He tried to recall the fugitives, and began to clamour that they were wrongfully afraid of a living man.

And when Erik saw him, he marvelled most at the aspect of his bloody face: the blood flowing forth and spurting over it.

For Aswid had come to life in the nights, and in his continual struggles had wrenched off his left ear; and there was to be seen the horrid sight of a raw and unhealed scar.

And when the bystanders bade him tell how he had got such a wound, he began to speak thus:-- "Why stand ye aghast, who see me colourless?
Surely every live man fades among the dead.

Evil to the lonely man, and burdensome to the single, remains every dwelling in the world.