"West, to England," says Soti, "and never to come back again to
Norway while Gunnhillda's rule is in Norway."
Augmund went away, and goes and finds Gunnhillda, for she was a little way off, at a feast, and Gudred, her son, with her. Augmund told Gunnhillda what Soti meant to do, and she begged Gudred to take his life. So Gudred set off at once, and came unawares on Soti, and made them lead him up the country, and hang him there. But the goods he took, and brought them to his mother, and she got men to carry them all down to the King's Crag, and after that she went thither herself.
Hrut came back towards autumn, and had gotten great store of goods. He went at once to the king, and had a hearty welcome. He begged them to take whatever they pleased of his goods, and the king took a third. Gunnhillda told Hrut how she had got hold of the inheritance, and had Soti slain. He thanked her, and gave her half of all he had.
ENDNOTES:
(1) Oresound, the gut between Denmark and Sweden, at the entrance of the Baltic, commonly called in English, the Sound.
6. HRUT SAILS OUT TO ICELAND
Hrut stayed with the king that winter in good cheer, but when spring came he grew very silent. Gunnhillda finds that out, and said to him when they two were alone together, "Art thou sick at heart?"
"So it is," said Hrut, "as the saying runs — `Ill goes it with those who are born on a barren land.'"
"Wilt thou to Iceland?" she asks.
"Yes," he answered.