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NOTES 149
ing of the wounds. But Thormod sat down out by the door. There
one man went out as another came in of them who were busy about
the wounded. Then one turned to Thormod, and looked on him and
said : ‘Why art thou so pale? Art thou wounded?” Then Thormod
sang this stave:
‘Nay, nowise am I ruddy,
But the slim white hawk-perch’ Skogul,
She hath a ruddy husband,
Of me, sore hurt, feww mind them.
Thou, wont unto the murder
Of Fenja’s meal: that maketh,
That with the deep spoor smart I
Of Day’s brunt and Dane-weapons,’
“Sithence Thormod stood up, and walked up to the fire, and stood
there for a while. Then spake the leech to him: ‘Thou, man, go out
and fetch me the billets which lie outside the door.’ He went out and
bore in an armful of billets, and threw them down on the floor. Then
the leech looked into the face of him, and said : ‘Wondrously pale is
this man, why art thou so?’ Then sang Thormod:
©The oak of the hawk-lands wondereth
Why we be pale: O woman!
The arrow drift I found me:
"Tis few grow fair by wounding.
Tt was the darksome metal,
Driven by main, flew through me;
The perilous sharp iron
Bit nigh the heart, so ween I,’
“Then said the leech: ‘Let me see thy wounds, that I may bind
them up.” Then Thormod sat down and cast the clothes from him.
And when the leech saw his wounds, she searched about the wound he
had in his side, and she found that iron stood therein, though she knew
not for sure whither the iron had turned. She had made there ina stone
kettle a mess of leeks and other herbs, and sodden that together, and
she gave it to the wounded to eat, and tried in that manner whether
they had hollow wounds ; whereas she kenned it from the leek smell-
ing out through the wound which was in the hollow body. She bore
this to Thormod and bade him eat. He answered: ‘Take it away ; I
am not sick for grout.’ Then she took a gripping tongs, and would
draw out the iron ; but it was fast, and stirred nowhither ; and it stood
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