Now the hair of this Sigurd was golden-red of hue, fair of
fashion, and falling down in great locks; thick and short was his
beard, and of no other colour, high-nosed he was, broad and high-
boned of face; so keen were his eyes, that few durst gaze up
under the brows of him; his shoulders were as broad to look on as
the shoulders of two; most duly was his body fashioned betwixt
height and breadth, and in such wise as was seemliest; and this
is the sign told of his height, that when he was girt with his
sword Gram, which same was seven spans long, as he went through
the full-grown rye-fields, the dew-shoe of the said sword smote
the ears of the standing corn; and, for all that, ;~greater was
his strength than his growth: well could he wield sword, and cast
forth spear, shoot shaft, and hold shield, bend bow, back horse,
and do all the goodly deeds that he learned in his youth's days.
Wise he was to know things yet undone; and the voice of all fowls
he knew, wherefore few things fell on him unawares.
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