off as to temper."

So Glum himself told her all about the bargain, and left nothing out,
and then he asked Hauskuld and Hrut whether he had repeated it right.
Hauskuld said he had; and then Hallgerda said--"Ye have dealt so well
with me in this matter, my father and Hrut, that I will do what ye
advise, and this bargain shall be struck as ye have settled it".

Then Hrut said--"Methinks it were best that Hauskuld and I should name
witnesses, and that Hallgerda should betroth herself, if the Lawman
thinks that right and lawful".

"Right and lawful it is," says Thorarin.

After that Hallgerda's goods were valued, and Glum was to lay down as
much against them, and they were to go shares, half and half, in the
whole. Then Glum bound himself to Hallgerda as his betrothed, and they
rode away home south; but Hauskuld was to keep the wedding-feast at his
house. And now all is quiet till men ride to the wedding.

CHAPTER XIV.

GLUM'S WEDDING.

Those brothers gathered together a great company, and they were all
picked men. They rode west to the dales and came to Hauskuldstede, and
there they found a great gathering to meet them. Hauskuld and Hrut, and
their friends, filled one bench, and the bridegroom the other. Hallgerda
sat upon the cross-bench on the dais, and behaved well. Thiostolf went
about with his axe raised in air, and no one seemed to know that he was
there, and so the wedding went off well. But when the feast was over,
Hallgerda went away south with Glum and his brothers. So when they came
south to Varmalek, Thorarin asked Hallgerda if she would undertake the
housekeeping, "No, I will not," she said. Hallgerda kept her temper down
that winter, and they liked her well enough. But when the spring came,
the brothers talked about their property, and Thorarin said--"I will
give up to you the house at Varmalek, for that is readiest to your hand,
and I will go down south to Laugarness and live there, but Engey we will
have both of us in common".

Glum was willing enough to do that. So Thorarin went down to the south
of that district, and Glum and his wife stayed behind there, and lived
in the house at Varmalek.

Now Hallgerda got a household about her; she was prodigal in giving, and
grasping in getting. In the summer she gave birth to a girl. Glum asked
her what name it was to have.

"She shall be called after my father's mother, and her name shall be
Thorgerda," for she came down from Sigurd Fafnir's-ba