"
Then answered Granmar, "In nowise knowest thou how to speak
seemly things, and to tell of matters remembered from of old,
whereas thou layest lies on chiefs and lords; most like it is
that thou must have long been nourished with wolf-meat abroad in
the wild-woods, and has slain thy brethren; and a marvel it is to
behold that thou darest to join thyself to the company of good
men and true, thou, who hast sucked the blood of many a cold
corpse."
Sinfjotli answered, "Dim belike is grown thy memory now, of how
thou wert a witch-wife on Varinsey, and wouldst fain have a man
to thee, and chose me to that same office of all the world; and
how thereafter thou wert a Valkyria (1) in Asgarth, and it well-
nigh came to this, that for thy sweet sake should all men fight;
and nine wolf whelps I begat on thy body in Lowness, and was the
father to them all."
Granmar answers, "Great skill of lying hast thou; yet belike the
father of naught at all mayst thou be, since thou wert gelded by
the giant's daughters of Thrasness; and lo thou art the stepson
of King Siggeir, and were wont to lie abroad in wilds and woods
with the kin of wolves; and unlucky was the hand wherewith thou
slewest thy brethren making for thyself an exceeding evil name.
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