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Then too, when I would have left her, she drugged me with a witch-draught ay, she drugged me, and I woke to find myself false to my oath, false to Atli, and false to thee, Gudruda. I cursed her and I left her, waiting for the Earl, to tell him all. But Swanhild outwitted me. She told him that other tale of shame that ye have heard, and brought Koll to him as witness of the tale.
For a minute he watched them crackle and spit sparks, bending his brows as he deliberated how he should begin. Then he turned to Estein and said, "When I saw thee by the shore at Hernersfiord, now some two years gone, didst thou think then that Atli was a stranger?" "I thought so indeed," replied Estein, "though some words you let fall pointed otherwise."
There drank the great folk 'Mid the guileful one's silence, Drank wine in their fair hall: The Huns' wrath they feared When Knefrud cried In his cold voice, As he sat on the high seat, That man of the Southland: "Atli has sent me Riding swift on his errands On the bit-griping steed Through dark woodways unbeaten, To bid thee, King Gunnar, Come to his fair bench With helm well-adorned, To the house of King Atli.
"That is an ill saying, wife," said Atli. "Methinks thou dost foretell their doom." "Mayhap! And now I will add to my redes, for I foretell thy doom also: it is not yet, but it draws on." Then Atli bethought him of many wise saws, but spoke no more, for it seemed to him this was a strange bride that he had wed.
In another instant the Jemtlander would have suffered for his temerity, had not Atli seized the angry Norseman's arm, exclaiming, "Peace, Helgi Sigvaldson! Wouldst thou strike my servant in mine own house? The man loves not Norsemen, yet has he saved thy foster-brother's life, and likely, too, those of Ketill and all his company." "Tell us, Atli," interposed Estein, "what he said on his return."
Those who were about equal in the ball-game were matched together, and generally they had much fun in the autumn. Grettir went to the sports when he was fourteen years old at the request of his brother Atli. The parties were made up. Grettir was matched against Audun, the youth already mentioned, who was a few years the elder.
"Herein I see witch-work," said Gudruda. Then Hall told that Eric became Swanhild's love, but of the other tale which Swanhild had whispered to Atli he said nothing. For he knew that Gudruda would not believe this, and, moreover, if it were so, Swanhild had not sent the token which he should give. "It may well be," said Gudruda, proudly; "Swanhild is fair and light of mind.
So, and in no other wise, Has been paid a fitting price For that Atli, who of yore, Lay dead-slain anigh his door." Goodwife Asdis said that was true; "But I know not what rede thou art minded to take?" Grettir said that he would seek help of his friends and kin in the west; "But on thee shall no trouble fall for my sake," said he.
Now of a sudden Eric thought of his friend, Earl Atli, and his mind grew clear. "This may not be, Swanhild," he said. "Yet I would that I had loved thee from the first, and not the false Gudruda: for, with all thy dark ways, at least thou art better than she." "Thou speakest wisely, Eric," Swanhild answered, though she meant not that he should go.
Then said King Atli, "Have away the bondsman;" and so they did. But Gudrun called to her men, and came to Atli, and said "May it fare ill with thee now and from henceforth, even as thou hast ill held to thy word with me!"
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