will be no less in Norway, so long as any of Kjartan's friends are
alive." Then Osvif said, "You, Cable-hound, will be no soothsayer in
this matter, for my sons will be highly accounted of among men of high
degree, whilst you, Cable-hound, will pass, this summer, into the
power of trolls." Audun Cable-hound went out a voyage that summer and
the ship was wrecked amongst the Faroe Isles and every man's child on
board perished, and Osvif's prophecy was thought to have come
thoroughly home. The sons of Osvif went abroad that summer, and none
ever came back again. In such a manner the blood-suit came to an end
that Olaf was held to have shown himself all the greater a man,
because where it was due, in the case of the sons of Osvif, to wit, he
drove matters home to the very bone, but spared Bolli for the sake of
their kinship. Olaf thanked men well for the help they had afforded
him. By Olaf's counsel Bolli bought the land at Tongue. It is told
that Olaf lived three winters after Kjartan was slain. After he was
dead his sons shared the inheritance he left behind. Halldor took over
the manor of Herdholt. Thorgerd, their mother, lived with Halldor; she
was most hatefully-minded towards Bolli, and thought the reward he
paid for his fostering a bitter one.




CHAP. LII

The Killing of Thorkell of Goat's Peak


In the spring Bolli and Gudrun set up householding at
Sælingsdale-Tongue, and it soon became a stately one. Bolli and Gudrun