They looked carefully round the place, and found Glam lying a short distance off, quite dead.

He was black in colour, and swollen up as big as an ox.

They were horrified at the sight, and shuddered in their hearts.

However, they tried to carry him to the church, but could get him no further than to the edge of a cleft, a little lower down; so they left him there and went home and told their master what had happened.
"Thorhall asked them what had been the cause of Glam's death.

They said that they had traced footprints as large as though the bottom of a cask had been set down in the snow leading from where the trampled place was up to the cliffs at the head of the valley, and all along the track there were huge blood-stains.