Njal's Saga (2010)
Njal's Saga
“She said, ‘My dreams have been harsh, not good – go and search for Hoskuld.’ They searched for him around the farm and did not find him. By then she had dressed. She went with two men to the field; there they found Hoskuld slain.
Mord’s shepherd came up just then and told her that Skarphedin and his party had been riding away from there – ‘and Skarphedin called out to me and announced that he had done the slaying.’ ‘A manly deed this would have been,’ she said, ‘if one man had done it’ She pick...ed up the cloak and wiped up all the blood with it and wrapped the clotted blood into the cloak and folded it and placed it in her chest.
Next she sent a man up to Grjota to carry the news there. Mord had already come and told them. Ketil of Mork had also come there.
Thorgerd spoke to Ketil: ‘Hoskuld is dead, as we know. Now keep in mind what you promised when you took him as your foster-son.’ ‘It may well be,’ he said, ‘that I made many promises then, because I never expected that days like these would come.MoreLess
Mord’s shepherd came up just then and told her that Skarphedin and his party had been riding away from there – ‘and Skarphedin called out to me and announced that he had done the slaying.’ ‘A manly deed this would have been,’ she said, ‘if one man had done it’ She pick...ed up the cloak and wiped up all the blood with it and wrapped the clotted blood into the cloak and folded it and placed it in her chest.
Next she sent a man up to Grjota to carry the news there. Mord had already come and told them. Ketil of Mork had also come there.
Thorgerd spoke to Ketil: ‘Hoskuld is dead, as we know. Now keep in mind what you promised when you took him as your foster-son.’ ‘It may well be,’ he said, ‘that I made many promises then, because I never expected that days like these would come.MoreLess
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