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Updated: June 14, 2025
"To-morrow I will send a messenger to Middalhof, saying to Asmund the Priest that I purpose to visit him at the time of the Yule-feast; then I shall see if the girl pleases me. Meanwhile, Koll, take thou a seat among the thralls, and here is something for thy pains," and he took off the purple cloak and threw it to him. "Thanks to thee, Gold-scatterer," said Koll.
All evil things. Thou art outlawed, Eric, at the suit of Swanhild for the slaying of Atli the Earl. Swanhild sits here in Coldback, for she hath seized thy lands. Saevuna, thy mother, died two days ago in the hall of Middalhof, whither she went to speak with Gudruda." "Gudruda! what of Gudruda?" cried Eric. "This, Brighteyes: to-day she weds Ospakar Blacktooth."
"Dead is Ospakar! slain by the swordless man! Eric Brighteyes hath slain Ospakar Blacktooth!" Then there went up such a shout as never was heard in the hall of Middalhof. Now when Gudruda knew that Ospakar was sped, she looked at Eric as he rested, leaning on his sword, and her heart was filled with awe and love. She sprang from her seat, and, coming to where Brighteyes stood, she greeted him.
But let not this suckling cross my desire, lest men call him Eric Holloweyes!" Now the messenger of Ospakar came to Middalhof, and his words pleased Asmund and he made ready a great feast. And Swanhild smiled, but Gudruda was afraid. Now Ospakar rode up to Middalhof on the day before the Yule-feast.
Then he gathered a great force of men and rode south to Coldback, to the slaying of Eric, and with him went Swanhild. Gudruda sat alone in the haunted hall of Middalhof and brooded on her love and on her fate. Eric, too, sat in Mosfell cave and brooded on his evil chance. His heart was sick with sorrow, and there was little that he could do except think about the past.
"It shall be as thou wilt, son; to-morrow we will send to Unna and bid her here, if it pleases her to come." Now Ospakar stayed three more days at Middalhof, till his horses were found, and he was fit to travel, for Eric had shaken him sorely. But he had no words with Gudruda and few with Asmund. Still, he saw Swanhild, and she bid him to be of good cheer, for he should yet have Gudruda.
"'Gudruda, I name her: for, as Gudruda here is the fairest of all women, so is this the fairest of all war-dragons." "So be it," said Asmund. Then they rode back to Middalhof, and now Eric Brighteyes let it be known that he needed men to sail the seas with him.
So Jon was bound, and there in the booth he sat two days before anyone came to loose him. "Whither away?" said Gizur to Swanhild. "To Middalhof first," Swanhild answered. Now Eric and Gudruda sat silent in the high seat of the hall at Middalhof till they heard Skallagrim enter by the women's door. Then they came down from the high seat, and stood hand in hand by the fire on the hearth.
Eric covered his face with his hand. Presently he lifted it. "Thou art rich in evil tidings, nurse, though, it would seem, poor in all besides. Tell me at what hour is the wedding-feast?" "An hour after noon, Eric; but now Swanhild has ridden thither with her company." "Then room must be found at Middalhof for one more guest," said Eric, and laughed aloud.
Thus, then, did Asmund the Priest wed Unna, Thorod's daughter, and this was the end of the feasting. Thereafter Björn, Asmund's son, ruled at Middalhof, and was Priest in his place. He sought for Koll the Half-witted to kill him, but Koll took the fells, and after many months he found passage in a ship that was bound for Scotland. Now Björn was a hard man and a greedy.
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