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These verses told also that Grettir had taken these bones out of the cave. But when the priest came to the church in the morning he found the staff, and what was with it, and read the runes; but Grettir had gone home to Sandhaugar.
But when the priest met Grettir he asked him closely as to what had happened: and Grettir told him all the story of his journey. And he added that the priest had not watched the rope faithfully. The priest said that that was true enough.
Men thought for certain that these monsters must have caused the loss of men there in the dale; and there was never any loss from hauntings or spirit-walkings there afterwards.
Grettir was thought to have caused a great purging of the land. The priest buried these bones in the churchyard.
D. Extracts from Bjarka Rímur
(Hrólfs saga Kraka og Bjarkarímur udgivne ved F. Jónsson, København, 1904)
58. Flestir ǫmuðu Hetti heldr,