"Aroint thee, foul witch!" cried Thord. They should see, said
he, that Helga would turn out fine. But Cormac answered, "Said
it may be, for sooth it may be: I will never think of her."

"Woe to us, then," said Thorgils, "for listening to the words of
yon fiend, and slighting this offer!"

Then spoke Cormac, "I bid thee, Bersi, to the holmgang within
half a month, at Leidholm, in Middal."

Bersi said he would come, but Cormac should be the worse for his
choice.

After this Cormac went about the steading to look for Steingerd.
When he found her he said she had betrayed him in marrying
another man.

"It was thou that made the first breach, Cormac," said she, "for
this was none of my doing."

Then said he in verse: --

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"Thou sayest my faith has been forfeit,
O fair in thy glittering raiment;
But I wearied my steed and outwore it,
And for what but the love that bare thee?
O fainer by far was I, lady,
To founder my horse in the hunting --