Then said King Atli, "A marvellous thing how many men have gone
their ways before him! Cut the heart from out of him, and let
that be his bane!"
Hogni said, "Do according to thy will; merrily will I abide
whatso thou writ do against me; and thou shalt see that my heart
is not adrad, for hard matters have I made trial of ere now, and
all things that may try a man was I fain to bear, whiles yet I
was unhurt; but now sorely am I hurt, and thou alone henceforth
will bear mastery in our dealings together."
Then spake a counsellor of King Atli, "Better rede I see thereto;
take we the thrall Hjalli, and give respite to Hogni; for this
thrall is made to die, since the longer he lives the less worth
shall he be."
The thrall hearkened, and cried out aloft, and fled away
anywhither where he might hope for shelter, crying out that a
hard portion was his because of their strife and wild doings, and
an ill day for him whereon he must be dragged to death from his
sweet life and his swine-keeping.
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