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amidst the lightning. But so deft was the alien.html">alien.html">alien, that he stood
lightly and easily, that it seemed as if he were dancing rather than
huge champion.html">champion would prevail. Now the red.html">red-haired fetched a mighty
left hand.html">hand and dealt a great stroke.html">stroke on the other's head.html">head, and the red-
alien smote him a left-handed stroke so that he fell full length on
and the folk were dumb-founded.
Then the alien threw himself on the sea-champion, and knelt upon him,
the man overthrown cried out: "Hold thine hand, for I am vanquished!
shall serve thee year-long, and follow thee wheresoever thou.html">thou.html">thou goest."
Therewith the alien champion arose and stood off from him, and the
could see that he was the Puny Fox.
Then the victorious champion unhelmed himself, and lo, it was
wrath.
Then cried out the Puny Fox: "I call on all men here to bear witness
come and go/go.html">go as he will in the Isle of Ransom, and to take help of any
how he will, taking me with him if so he will."
Said the chieftain: "Yea, this is right and due, and so shall it be.
abide in our hall.html">hall without eating of our meat, come up here,
since the Norns would not give us thine head for a gable-knop. But
hall wilt thou have him shown? Or wilt thou that he sit fasting in
the cheer of whipping and stripes, as befitteth a thrall to whom the
whether that be high or low, or the bench of thy prison-house. That
may be. For to-morrow I mean that we twain shall go under the earth-
shall be brothers in arms henceforward." Then Hallblithe did on his
bid him do the like, and he did so, and Hallblithe said: "Chieftain,
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