"There are times when I have to ask them which of my own doings they are singing about now.

But is there no wonder in the tale ?" So I told him just how the matter was.

And when he heard of the noise, and the stroke with which the ships were smitten, he said, looking troubled, as I thought: "Sigurd is stronger now that he is dead than when he lived.

We felt that stroke even here." But when I told how I had seen the dead jarl, his face grew thoughtful, and at last he said: "So shall I lie some day in a grave mound.

It is passing strange to think on.