CHAPTER THREE
How Cormac Fell In Love.

There was a man named Thorkel lived at Tunga (Tongue). He was a
wedded man, and had a daughter called Steingerd who was fostered
in Gnupsdal (Knipedale).

Now it was one autumn that a whale came ashore at Vatnsnes
(Watsness), and it belonged to the brothers, Dalla's sons.
Thorgils asked Cormac would he rather go shepherding on the fell,
or work at the whale. He chose to fare on the fell with the
house-carles.

Tosti, the foreman, it was should be master of the sheep-
gathering: so he and Cormac went together until they came to
Gnupsdal. It was night: there was a great hall, and fires for
men to sit at.

That evening Steingerd came out of her bower, and a maid with
her. Said the maid, "Steingerd mine, let us look at the guests."

"Nay," she said, "no need": and yet went to the door, and stepped
on the threshold, and spied across the gate. Now there was a
space between the wicker and the threshold, and her feet showed
through. Cormac saw that, and made this song: --

(1)
"At the door of my soul she is standing,