The Story of Burnt Njal the Great Icelandic Tribune Jurist And Counsellor
The Story of Burnt Njal the Great Icelandic Tribune Jurist And Counsellor
Dasent George Webbe
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It fell one day that she took a cudgel in her hand, and went up above the house to a stack of vetches. She beat the stack of vetches with her cudgel, and wished it might never thrive "wretch that it was!" Skarphedinn laughed at her, and asked why she was so angry with the vetch stack. "This stack of vetches, " said the carline, "will be taken and lighted with fire when Njal my master is burnt, house and all, and Bergthora my foster-child. Take it away to the water, or burn it up as quick as you... can. " "We will not do that, " says Skarphedinn, "for some- thing else will be got to light a fire with, if that were fore- doomed, though this stack were not here. " The carline babbled the whole summer about the vetch- stack that it should be got indoors, but something always hindered it. 193 THE STORY OF BURNT NJAL CHAPTER LXXIV. OF PORTENTS. At Reykium on Skeid dwelt one Runolf Thorstein's son. His son's name was Hildiglum. He went out on the night of the Lord's day, when nine weeks were still to winter; he heard a great crash, so that he thought both heaven and earth shook.
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