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in bursting up the door; but his foot slipped on the 
bloody bull’s-hide, and Arngrim stabbed him to the 
heart. His brother was then easily forced back into the 
seething water. 
The effusion composed by the Tumultuous One on 
the occasion of this exploit is also extant, and does 
not yield in poetical merit to those which I have 
already mentioned as having emanated from his 
victims. 
As soon as the pontiff Snorre heard of the result of 
Arngrim Styr’s stratagem, he came over and married 
the Lady Asdisa. Traces of the road made by the 
unhappy champions can yet be detected at Biar- 
narhaf, and tradition still identifies the grave of the 
Berserks. 
Connected with this same Pontiff Snorre is another 
of those mysterious notices of a great land in the 
western ocean which we find in the ancient chronicles, 
so interwoven with narrative we know to be true, as 
to make it impossible not to attach a certain amount 
of credit to them. This particular story is the more 
interesting as its denouement , abruptly left in the 
blankest mystery by one Saga, is incidentally revealed 
