102 DANIEL BRUUN. 
pieture is carved on the back of thy chair.” Grima answered: “It is 
seldom | can go to church to hear learned men preach as it is such a 
long way; and my having so few people at home. 
Now when I look at Thor’s picture I often come to think that I can 
break it into pieces and burn it whenever I please. How much greater 
He must be, who has made heaven and earth, and all things visible, and 
who has given life to both visible and invisible things, and whom no 
one can vanquish.” 
Thordis answered: “Possibly thou thinkest thus, but [ would sooner 
believe, that we would force thee to tell the truth if Thorkel were not 
present with all his people, as I have a foreboding that thou art not 
wholly ignorant of Thormod’s resort.” 
Grima answered: i 
“Here the proverb may be applied, that he who guesses, guesses wrong,” 
also another: “That always something is ready to save them who are 
not to die early; but thou oughtest to thank “God” that he has protected 
thee, so that the devil has not had the power to make thee do bad 
deeds, such as thou mightest have a liking for, it can be excused that 
sometimes when guessing a person misses the truth, but not, on the 
other hand, when one has heard the truth and will not believe it.” 
After this conversation they parted. 
Thorkel went to Brattahlid and Thordis went home. Skuf and 
Biarni went secretly to Grima and Gamli, brought them the necessary 
things, they were in want of, and refunded them all the expenses they 
ha | concerning Thormod. 
About Thormod. 
“When Thormod was completely cured of the wound Falgeir had 
given him, Skuf and Biarni took him home to Stokkaness with them 
and kept him hidden in an out-house. There Thormod remained the 
third winter. During this time Biarni and Skuf sold the farm Stokkaness 
and other estates which they owned, likewise their cattle, as they intended 
leaving Greenland. Early in the spring they equipped their ship and 
drew it out into the sea. Then Thormod felt inclined to take a trip. 
He pretended to have an errand northwards in the fiord, and procured 
himself a boat. Fool Egil went with him; he took the oars and Thormod 
the rudder.” E 
Thormod’s thirst for revenge drove him, before leaving at the last 
moment to try and kill Thorgrim Trolle’s sister’s sons. He wished 
to be able to come before King Olaf after having also persecuted 
them. 
Fool-Egil and Thormod therefore rowed in the direetion of Lön- 
guness in quiet, beautiful sunny weather. 
Thormod suddenly began to rock the boat, so that it, at last, upset. 
