IN NORTHERN MISTS 



bidding her live happily. But Halfdan sprang into the air, 

 seized the third Wine-king, and tore him off at the navel. 

 Halfdan sailed back to Ireland, brought Ingebjorg these 



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Map by the Icelander Jon Gudmundsson, born 1574 [Torfaeus, 1706] 



tidings and the ring, and slept three nights with her, but on 

 the fourth she dies of grief, since she can love no chieftain 

 after Finn. Halfdan had a castle built for himself and passed 

 his years in Ireland, but all his days he mourned for his 

 brother. Although the whole of this legend seems to have 

 no connection with what we know about Wineland, it is 

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