"Go away, and try no man's temper henceforth."

Then the boy went away saying--

"Thy manliness I will bear in mind all my life."

From this matter Hrut got great praise, and after that they went home;
and that was the end of Mord's and Hrut's quarrel.




CHAPTER IX.

THORWALD GETS HALLGERDA TO WIFE.


Now, it must be told how Hallgerda, Hauskuld's daughter, grows up, and
is the fairest of women to look on; she was tall of stature, too, and
therefore she was called "Longcoat". She was fair-haired, and had so
much of it that she could hide herself in it; but she was lavish and
hard-hearted. Her foster-father's name was Thiostolf; he was a South
islander[6] by stock; he was a strong man, well skilled in arms, and had
slain many men, and made no atonement in money for one of them. It was
said, too, that his rearing had not bettered Hallgerda's temper.

There was a man named Thorwald; he was Oswif's son, and dwelt out on
Middlefells strand, under the Fell. He was rich and well to do, and
owned the islands called Bear-isles, which lie out in Broadfirth, whence