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She went up to her father and put her hand on his shoulder. There was a short silence but not enough time for her to collect her thoughts. Indeed, she had no thoughts. "Gudrid," said Thorbeorn, "we think it is time for you to be settled, and have here an honourable man who has asked for you. He is our friend, Thore Easterling. He is well-descended and of good estimation with our host.
Thore was very good to her, as he had promised, but he had to be obeyed. Directly he saw the token which she wore, he wanted to know about it. "What is that which you wear round your neck? It looks to be gold." She said it was a token. "A token! And what kind of a token?" She said she had had it when she was a child. "Let me look at it," said he. He held it near to the light.
He had been known in his younger days as a lively but quick-tempered man; in his old age, through much adversity, he had become irritable and suspicious. Thore and his son came and went many times before Ole could make his way to them; they both knew that he did not come for any good purpose, therefore it was all the more comical that he never got there.
Here Halfdan, when he saw the line of his men wavering, climbed with Thore up a crag covered with stones and, uprooting boulders, rolled them down upon the enemy below; and the weight of these as they fell crushed the line that was drawn up in the lower position. Thus he regained with stones the victory which he had lost with arms.
And she was happy enough to be sorry for Thorstan, who followed her about with a dog's patient eyes, and evidently worshipped her shadow. He told her that he went down to Heriolfsness when he heard that she was promised to Thore. When there he had gone to see Thorberg. What did she tell him? Gudrid wanted to know; but he wouldn't answer.
"Here are singular strangers coming up to the house; oh dear! look out!" Both men turned to the window, and Oyvind was the first to exclaim: "It is the school-master, and yes, I almost believe why, certainly it is he!" "Yes, it is old Ole Nordistuen," said Thore, moving away from the window that he might not be seen; for the two were already near the door.
"I tell Thore here that if my Leif had been at home there's no saying what might have happened but as it is, he's the lucky one. He will have a sweet wife, and owe it to us that she is as happy as she is good." She gave him a swift and searching look, a flash of gratitude in it for his humanity, but resumed her searching of the floor.
"If Thore goes, I shall go myself," Thorstan said after a pause. Gudrid looked up, but said nothing. "He is not a lucky man that is to be seen," Thorstan said then. "And he has no great knowledge of the sea, and is moreover infirm. It would come to this, that he would hurt himself, and you would have the care of him as you did upon the rock out beyond the head." She answered him gravely.
"I shall tell him you asked me," he said. That made her sorry she had asked, but she did not like to say tell him by all means, nor beg him not to tell. It turned out that Thorwald did tell him. Freydis said, "If you must marry, that is the man you should choose. Not a half-skald like my brother Thorstan, nor a pranking pie like Thorwald. You will have a master in Thore, and most women like that.
"So would Thorstan, our brother, if he could get her," said Thorwald. "But he cannot get her," Leif said, and then Thorwald, "He won't move from her until he does get her." Leif said: "He will go if Thore takes her out with you. But never mind all that. You will need a stock of cattle if you are for settling, and a strong body of men.
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