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If you break the flier or the upright, your little old mother will be after you. A dead calm ensued. So Groa returned to the kitchen, and taking a loaf of pot-bread from the cupboard, cut a few slices and spread them with dripping. Now a scratching sound was heard at the door, and Arni entered. Good evening to all, said he with urbanity, as he set down the gun behind the kitchen door.
And they laid her in earth, but Asmund mourned her much. But, when all was over and done, the dream that he had dreamed lay heavy on him. Now of all diviners of dreams Groa was the most skilled, and when Gudruda had been in earth seven full days, Asmund went to Groa, though doubtfully, because of his oath. He came to the house and entered.
And I say this also: do not count overmuch on Björn thy son, for he has no loyal heart; and beware of Groa, who was thy housekeeper, for she loves not that Unna should take her place and more. And now I thank thee for many good things, and farewell." "Farewell, my son," said Asmund, "for in this hour thou seemest as a son to me."
Olaf was considered to have gained in renown by this feast. About Giermund and Thured, A.D. 978 When Giermund had stayed with Olaf three winters he wished to go away, and gave out that Thured and his daughter Groa should remain behind. This little maid was by then a year old, and Giermund would not leave behind any money for them. This the mother and daughter liked very ill, and told Olaf so.
Then he turned and gave it to Unna his wife, but before she drank he kissed her on the lips. Now while all men shouted such a welcome that the hall shook, and as Unna, smiling, drank from the cup, the eyes of Asmund fell upon Groa who stood beneath him, and lo! her eyes seemed to flame and her face was hideous as the face of a troll.
He went into Gothland, and, in order to frighten people out of his path, strode on clad in goats' skins, swathed in the motley hides of beasts, and grasping in his right hand a dreadful weapon, thus feigning the attire of a giant; when he met Groa herself riding with a very small escort of women on foot, and making her way, as it chanced, to the forest-pools to bathe, she thought it was her betrothed who had hastened to meet her, and was scared with feminine alarm at so strange a garb: so, flinging up the reins, and shaking terribly all over, she began in the song of her country, thus: "I see that a giant, hated of the king, has come, and darkens the highways with his stride.
"I swear it," he said. "And thou shalt swear that thou wilt not take the witchwoman Groa to wife, nor have anything to do with her, and this for thine own sake: for, if thou dost, she will be thy death. Dost thou swear?" "I swear it," he said. "It is well; but, husband, if thou dost break thine oath, either in the words or in the spirit of the words, evil shall overtake thee and all thy house.
Men laughed at this; but Groa, standing apart, frowned and muttered witch-words. "Why lookest thou so darkly, housekeeper?" said Asmund; "the boy is bonny and high of heart." "Ah, he is bonny as no child is, and he shall be bonny all his life-days. Nevertheless, she shall not stand against his ill luck.
I do but follow after," and thrice Groa shrieked aloud, throwing up her arms, then fell foaming on the sanded floor. "An evil woman and a fey!" said Asmund as he called people to her. "It had been better for me if I had never seen her dark face." Now it is to be told that Groa lay beside herself for ten full days, and Swanhild nursed her.
It measured two ells and a half from crossbar to point, and so bright was the broad blade that no one could look on it for long, and all down its length ran runes. "A wondrous weapon, truly!" said Asmund. "How read the runes?" "I know not, nor any man they are ancient." "Let me look at them," said Groa, "I am skilled in runes."
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