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lad went about with him, and led him. They walked out a-doors about
the stead seeking harbour, and came to that same void house, the door
whereof was so low that one had nearly to creep in through it. And
when the blind man came inside the house, he groped about on the
floor, to find whether he might lay him down. He had a hat on his
head, and the hat fell forward over his face, when he bent down. He
found that before his hand there was a pool on the floor, and therewith
he lifted the wet hand and set the hat right again, and therewith the
wet fingers came up against his eyes. And forthwith fell so great itch-
ing on his eyelids, that he stroked the wet fingers across his very eyes.
Then he betook himself out of the house again, saying there was
no lying therein, for it was all wet. And when he came out of the
house, he saw forthwith, first his two hands one from the other, and
then all such things as were near enough for him to see in spite of night-
mirk. He went home forthwith to the stead and into the guest-cham-
ber, and there told all folk that he had got his sight, and that now he
was a seeing man. But that wotted many men, that he had been long
blind, for he had been there before, going about from house to house.
He said that he had got his sight first when he came out of a certain
house, little and wretched, ‘and all was wet therewithin,’ says he, ‘and
I groped thereinto with my hands, and I rubbed my eyes with my wet
hands.’ He told also where the house stood.
“But the men within there, when they heard these tidings, won-
dered greatly at this hap, and spoke between themselves what there
could be within that house. But goodman Thorgils and his son Grim
deemed they knew whence this hap would have come, and were in
great dread lest the unfriends of the king should go and ransack the
house. Then they stole away, and went to the house and took the
body, and flitted it away and into the meadow, and hid it there, and
then fared back to the stead and slept through that night.” (Chapter
349-)
“’Thorgils Halmason and Grim, the father and son, had in their keep-
ing the body of King Olaf, and were much mind-sick herein, to wit,
how they might so heed it, that the unfriends of the king should not
mishandle the body; for they heard the bonders say as muchas that the
thing to be done, if the body of the king should be found, would be, to
burn it or to take it out to sea and sink it in the deep.
“The father and son had seen in the night as it were a candle-light
burning over the spot where the body of King Olaf lay amidst of the
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