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Even beavers have found a refuge in its streams." "Are there dangerous beasts of prey in these mountains?" asks Gunnar while the train puffs and rolls heavily up a dark valley. "Yes; the grizzly bear is the largest of them. He is not so particularly dangerous, and at any rate is better than his reputation.
But Gunnar answered her nothing and rode quickly away. Rannveig went back to the sitting-room, where many men were talking, and, looking at them, she said: 'Loud is your talk, but the bill sang louder when Gunnar rode away. When Kolskegg heard that, he saddled his horse and hasted after Gunnar.
Then Njal fixed a hundred ounces of silver, and Gunnar laid it down before him. 'Hallgerda does not let our servants die of old age, said Skarphedinn, as they rode home from the Thing. Now the words came true, that Gunnar had spoken, and 'blow for blow' grew to be the rule between Hallgerda and Bergthora; but for all that there was no quarrel between Njal and Gunnar.
They rode west to Hawkdale Pass, and so on, as the road lay west to Ness: there they bought much stockfish, and loaded seven horses therewith, and turned homeward when they were ready. <i>The Onset on Atli at the Pass and the Slaying of Gunnar and Thorgeir</i>.
Odin and Gunnar scrambled ashore. Piper pushed the boat back into the river and was gone. Three thin sickles of moons were cleaving their way across the sky. A few unfamiliar stars were out. There was enough light now for them to see Maya's tomb not far away. It seemed to be fashioned of moonbeams.
Gudrun tries at first to reconcile the combatants, but, failing, arms herself and fights on the side of her brothers. The battle rages furiously with great loss on both sides, until nearly all of the Nibelungs are killed, when Gunnar and Hogni are forced to yield to the power of numbers and are captured and bound. Gunnar is asked, if he will purchase his life with the treasure.
"We hurried you back to the ship. And all this time, while Ato steered us back into space, the Kalis and I for that is what I have decided to call them have been working over you. You might say that we are master electronicians, rebuilding circuits, repairing transistors and condensers " "You were plenty rough," Gunnar grumbled. "We had to be.
There were with him then Thorbiorn the Tardy, and Gunnar and Thorgeir, Thorir's sons, and Thorod Drapa-Stump. Now when they came thereto, Thorbiorn called on his men to go between them. But the others were by then so eager that they could do nought.
Here at first he was full of Brynhildr, and all for going back to fetch his lovely bride from the lone fell. But Grimhildr was given to dark arts; she longed for the brave Volsung for her own daughter, she brewed him the philtre of forgetfulness, he drained it off, forgot Brynhildr, swore a brother's friendship with Gunnar and Hogni, and wedded the fair Gudrun.
'It beseems a man to eat what is before him and not to trouble himself further, answered Hallgerda; but Gunnar cried out: 'I will have no part in food that is ill come by, and with that he gave her a buffet on the cheek. 'I shall remember that, said Hallgerda, and she got up and went out.
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