"What hast thou to say about that?" he asks.
"That I will tell thee," she says.
He that giant's offspring[55] slayeth
Broke the new-field's bison stout,[56]
Thus the Gods, bell's warder[57] grieving.
Crushed the falcon of the strand;[58]
To the courser of the causeway[59]
Little good was Christ I ween,
When Thor shattered ships to pieces
Gylfi's hart[60] no God could help.
And again she sang another song—
Thangbrand's vessel from her moorings,
Sea-king's steed, Thor wrathful tore,
Shook and shattered all her timbers,
Hurled her broadside on the beach;
Ne'er again shall Viking's snow-shoe,[61]
On the briny billows glide,
For a storm by Thor awakened,
Dashed the bark to splinters small.
After that Thangbrand and Steinvora parted, and they fared west to Bardastrand.
CHAPTER XCIX.
OF GEST ODDLEIF'S SON.
Gest Oddleif's son dwelt at Hagi on Bardastrand, He was one of the wisest of men, so that he foresaw the fates and fortunes of men. He made a feast for Thangbrand and his men. They fared to Hagi with sixty men. Then it was said that there were two hundred heathen men to meet them, and that a Baresark was looked for to come thither, whose name was Otrygg, and all were afraid of him. Of him such great things as these were said, that he feared neither fire nor sword, and the heathen men were sore afraid at his coming. Then Thangbrand asked if men were willing to take the faith, but all the heathen men spoke against it.