92 DANIEL BRUUN. 
They asked where he intended going. He answered that he was searching 
the man who had wounded Thorgrim. So they turned in opposite direc- 
tions, and as both parties walked very quickly they were soon far apart 
from each other. 
Skuf and Biarni missed Thormod and they suspected that 
it was he who was guilty of the assault as, m Norway, Skuf had heard 
what the king had hinted — that Thorgeir Havarson's death would 
be revenged.” 
They searched for him and took him on board their vessel, explaining 
to him the danger which overhung him, as the mighty chieftain’s kinsmen 
naturally would pursue him, but he answered them in å song how glåd 
he was about what he had done, and that he would furthermore extend 
the revenge of bloodshed to Thorgrim Trolle's friends and family. 
“They took Thormod with them to Ericsfiord and accompanied 
him to a cave in the rocks, which is now called Thormod’s cave. It lies 
at the edge of the sea in a cliff on one side of the Fjord just opposite 
Stokkaness. Above and under the cave are rocks, which are very steep 
and very difficult to ascend. Skuf and Biarni then said to Thormod: 
“Thou must remain here in the cave, but we shall come to thee as soon 
as the assize is dissolved.” 
They then went back to the assize. They missed Thormod there 
and people took it for granted that he had killed Thormod. Büdvar and 
Falgeir brought an action against him for manslaughter, and Thormod 
was pronounced on outlaw. 
After the assize was ended everyone went home. Skuf and Biarni 
repaired to Thormod and brought him food and what he otherwise 
would need, likewise they told him of the sentence of outlawry which 
had been pronounced over him. They advised him therefore to remain 
in the cave, as he could not live in peace anywhere else, if people got 
to know where he was to be found. They promised to visit him every 
now and then. In front of the entrance to the cave, was a big piece of 
ground, overgrown with grass; but even nimble men could hardly jump 
from the point of the cliff down onto the grass-plot. 
The sojourn in the cave bored Thormod, ås he could not find any- 
thing to do to pass the time with. One fine day he decided to go out of 
the cave. He climbed up the cliff taking his axe with him. After having 
gone a little way, he met a man, who was tall, but terrible, ugly and 
loathsome to look at. He had a coat on made only of rags in squares 
like tripe, having at the top a hood of the same sort. It was full of 
vermin. Thormod asked the man his name. He answered: “I am called 
Oddi.” 
“What sort of man art thou?” 
"I am a beggar, swift in running and they call me Louse-Oddi. I have 
no fixed service, but I am no Паг and I know much. I benefit by people’s 
charitableness; but what art thou called?” 
