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"There," said the boy, "I'll take that, and sell it to the Norse bonder's wife up in the house above there." "Who are you, then?" said Lucy. "I'm a Lapp. We live on the hills, where the Norseman has not driven us away, and the reindeer find their grass in summer and their moss in winter." "Oh! have you got reindeer? I should so like to see them and to drive in a sledge!"
Men lay down to sleep in the evening, but in the night they heard a huge crashing about the bonder's bed; none durst arise and see thereto, for very few folk were there. In the morning the goodwife came home, but the goodman was gone, and none knew what had become of him.
The bonder said it was no boon to see him, for he was unlike any shape of man; "but good methinks is every hour that thou art here." Now the day goes by, and when men should go to sleep Grettir would not put off his clothes, but lay down on the seat over against the bonder's lock-bed.
But when spring came, and the sun-light was the greatest, somewhat the hauntings abated; and now would Thorhall go back to his own land; he had no easy task in getting servants, nathless he set up house again at Thorhall-stead; but all went the same way as before; for when autumn came, the hauntings began to wax again; the bonder's daughter was most set on, and fared so that she died thereof.
Grettir said he would not be the first to raise strife with any man, and so much the less as the bonder's will was such. A little after came those foster-brothers home; things went not merrily betwixt Thorgeir and Grettir, but Thormod bore himself well.
When the shield-shower is all done, With the conquered carles and lords, Men bide not to measure swords: Many a man had there been glad, Lesser war-gear to have had. With a heart more void of fear; Such I am not, sweet and dear." Therewithal he swept her up into the bed, but the bonder's daughter ran out of the place; then sang Grettir this other stave
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