[The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by Unknown]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Death of Cormac the Skald CHAPTER FIFTEEN 6/7
Thorleif turned back to meet them, and they all went home together. After that Bersi went to find Steinvor, and mounted his horse.
He came home before men were out of bed.
They asked him about his journey and he told them.
When Odd met him he asked about the fight and how it had passed, and Bersi answered in this verse:-- (45) "There was one fed the wolves has encountered His weird in the dale of the Bowstring-- Thorarin the Strong, 'neath the slayer Lay slain by the might of my weapon. And loss of their lives men abided When Loft fell, and Alf fell, and Skofti. They were four, yonder kinsmen, and fated-- They were fey--and I met them, alone!" After that Odd went home, but Steinvor was with Bersi, though it misliked Thordis, his wife.
By this time his stone wall was some-what broken down, but he had it built up again; and it is said that no blood-money was ever paid for Thorarin and his sons.
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