110 DANIEL BRUUN. 
With naught, a loving wife 
him enliven could; 
through love to another one, 
for hers he was dull. 
Each even and each morn 
stood Katla in his mind.” 
Thorun in the mean time inflamed him to wreak vengeance upon 
her first husband’s slayers, and Helgi equipped a ship and went to the 
western settlement, from there to go further northwards: 
“He thirty men chose 
to thıs warrior march 
with armour, helm and weapons 
he furnished them well. 
Towards north to Greipar drew 
this bold seamen flock. 
Soon wind the sail distended 
soon the use of oars is tried. 
Wild is that sea — and the way long.” 
The outlaws had lived: 
“towards north on Greipar’s coast,” 
and here Helgi attacked them in their residence. It was a hard fight; 
but it ended with his vanquishing them, after which he returned to 
Heriolisnes: 
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“with goods and glory.’ 
Helgi’s reputation now grew on account of this achievement: 
“To law-speaker folk him chose; 
he adjusted the lands law, 
as no one else was thought 
able thereunto but he.” 
3ut in spite of glory and honour his heart was heavy and sorrowful, 
as he still longed for the beloved one of his youth. When he went about 
in the settlement he wrapped himself in a fur coat, which Katla had 
given him; thereby “he revived his grief,” and when at last the coat was 
worn old and useless, he spread it over his couch. 
Thorkatla lived, in the mean time, in quiet grief on the farm Sau- 
