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Updated: May 4, 2025
They passed into the shadow of a storehouse, and Alwin dived into, the recess under the steps and began to fumble for something hidden there. When he drew out a pair of skees and proceeded to put them on, Sigurd burst forth with increased vehemence. "Alwin, I implore you to heed my advice. My mind tells me that nothing but evil can come of meddling with Skroppa.
But then, he has behaved very strangely to me ever since he talked with Skroppa in Iceland, two seasons ago." "He spoke to me of Skroppa the first time I saw him," Alwin said, absently. Then a flicker of curiosity awoke in him. "I wish that you would tell me what 'Skroppa' stands for. I do not know whether it is man or beast or demon."
Even out there in the open, Helga glanced about for listeners before she answered. "Skroppa is a fore-knowing woman, who lives among the unsettled places north of here, in a cabin down in a hollow. Though Leif will not admit it, it was she who took the curse off Eric's sword." It seemed to Alwin that here at last was an opening.
Think of it, comrades; he is driven to ask help of Skroppa, he who feigns to scowl at her very name! he who would have us believe in a god that he does not trust in himself! Here is an unheard-of two-facedness! Never was such a fraud since Loki. Here is merriment for all!"
Alwin made a quick step forward to where the firelight revealed him to all in the room, and cried out hoarsely: "Here is falsehood! My hand, and no other, took Leif Ericsson's knife to the den of Skroppa the Witch." Motion and sound stopped for a moment, as though the icy blast, that came just then through the opening door, had frozen all the life in the room.
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