Now two of these were pitchy of hue, while the third seemed to have whitish scales, and was hung somewhat higher than the others.

This last had a fastening on its tail, while the others were held by a cord round their bellies.
Roller thought the affair looked like magic, but was silent on what he had seen, that he might not be thought to charge his mother with sorcery.

For he did not know that the snakes were naturally harmless, or how much strength was being brewed for that meal.

Then Ragnar and Erik came up, and, when they saw the smoke issuing from the cottage, entered and went to sit at meat.

When they were at table, and Kraka's son and stepson were about to eat together, she put before them a small dish containing a piebald mess, part looking pitchy, but spotted with specks of yellow, while part was whitish: the pottage having taken a different hue answering to the different appearance of the snakes.