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You do everything so well that we can well spare the cock, the goose, the pig, and the cow." Then Gudbrand opened the door. "Have I won the hundred dollars?" said he, and the neighbour was obliged to own that he had. One day he rode a-hunting, and sought long after a hart, but could not find one the whole day.
Here are two conditions between us to choose upon: either accept Christianity, or fight this very day, and the victory be to them to whom the God we worship gives it. "Then Dale Gudbrand stood up and said, 'We have sustained great damage upon our God; but since he will not help us, we will believe in the God whom thou believest in. "Then all received Christianity.
When the Bonders who were at the Thing saw it, they started up, and bowed themselves down before the ugly idol. Thereupon it was set down upon the Thing field; and on the one side of it sat the Bonders, and on the other the King and his people. "Then Dale Gudbrand stood up and said, 'Where now, king, is thy God?
No! if I have a sheep, I shall have both wool and clothing, and fresh meat in the house. Run out, child, and put up the sheep. 'But I haven't got the sheep any more than the rest', said Gudbrand; 'for when I had gone a bit farther, I swopped it away for a goose. 'Thank you! thank you! with all my heart', cried his wife; 'what should I do with a sheep?
How much less powerful are they therefore than the great God who rules over the whole universe, who makes the rain to fall and the sun shine!" "If, as you say, your God is so powerful, then let him send sunshine tomorrow and not rain as we have today," said Gudbrand.
The king then asked how their god was made, and Gudbrand answered that he was made in the image of Thor, that he had a hammer in his hand, was of large size and hollow inside, and that there was a platform made under him on which he stood when outside the temple. Olaf said, "I would very much like to see that god.
'But I've not got the pig either', said Gudbrand; 'for when I got a little farther on, I swopped it away for a milch goat. 'Bless us! cried his wife, 'how well you manage everything! Now I think it over, what should I do with a pig? People would only point at us and say, "Yonder they eat up all they have got." No! now I have got a goat, and I shall have milk and cheese, and keep the goat too.
No, if I have a sheep, I shall have both wool and clothing, and fresh meat in the house. Run out, child, and put up the sheep." "But I haven't the sheep any more than the rest," said Gudbrand, "for when I got a bit farther, I traded it away for a goose." "Thank you, thank you, with all my heart," cried his wife, "what should I do with a sheep?
"Good evening!" said the good wife. "Oh! is that you? Now, I am happy." Then the wife asked how things had gone with him in town. "Oh, only so-so," answered Gudbrand; "not much to brag of. When I got to town there was no one who would buy the cow, so you must know I traded it away for a horse." "For a horse," said his wife; "well that is good of you; thanks with all my heart.
'Oh! answered his neighbour, 'I hear what you say, but I don't believe it for all that. 'Shall we lay a bet upon it? asked Gudbrand on the Hill-side. 'I have a hundred dollars at the bottom of my chest at home; will you lay as many against them?
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