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foreign countries ... lie went out to Sweden and became 

 the companion of Sorkvir, and they ravaged the coast of 

 the Baltic. East of Balagardssida, Thorkel, when going to 

 get water one evening, met a finngalkn (a kind of dragon 

 monster), which after a prolonged struggle he slew. Then he 



Fig. 1094. Door from Vanga Church, Ostergotland, Stockholm Museum. 



went east to Adalsysla, where he also slew a flying dragon ; 

 afterwards he went back to Sweden, thence to Norway, and 

 then to Iceland. He had these great feats carved above his 

 locked bed, and on a chair in front of his high-seat. He was 

 called Thorkel Hak because he spared no one, either in words 

 or deeds, with whomsoever he dealt " (Njala, 120). 



