Come, we will follow them home.
The new God in Gimle, the terrible, who took all,
Let him also take revenge, for he understands it!
Drive slowly: Thus drove Ejnar ever;
--Soon enough shall we reach home."
It was also to the "Heimskringla" that Bjornson turned for
the subject of his epic cycle, "Arnljot Gelline." Here we
read in various rhythms of Arnljot the outlaw, how the hands
of all men are against him; how he offers to stay his wrath
and end the blood feud if the fair Ingigerd, Trand's daughter,
may be bestowed upon him; how, being refused, he sets fire
to Trand's house and bears Ingigerd away captive; how her
tears prevail upon him to release her, and how she seeks
refuge in a southern cloister; how Arnljot wanders restless
over sea and land until he comes to King Olaf, on the eve
of the great battle, receives the Christian faith, fights
fiercely in the vanguard against the hosts of the heathen,
and, smiling, falls with his king on the field of Stiklestad.
One song from this cycle, "The Cloister in the South" is
here reproduced in an exact copy of the original metre, in
the hope that even this imperfect representation of the poem
may be better than none at all.
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