100 DANIEL BRUUN. 
a thick and badly smelling smoke; besides which, causing a dense dark- 
ness so that one could not see in there. Grima sat on the threshold, 
spinning wool and humming a song that others did not understand. 
Now when the vessels had reached land the people left them and 
went up to the houses. Thorkel was in front. Grima received him 
politely and bade him enter. 
Thorkel answered: 
“Thordis from Lönguness is here with me, and she assumes with 
certainty, that Thormod, her outlaw enemy, is living here with thee. 
We wish thee to deliver him, if thou knowest where he is, as it by no 
means will be adviseable for thee to hide an outlaw from Thordis and 
her son Bédvar.” 
Grima answered : 
“It seems strange to me that Thordis can believe that I hide her 
outlawed enemy. Г am only second in my hut and would not defy such 
mighty people as they at Lünguness”. — 
“Truely it is strange,” answered Thorkel, “but we will search thy 
house-room all the same.” 
Grima answered: 
“You are free to search through my house, even if you had not brought 
so many people with you. I am wont to be glad when thou visitest me, 
but I will be very displeased with the people from Einarsfiord if they 
make havoc or commit violences in my own dwelling.” 
To that Thorkel answered: 
"I and Thordis will go in, so that we two can search the house to- 
gether.” 
They then went in and searched thoroughly; but as the rooms 
were small they did not remain there long. When they opened the door 
into the dwelling-room it was full of smoke, and they saw nothing re- 
markable there. The smoke, on the whole, was very bad everywhere, 
and therefore they remained a much shorter time in the house than 
they otherwise would have done, had it been free from smoke. So they 
went out and ransacked everything near the houses. 
Then Thordis said: 
“I could not see properly what there was in the room on account 
of all the smoke. Let us go up onto the roof and open the “hori” [a cover 
over the opening for smoke and light on the top of the roof], so that 
the smoke can come out and we can see what is in the room.” 
36dvar and Thordis now went up onto the roof of the house and 
opened the “lori.” The smoke broke out and they could see over the 
whole room. They saw Grima’s chair standing in the middle of the 
floor with the picture of Thor and his hammer carved on the back. 
Whereas they saw nothing of Thormod. So they got down from the 
roof and went to the door. Then Thordis said. 
“There is still something left of thy heathenism, Grima, as Thor’s 
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