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Now we that come of the God-kin of her redes for ourselves we wot, But her will with the lives of men-folk and their ending know we not. So therefore I bid thee not fear for thyself of Doom and her deed, But for me: and I bid thee hearken to the helping of my need. Or else Art thou happy in life, or lusteth thou to die In the flower of thy days, when thy glory and thy longing bloom on high?"
Ah, wise he were, if he did after your redes, and bethought him of his own weal; 'for where wolf's ears are, wolf's teeth are near." Then cried the fifth: "Yea, yea, not so wise is he as I deem him, if he spareth him, whose brother he hath slain already." At last spake the sixth: "Handy and good rede to slay him, and be lord of the treasure!"
"You're lying." "But I don't know." Copper wailed. "I'm only guessing. I've never seen this place before in my life! Please! let's get out of here!" "Then you know about this," Kennon demanded. "I think it's the Pit," Copper said. "The redes don't say where it is. But the description fits the Circle of Death, the Twisted Land it's all like the redes say." "Redes? what are redes?
"Well mightest thou, methinks, have full freedom as to thine own redes," said Grettir, "and my faring I will not have laid under the choice of other folk; and I shall mislike it if thou easiest me aside from thy fellowship." Now either went their way, and Bardi said he should let Grettir know for sure if Thorarin would that he should fare with him, but that otherwise he might sit quiet at home.
"Can't you guess?" She shook her head. "I have seen nothing but you reading this ancient book, yet you turn to me with the look in your eyes that the redes say Ulf had for Lyssa." "You're human!" Copper shrugged. "You're mad. I'm a Lani. I was born a Lani and I shall die one." "Don't you understand? All Lani are human.
The passenger can sit upright in them; but as they are very heavy, people travelling to any distance into the country use hammocks, or as the natives call them redes, made of fine network, and also slung on a single pole and borne by two men.
So he deemed that all was as well as it might be with the Bride, and with a good heart fell to taking counsel with the others; and kindly and friendly were the redes which they held there, with no gainsaying of man by man, for the whole folk was glad at heart.
Sigurd spake now, "Sure no wiser woman than thou art one may be found in the wide world; yea, yea, teach me more yet of thy wisdom!" She answers, "Seemly is it that I do according to thy will, and show thee forth more redes of great avail, for thy prayer's sake and thy wisdom;" and she spake withal
Yet through it all, even through the redes that described the Conquest, there was a curious remoteness, a lack of emotion that made the verses more terrible as they flowed in passionless rhythm from Copper's lips. "That's enough!" Kennon said. "I told you you wouldn't like it." "It's horrible. How can you remember such things?" "We begin to learn them as soon as we can talk.
Thorhall rode each summer to the Thing, and good horses he had. But one summer at the Althing, Thorhall went to the booth of Skapti Thorodson the Lawman. Skapti was the wisest of men, and wholesome were his redes when folk prayed him for them.
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