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it that with two ships he disabled twelve ships of the Danes, and gave to Tryggva, son of his brother
Olaf, the name of king and the rule over Vik eastwards.
Egil in the summer made ready his merchant-ship and got thereto a crew. But the long-ship that he had
brought from Denmark in the autumn he gave to Thorstein at parting. Thorstein gave Egil good gifts,
and they pledged them to close friendship. Egil sent messengers to Thord, his wife s kinsman, at
Aurland, and gave him charge to arrange for those lands that Egil owned in Sogn and Hordaland,
bidding him sell them if there were a buyer. And when Egil was ready for his voyage, they sailed out
along the bay, and then northwards along the Norway coast, and afterwards out into the main. They
had a fairly good breeze, and came from the main into Borgar-firth; and Egil steered his ship up the
firth to the haven close to his own house. He had his cargo conveyed home, and his ship set up on
wooden props. Egil went home to his house: fain were folk to see him; and there he stayed for that
winter.
Chapter 80 - Of the marriages of Egil s daughters.
By the time that Egil came out to Iceland from this journey, the whole district was settled. All the
original land-takers were dead, but their sons or sons sons were living, and dwelt there in the district.
There was a man named Grim, son of Sverting; he dwelt at Moss-fell below the heath; rich was he and
of good family; his sister was Rannveig whom Thorod, the priest in Olvos, had to wife; their son was
Skapti the lawman. Grim was also afterwards lawman. He asked to wife Thordis daughter of Thorolf
Egil s brother, and stepdaughter of Egil. Egil loved Thordis no whit less than his own children. She
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was a very beautiful woman. And since Egil knew that Grim was a wealthy man and the match was a
good one, it was so settled, and Thordis was given to Grim. Then Egil paid over to her her father s
heritage, and she went home with Grim, and the pair dwelt long at Moss-fell.
There was a man named Olaf, son of Hauskuld Dale-koll s son and Melkorka daughter of Myrkjartan
king of the Irish. Olaf dwelt at Hjardarholt in Lax-river-dale, westward in Broad-firth dales. Olaf was
very wealthy, the handsomest man in Iceland of his time, of a noble character. He asked to wife
Thorgerdr, Egil s daughter. Thorgerdr was comely, tall above woman s wont, wise, rather
proud-spirited, but in daily life gentle. Egil was well acquainted with Olaf, and knew that the match
was a worthy one, wherefore Thorgerdr was given to Olaf. She went home with him to Hjardarholt.
Auzur, Eyvind s son, brother of Thorod in Olvos, had to wife Egil s daughter Bera.
Chapter 81 - Death of Bodvar: Egil s poem thereon.
Bodvar Egil s son was just now growing up; he was a youth of great promise, handsome, tall and
strong as had been Egil or Thorolf at his age. Egil loved him dearly, and Bodvar was very fond of his
father. One summer it happened that there was a ship in White-river, and a great fair was held there.
Egil had there bought much wood, which he was having conveyed home by water: for this his
house-carles went, taking with them an eight-oared boat belonging to Egil. It chanced one time that
Bodvar begged to go with them, and they allowed him so to do. So he went into the field with the
house-carles. They were six in all on the eight-oared boat. And when they had to go out again,
high-water was late in the day, and, as they must needs wait for the turn of tide, they did not start till
late in the evening. Then came on a violent south-west gale, against which ran the stream of the ebb.
This made a rough sea in the firth, as can often happen. The end was that the boat sank under them,
and all were lost. The next day the bodies were cast up: Bodvar s body came on shore at Einars-ness,
but some came in on the south shore of the firth, whither also the boat was driven, being found far in
near Reykjarhamar.
Egil heard these tidings that same day, and at once rode to seek the bodies: he found Bodvar s, took it
up and set it on his knees, and rode with it out to Digra-ness, to Skallagrim s mound. Then he had the
mound opened, and laid Bodvar down there by Skallagrim. After which the mound was closed again;
this task was not finished till about nightfall. Egil then rode home to Borg, and, when he came home,
he went at once to the locked bed-closet in which he was wont to sleep. He lay down, and shut himself
in, none daring to crave speech of him.
It is said that when they laid Bodvar in earth Egil was thus dressed: his hose were tight-fitting to his
legs, he wore a red kirtle of fustian, closely-fitting, and laced at the sides: but they say that his muscles
so swelled with his exertion that the kirtle was rent off him, as were also the hose.
On the next day Egil still did not open the bed-closet: he had no meat or drink: there he lay for that day
and the following night, no man daring to speak with him. But on the third morning, as soon as it was
light, Asgerdr had a man set on horseback, who rode as hard as he could westwards to Hjardarholt, and
told Thorgerdr all these tidings; it was about nones when he got there. He said also that Asgerdr had [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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