give me passage
Wart Giddle
at the river crossing
So I took out my axe
and killed him.
Then his brother
Thord Herjolfson
Who is the son of
Herjolf Kollson
Who was the brother
of Hallgerd who
Was married to
Hoskuld the Fat
Took umbrage. He had
many thralls and
Neighbors who owned
lots of pigs.”
“And horses!” I shouted. “Don’t forget the horses! And the sheep!”
“And lots of horses
and sheep too.
One horse was called
Red-foot Swiftsure
And she was . . .”
Well, this went on for some time, since Hrundig took care to specify by name all the offspring he sired on Fat Hoskuld’s mares and ewes and sows until the saints started wailing that Hrundig was stalling and so Hrundig veered back on to his other sins: