XV. Of Suits at the Althing 155 XVI. The Act of Distress 166 XVII. Rolf and Frodi fare abroad 175 XVIII. How those Two came into Thraldom 180 XIX. Now Men are Shipwrecked 192 XX. How Rolf won his Freedom 206 XXI. How Rolf won the Viking's Bow 230 XXII. Now Kiartan Returns 253 XXIII. Of the Coming of Earl Thorfinn 271 XXIV. Now Rolf and Grani Quarrel 279 XXV. Here Rolf comes to Cragness 295 XXVI. Of Grani's Pride 313 XXVII. Odd Doings at Cragness 335 XXVIII. Of that Harvest Feast 345 XXIX. Of the Trial of Grani's Pride 369 XXX. Of the Saying of those Two Words 385 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "It was Rolf in his weapons" _Frontispiece_ "'Now Einar dies if my father is hurt'" _Page_ 58 "So tall was she that the vikings could not board her" " 184 "There he sat as if he were still alive, but there was no sight in his eyes" " 224 "Grani took his sword and his shield, and they stood up to fight by the spring" " 405 THE STORY OF ROLF CHAPTER I OF THE LIGHTING OF THE BEACON In the time after Iceland had become Christian, and after the burning of Njal, but before the deaths of Snorri the Priest and Grettir the Outlaw, there lived at Cragness above Broadfirth a man named Hiarandi, called the Unlucky. And well was he so named, for he got a poor inheritance from his father, but he left a poorer to his son. Now the farm of Cragness was a fertile fell, standing above the land round about, and girt with crags. Below lay Broadfirth, great and wide, and Cragness jutted out into it, a danger to ships. It had no harbor, but a little cove among the rocks, where Hiarandi kept his boat; and many ships were wrecked on the headland, bringing fortune to the owners of Cragness, both in goods and firewood. And all the land about once belonged to the farm. Rich, therefore, would have been the dwellers at Cragness, but for the doings of Hiarandi's father.