"So'--Well, then, Rolf must remain here."

"That is just what I think, father."

"Were you riding quite alone?"

"No, father; but with a strange pilgrim. He said that he knew you
very well--perhaps too well." And thereupon Sintram began to relate
and to describe all that had passed with the pale man.

"I know him also very well," said Biorn. "He is half crazed and half
wise, as we sometimes are astonished at seeing that people can be.
But do thou, my boy, go to rest after thy wild journey. I give you
my word that Rolf shall be kindly received if he arrive here; and
that if he do not come soon, he shall be sought for in the
mountains."

"I trust to your word, father," said Sintram, half humble, half
proud; and he did after the command of the grim lord of the castle.




CHAPTER 4



Towards evening Sintram awoke. He saw the good Rolf sitting at his
bedside, and looked up in the old man's kind face with a smile of