a bag, and draw it over his head. Stigandi woke at that, and made no
struggle, for now there were many men to one. The sack had a slit in
it, and Stigandi could see out through it the slope on the other side;
there the lay of the land was fair, and it was covered with thick
grass. But suddenly something like a whirlwind came on, and turned the
sward topsy-turvy, so that the grass never grew there again. It is now
called Brenna. Then they stoned Stigandi to death, and there he was
buried under a heap of stones. Olaf kept his word to the bonds-woman,
and gave her her freedom, and she went home to Herdholt. Hallbjorn
Whetstone-eye was washed up by the surf a short time after he was
drowned. It was called Knorstone where he was put in the earth, and
his ghost walked about there a great deal. There was a man named
Thorkell Skull who lived at Thickshaw on his father's inheritance. He
was a man of very dauntless heart and mighty of muscle. One evening a
cow was missing at Thickshaw, and Thorkell and his house-carle went to
look for it. It was after sunset, but was bright moonlight. Thorkell
said they must separate in their search, and when Thorkell was alone
he thought he saw the cow on a hill-rise in front of him, but when he
came up to it he saw it was Whetstone-eye and no cow. They fell upon
each in mighty strength. Hallbjorn kept on the defensive, and when
Thorkell least expected it he crept down into the earth out of his
hands. After that Thorkell went home. The house-carle had come home
already, and had found the cow. No more harm befell ever again from
Hallbjorn. Thorbjorn Skrjup was dead by then, and so was Melkorka, and
they both lie in a cairn in Salmon-river-Dale. Lambi, their son, kept
house there after them. He was very warrior-like, and had a great deal
of money. Lambi was more thought of by people than his father had
been, chiefly because of his mother's relations; and between him and
Olaf there was fond brotherhood. [Sidenote: Olaf and Thorliek meet]
Now the winter next after the killing of Kotkell passed away. In the