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sat there for a little while there came into the house a mickle troll-wife;
and whenas she came in, she swept up fast, and took the bones and all
things she deemed good to eat and cast them into her mouth. Then she
seized the man that lay next to her, and tore and slit him all asunder,
and cast him into the fire. Then awoke the others to an evil dream
forsooth, and leapt up. But she sent them to hell one after other, till
only one was left alive; and he rushed up the floor under the loft,
calling out for help if any were thereto in the loft who might be of avail
to him. Arnljot stretched out his hand for him, and caught him by the
shoulder and drew him up into the loft. Then she ran up to the fire
and fell to eating of the men, those who were roasted. Then stood
Arnljot up and gripped his bill, and thrust it between her shoulders so
that the point ran out through the chest. She turned her hard thereat
and cried out evilly and ran out. Arnljot lost the hold of the spear and
she had it away with her. Then Arnljot bestirred himself and cleared
out the bodies of the men, and set a door and door-posts before the hall,
for she had broken it all loose when she went out.
“And now they slept for what was left of the night. But when day
dawned, they stood up and first ate their day-meal; and when they
had eaten, Arnljot said: ‘Now shall we part here: ye shall follow this
sledge-road whereby the merchants fared hither yesterday; but I will
seek my spear. For my wages I shall take what I deem of money’s
worth among the chattels which these men owned. But thou, Thorod,
shalt bear my greeting to King Olaf, and tell him this, that he is the
man of all men I were fainest to meet, but he will deem my greeting
nothing worth.’
“Therewith he took up the silver dish and rubbed it with a cloth
and said: ‘Bring this dish to the king and say that it is my greeting.’
Thereafter either of them got ready for the journey and parted, even
as things were. And Thorod and his fellow, and the man withal out
of the company of the merchants who had escaped alive, went each his
own way, and Thorod went on until he met King Olaf in Chippingham
[Nidaros= Throndhjem], when he told him all about his journeys and
brought him the greeting of Arnljot, and handed over to him the silver
dish. The king says that it was ill that Arnljot should not have come
to see him, ‘and it is a great scathe that so good a fellow and a man
so noteworthy should have fallen into such evil ways.’”? (Chapter 151.)
This episode marks Arnljot’s first appearance in the Saga of Olaf the
Holy. He does not appear again until he comes to offer himself to the
King on the field of Stiklestad, as described in the Thirteenth Song
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