was getting dark,
but this time he did not come. The people went to church as usual, but
they thought matters looked very much as they did on the last occasion.
The bondi wanted them to go out and search for the shepherd, but the
churchgoers cried off, and said they were not going to trust themselves
into the power of trolls in the night; the bondi would not venture out
and there was no search. On Yule day after their meal they went out to
look for the shepherd, and first went to Glam's cairn, feeling sure
that the shepherd's disappearance must be due to him. On approaching the
cairn they saw an awful sight; there was the shepherd, his neck broken,
and every bone in his body torn from its place. They carried him to the
church and no one was molested by Thorgaut.

Glam became more rampageous than ever. He was so riotous that at last
everybody fled from Thorhallsstad, excepting the bondi and his wife.

Thorhall's cowherd had been a long time in his service and he had become
attached to him; for this reason and because he was a careful herdsman
he did not want to part with him. The man was very old and thought it
would be very troublesome to have to leave; he saw, too, that everything
the bondi possessed would be ruined if he did not stay to look after
them. One morning after midwinter the mistress went to the cow-house to
milk the cows as usual. It was then full day, for no one would venture
out of doors till then, except the cowherd, who went directly it
was light. She heard a great crash in the cow-house and tremendous
bellowing. She rushed in, shouting that something awful, she knew not
what, was going on in the cow-house. The bondi went out and found the
cattle all goring each other. It seemed not canny there, so he went into
the shed and there saw the cowherd lying on his back with his head in
one stall and his feet in the other.

He went up and felt him, but saw at once that he was dead with his back
broken. It had been broken over the flat stone which separated the two
stalls. Evidently it was not safe to remain any longer on his estate,
so he fled with everything that he could carry away. All the live-stock
which he left behind was killed by Glam. After that Glam went right up
the valley and raided every farm as far as Tunga, while Thorhall stayed
with his friends during the rest of the winter. No one could venture
up the valley with a horse or a dog, for it was killed at once. As the
spring went on and the sun