strong)Tj T* (enough to win his rights. So he was most impetuous in his cause.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That day men went to the Thing-brink and spoke their pleadings; but in the evening the judges were to)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (go out to try suits. Thorstein was there with his train; he had there chief authority as to the rules of the)Tj T* (Thing, for so it had been while Egil held priesthood and headship. Both parties were fully armed.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And now it was seen from the Thing that a troop of men was riding down along Cleave-river with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (gleaming shields. And when they rode into the Thing, there rode foremost a man in a blue mantle. He)Tj T* (had on his head a gilded helm, by his side a gold-decked shield, in his hand a barbed spear whose)Tj T* (socket was overlaid with gold, and a sword at his girdle. Thither had come Egil Skallagrim’s son with)Tj T* (eighty men, all well-weaponed, as if arrayed for battle. A choice company it was: Egil had brought)Tj T* (with him the best landowners’ sons from the southern Nesses, those whom he thought the most)Tj T* (warlike. With this troop Egil rode to the booth which Thorstein had had roofed, a booth hitherto)Tj T* (empty. They dismounted. And when Thorstein perceived his father’s coming, he with all his troop)Tj T* (went to meet him, and bade him welcome. Egil and his force had their travelling gear carried into the)Tj T* (booth, and their horses turned out to pasture. This done, Egil and Thorstein with the whole troop went)Tj T* (up to the Thing-brink, and sat them down where they were wont to sit.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Egil stood up and spoke with loud voice: ’Is Aunund Sjoni here on the Thing-brink?’ Aunund)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (replied that he was there. And he said, ’I am glad, Egil, that you are come. This will set right all the)Tj T* (dispute here between these men.’ ’Is it by your counsel,’ said Egil, ’that your son Steinar brings a)Tj T* (charge against my son Thorstein, and has gathered much people to this end, to make Thorstein an)Tj T* (outcast?’ ’Of this I am not the cause,’ said Aunund, ’that they are quarrelling. I have spend many a)Tj T* (word and begged Steinar to be reconciled with Thorstein; for in any case I would have spared your son)Tj T* (Thorstein disgrace: and good cause for this is the loving friendship of old that has been between us)Tj T* (two, Egil, since we grew up here as next-door neighbours.’ ’It will soon be clear,’ said Egil, ’whether)Tj T* (you speak this as truth or vain words; though I think this latter can hardly be. I remember the day when)Tj T* (either of us had deemed it incredible that one should be accusing the other, or that we should not)Tj T* (control our sons from going on with such folly as I hear this is like to prove. To me this seems right)Tj T* (counsel, while we both live and are so nearly concerned with their quarrel, that we take this cause into)Tj T* (our own hands and quash it, and let not Tongue-Odd and Einar match our sons together like fighting)Tj T* (horses. Let them henceforth find some other way than this of making money.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then stood up Aunund and spoke: ’Rightly say you, Egil; and it ill-beseems us to be at a Thing where)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (our sons quarrel. Never shall that shame be ours, that we lacked the manhood to reconcile them. Now,)Tj T* (Steinar, I will that you give this cause into my hands, and let me deal with it as I please.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’I am not sure,’ said Steinar, ’that I will so abandon my cause; for I have already sought me the help of)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (great men. I will now only bring my cause to such an issue as shall content Odd and Einar.’ Then Odd)Tj T* (and Steinar talked together. Odd said, ’I will give you, Steinar, the help that I promised towards)Tj T* (getting law, or for such issue of the cause as you may consent to accept. You will be mainly)Tj T* (answerable for how your cause goes, if Egil is to be judge therein.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Whereupon Aunund said: ’I need not leave this matter to the tongue of Odd. Of him I have had neither)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (good or bad; but Egil has done to me much that is very good. I trust him far more than others; and I)Tj T* (shall have my way in this. It will be for your advantage not to have all of us on your hands. I have)Tj T* (hitherto ruled for us both, and will do so still.’ Steinar said, ’You are right eager about this cause,)Tj T* (father; but I think we shall oft rue this.’)Tj ET endstream endobj 375 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 377 0 obj << /Length 4079 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (After this Steinar made over the cause to Aunund to prosecute or compromise according to law. And)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (no sooner had Aunund the management of this cause, than he went to seek the father and son,)Tj T* (Thorstein and Egil. Then said Aunund: ’Now I will, Egil, that you alone shape and shear in this matter)Tj T* (as you will, for I trust you best to deal with this my cause as with all others.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorstein and Aunund took hands, and named them witnesses, declaring withal that Egil)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Skallagrimsson should along judge this cause, as he would, without appeal, then and there at the)Tj T* (Thing. And so ended this suit.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Now men went home to their booths. Thorstein had three oxen led to Egil’s booth and slaughtered for)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (the Thing banquet.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (And when Tongue-Odd and Steinar came home to their booth, Odd said: ’Now have you, Steinar, and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (your father ruled the issue of your suit. I now declare myself free of debt to you, Steinar, in regard of)Tj T* (that help which I promised you; for it was agreed between us that I should help you in carrying)Tj T* (through your suit, or to such issue as should content you; free am I, I say, whatever may be the terms)Tj T* (adjudged you by Egil.’ Steinar said that Odd had helped him well and manfully, and their friendship)Tj T* (should be closer than before. ’I pronounce you,’ he said, ’free of debt to me in regard of that whereto)Tj T* (you were bound.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the evening the judges went out; but nothing happened that needs to be told.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 454.6 Tm (Chapter 87 - Of Egil and Aunund Sjoni.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 430.4 Tm (The next day Egil Skallagrimsson went to the Thing-brink, and with him Thorstein and all their party.)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Thither came also Aunund and Steinar, Tongue-Odd and Einar, and company. And when the law)Tj T* (pleadings were finished, then stood up Egil and spoke thus: ’Are Steinar and Aunund, father and son,)Tj T* (present, so that they can hear my words?’ Aunund answered that they were.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Then will I,’ said Egil, ’deliver my judgment between Steinar and Thorstein. I begin the cause with)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (this: Grim my father came to this island, and took to him here all the land of Myrar and the district)Tj T* (round about, and chose him a homestead at Borg, and assigned a parcel of land thereto, but gave to his)Tj T* (friends choice of land outside that same, in which they have since settled. To Ani he gave a homestead)Tj T* (at Anabrekka, where Aunund and Steinar have hitherto dwelt. We all know this, Steinar, what are the)Tj T* (landmarks between Borg and Anabrekka, that the chief one is Hafs-brook. Now therefore not from)Tj T* (ignorance, Steinar, did you act in grazing on Thorstein’s land, for you, Steinar, and you, Aunund,)Tj T* (might know that Ani received the land of my father Grim: but you encroached on his land, thinking)Tj T* (that he would be so degenerate as tamely to submit to your robbery. But Thorstein slew two thralls of)Tj T* (yours. Now it is evident to all that these died for their ill-deeds, and are therefore unatonable, nay,)Tj T* (even had they been free men, yet had they been unatonable, no fine could have been claimed for them.)Tj T* (But as for you, Steinar, seeing that you devised to rob my son Thorstein of his property which he took)Tj T* (with my authority, and I took by inheritance after my father, you shall therefore lose your land at)Tj T* (Anabrekka, and have no payment for the same. And further, you shall have neither homestead nor)Tj T* (lodgment here in the district south of Long-river. And you must quit Anabrekka before flitting days)Tj T* (are past; else may you, immediately after flitting days, be slain with impunity by any who wish to help)Tj T* (Thorstein, if you refuse to go away or break any of these terms that I have pronounced for you.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (But when Egil sat down, then Thorstein named witnesses to his decision.)Tj ET endstream endobj 378 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 380 0 obj << /Length 4717 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Then spoke Aunund Sjoni: ’’Twill be said, Egil, that this judgment which you have given and)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (pronounced is very crooked. And what I have to say is this: hitherto I have done all I could to prevent)Tj T* (strife, but henceforth I shall not spare to do what I can to harm Thorstein.’ ’This I forebode,’ said Egil,)Tj T* (’that the longer our quarrel lasts, the worse will be the fortune of you and your son. I thought you must)Tj T* (have known, Aunund, that I have held mine own before men quite as great as are you and your son.)Tj T* (But for Odd and Einar, who have so eagerly thrust themselves into this cause, they have reaped)Tj T* (therefrom due honour.’)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 630.6 Tm (Chapter 88 - Of Thorgeir.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 606.4 Tm (Thorgeir Blund was there at the Thing, Egil’s sister’s son; he had given Thorstein much help in this)Tj T* (suit. He begged father and son to give him some land out there on the Moors. Hitherto he had dwelt)Tj T* (south of White-river below Blunds-water. Egil received the request well, and persuaded Thorstein to)Tj T* (let him come thither. So they settled Thorgeir at Anabrekka, but Steinar moved house beyond)Tj T* (Long-river and settled down at Leiru-brook. But Egil rode home southwards to Ness, father and son)Tj T* (parting on friendly terms.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (There was a man with Thorstein named Iri, fleet of foot and keen of sight above others; he was a)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (foreigner, a freedman of Thorstein’s, but he still had the care of his flocks, and especially to gather the)Tj T* (wethers up to the fell in spring, and in autumn down to the fold. Now, after flitting days, Thorstein)Tj T* (bade gather the wethers that had been left behind in spring, meaning to have them driven to the fell. Iri)Tj T* (was there in the sheepfold, but Thorstein and his house-carles rode up to the fell, being eight in all.)Tj T* (Thorstein was having a fence made across Grisar-tongue, between Long-water and Cleave-river; at)Tj T* (which many of his men were employed in the spring. After inspecting his house-carles’ work here,)Tj T* (Thorstein rode homewards. Now as he came over against the Thing-field, Iri came running to meet)Tj T* (them, and said that he wished to speak to Thorstein alone. Thorstein bade his companions ride on)Tj T* (while they spoke together. Iri said he had gone up to Einkunnir that day, and looked to the sheep. ’But)Tj T* (I saw,’ said he, ’in the wood above the winter road the gleam of twelve spears and some shields.’ Then)Tj T* (Thorstein said in a loud voice, so that his companions could hear: ’Why can he be in such a hurry to)Tj T* (see me that I may not ride on my way home? However Aulvald will think it strange that I refuse him)Tj T* (the visit if he is sick.’ Iri then ran up to the fell as fast as he could. Thorstein said to his companions: ’I)Tj T* (think we must lengthen our way, for we must first ride south to Aulvaldstead. Aulvald send me word I)Tj T* (am to go to him. And he will think it no more than a fair return for the ox that he gave me last autumn)Tj T* (that I should go and see him, if he deems the matter important.’ Whereupon Thorstein with his)Tj T* (company rode south by the moor above Stangar-holt, and so on south to Gufa-river, and down along)Tj T* (the river by the riding-path. And when they came down below the lake, they saw south of the river)Tj T* (man cattle and a man with them. He was a house-carle of Aulvald’s. Thorstein asked whether all was)Tj T* (well there. He said that all was well, and that Aulvald was in the copse cutting wood. ’Then tell him,’)Tj T* (said Thorstein, ’if he has an urgent errand with me, to come to Borg, for I will now ride home.’ And so)Tj T* (he did. It was afterwards learnt that Steinar, with eleven more, had lain in ambush at Einkunnir that)Tj T* (same day. Thorstein made as though he had heard nought of it, and things remained quiet.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 178.6 Tm (Chapter 89 - Thorstein goes to a feast.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 154.4001 Tm (There was a man named Thorgeir, a kinsman and friend of Thorstein: he dwelt then at Swan-ness.)Tj T* (Thorgeir was wont to have a harvest feast every autumn. He went to Thorstein Egil’s son and asked)Tj T* (him to his house. Thorstein promised to come, and Thorgeir went home. But on the appointed day)Tj T* (Thorstein made him ready to go: it wanted then four weeks of winter. With Thorstein went an)Tj T* (Easterling, his guest, and two house-carles. There was a son of Thorstein named Grim, who was then)Tj T* (ten years old; he too went with Thorstein, thus they were five in all. And they rode out to Foss, there)Tj ET endstream endobj 381 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 384 0 obj << /Length 4427 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (they crossed Long-river, then out, as the road lay, to Aurrida-river. On the outer bank of that river)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Steinar was at work, and Aunund, and their house-carles. And when they perceived Thorstein they ran)Tj T* (to their weapons, then pursued his party. On seeing Steinar’s pursuit, these rode outside Long-holt.)Tj T* (There is a hillock, high and bare of wood. Thorstein’s party dismounted there, and climbed the hillock.)Tj T* (Thorstein bade the boy Grim go into the wood, and not be present at the encounter. As soon as Steinar)Tj T* (and his company came to the hillock they set upon Thorstein’s party, and there was a fight. There were)Tj T* (in Steinar’s band six grown men in all, and a seventh was Steinar’s son, ten years old. This encounter)Tj T* (was seen by those who were on the meadows from other farms, and they ran to part them. But by the)Tj T* (time they were parted both Thorstein’s house-carles had lost their lives, one house-carle of Steinar’s)Tj T* (had fallen, and several were wounded.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After they were parted Thorstein sought for Grim. And they found him sore wounded, while Steinar’s)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (son lay there by him dead. And when Thorstein leapt on his horse, then Steinar called after him, ’You)Tj T* (run now, Thorstein the white.’ Thorstein answered, ’You shall run further ere a week be out.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Then Thorstein with his company rode out over the moor, taking with them the boy Grim. And when)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (they came to the holt that is there, the boy died; and they buried him there in the holt, called since)Tj T* (Grimsholt. And the place where they fought is called Battle-hillock.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorstein rode to Swan-ness that evening, as he had intended, and sat there at the feast three nights,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (after which he made him ready to go home. Men offered to go with him, but he would not; so he and)Tj T* (his Easterling friend rode two together.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (That same day Steinar, expecting that Thorstein would be riding home, rode out along the shore. But)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (when he came to the dunes below Lamba-stead he lay in wait there. He had the sword named Skrymir,)Tj T* (an excellent weapon. He stood there on the sandhill with drawn sword and eyes turned one way, for he)Tj T* (saw Thorstein riding out on the sand. Lambi, who dwelt at Lamba-stead, saw what Steinar was doing.)Tj T* (He left the house and went down the back, and, when he came to Steinar, he gripped him behind)Tj T* (between the shoulders. 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Then Egil sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Steinar my word erewhile)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Stript of his fruitful acres:)Tj T* (So did I hope to help)Tj T* (The heir of Geir and Kettle.)Tj ET endstream endobj 385 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 387 0 obj << /Length 2884 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (False, though he promised fair,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (My sister’s son hath failed me.)Tj T* (Blund now \(whereat I wonder\))Tj T* (Withholds him not from ill.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Thorgeir Blund left Anabrekka, and went south to Floka-dale; for Thorstein saw he could not get on)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (with him, and yet wished to be forbearing. Thorstein was a man with no trickery, just, and never)Tj T* (aggressive on others, but he held his own if others attacked him. But it proved disastrous to most to)Tj T* (match their force with him.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Odd was then head-man in Borgar-firth, south of White-river. He was temple-priest, and ruled over)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (that temple, to which all paid tribute within Skards-heath.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 569.0001 Tm (Chapter 90 - Death of Egil Skallagrim’s son.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 544.8 Tm (Egil Skallagrim’s son now grew old, and in his old age became heavy in movement, and dull both in)Tj T* (hearing and sight; he became also stiff in the legs. Egil was at Moss-fell with Grim and Thordis. It)Tj T* (happened one day that as Egil went out along the house-wall he stumbled and fell. Some women saw)Tj T* (this, and laughed, saying: ’You are now quite gone, Egil, if you fall when alone.’ Then said the master)Tj T* (Grim, ’Women jeered at us less when we were younger.’ Egil then sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Old haltered horse I waver,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Bald-head I weakly fall:)Tj T* (Hollow my failing leg-bones,)Tj T* (The fount of hearing dry.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Egil became quite blind. 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Such sorrow)Tj T* (From sightless eyes I bear.)Tj T* (Yet England’s mighty monarch)Tj T* (Me whilom greatly honoured:)Tj T* (And princes once with pleasure)Tj T* (The poet’s accents heard.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (Again, once when Egil went to the fire to warm himself, a man asked him whether his feet were cold,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (and warned him not to put them too near the fire. ’That shall be so,’ said Egil; ’but ’tis not easy)Tj T* (steering my feet now that I cannot see; a very dismal thing is blindness.’ Then Egil sang:)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (’Lonely I lie,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (And think it long,)Tj T* (Carle worn with eld)Tj T* (From kings’ courts exiled.)Tj T* (Feet twain have I,)Tj T* (Frosty and cold,)Tj ET endstream endobj 388 0 obj << /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] /Font << /TT2 4 0 R /TT4 10 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS1 5 0 R >> >> endobj 390 0 obj << /Length 4564 >> stream BT /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 743.8 Tm 0 g /GS1 gs 0 Tc 0 Tw (Bedfellows needing)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (Blaze of fire.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the later days of Hacon the Great Egil Skallagrim’s son was in his ninth decade of years, and save)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (for his blindness was a hale and hearty man. 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Kicks, I fancy, there will be and blows; nay, it may end in a general fight of all the assembled)Tj T* (Thing.’ Thordis said: ’A famous plan, methinks, is this, and it will be remembered so long as Iceland)Tj T* (is inhabited.’)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (After this Thordis went to speak with Grim and told him Egil’s plan. ’That shall never be,’ said he,)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (’that he carry this out, such monstrous folly.’ And when Egil came to speak with Grim of their going)Tj T* (to the Thing, Grim talked him out of it all; and Egil sat at home during the Thing. But he did not like)Tj T* (it, and he wore a frowning look.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (At Moss-fell were the summer-sheds of the milch kine, and during the Thing-time Thordis was at the)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (sheds. It chanced one evening, when the household at Moss-fell were preparing to go to bed, that Egil)Tj T* (called to him two thralls of Grim’s. He bade them bring him a horse. ’I will go to the warm bath, and)Tj T* (you shall go with me,’ said he. 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Many feel sure that ’tis there Egil hid his money.)Tj T* (And south of the river are hot springs, and hard by there large earthholes, and some men guess that)Tj T* (Egil must have hidden his money there, because out that way cairn-fires were often seen to hover. Egil)Tj T* (said that he had slain Grim’s thralls, also that he had hidden the chests, but where he had hidden them)Tj T* (he told no man.)Tj 0 -2.2 TD (In the autumn following Egil fell sick of the sickness whereof he died. When he was dead, then Grim)Tj 0 -1.2 TD (had Egil dressed in goodly raiment, and carried down to Tjalda-ness; there a sepulchral mound was)Tj T* (made, and in it was Egil laid with his weapons and his raiment.)Tj /TT2 1 Tf 17 0 0 17 71 177.4002 Tm (Chapter 91 - Grim takes the Christian faith.)Tj /TT4 1 Tf 11 0 0 11 71 153.2002 Tm (Grim of Moss-fell was baptized when Christianity was established by law in Iceland. 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