94 DANIEL BRUUN. 
“Torrad !” 
“What man art thou Torrad!” 
“T am a merchant, wilt thou trade with me 
"I have not much to trade with, but by the way, what wilt thou 
trade with?” 
“I will buy the coat, thou hast оп.” 
“Thou shalt not make fun of me.” 
“That is not my intention. I will sell you the cloak I have on for 
the coat thou hast on, if thou wilt go on a message for me to Stok- 
kaness, where thou must be this evening, and tell Skuf and Biarni that 
thou hast met a man today who called himself Torrad, and who 
changed overcoats with thee. Thou shalt have no more errands, and 
if thou fulfillest this one well, the cloak is thine.” 
“It is not easy to cross the fiord, I require shall a boat but 1 
will see about fulfillmg the errand. I shall do everything in my power 
to be at Stokkaness this evening.” 
So they exchanged their overclothing. Oddi took the black cloak, 
and gave Thormod the coat, which he put on. 
Thormod went to Einarsfiord, and there he met a shepherd who 
served Thordis at Lönguness, and he asked him if Thordis’s sons were at 
home. 
The shepherd answered: 
“Bödvar is not at home, but his brothers were at home last night: 
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“they are now out fishing. 
“Very well.” 
The shepherd thought that this man must be Louse-Oddi. They 
soon parted, and Thormod went to Thordis’s boat-shed, where he remain- 
ed until the evening. He then saw the brothers rowing totheland. Thorkel 
sat foremost in the boat, Thord in the middle, and Falgeir in the baling 
part. As the boat was quickly approaching the shore Thorkel went 
into the prow so as tojump on land and take hold of the boat. Thormod 
then went out of the boat-shed, — those arriving thought it was Louse- 
Oddi. Thormod now ran towards Thorkel and struck him with both 
hands on the head so that it split right down to the shoulders, and he 
died at once. Thormod then hurried away, casting the coat from him. 
Thord and Falgeir ran after him; but he ran away from them as fast 
as he could until he reached the cliff on the shore above the cave. Thor- 
mod ran down from its edge onto the grass-plot in front of the cave’s 
entrance; Thord sprang after him; but his knees gave way and he lent for- 
wards as he came down onto the grass. At the same moment Thor- 
mod struck him with his axe so that it sunk between his shoulders 
right down to the handel; but before he could pull the axe out of the 
wound again Falgeir sprang down onto the plot of earth and imme- 
diately struck Thormod. The stroke hit Thormod between the 
shoulders leaving a bad wound. Now Thormod went for Falgeir and 
