But he did not. It was daylight when I woke, and the first ray of the sun came straight into the narrow doorway and woke me. And it waked Harek also. Kolgrim sat yet in the door with his sword across his knees.
"Ho, scald!" I said, "you have had a great sleep."
"Ay, and a bad dream also," he answered, "if dream it was."
For now he saw before us the burnt-out fire, and the slain, and the strangely-trampled circle of the dance.
"No dream, therefore," he said. "Is it true that I was made to dance round yon fire till I was nigh dead?"
"True enough. I danced also in turn," I said.
And then I told him how things had gone after his fall.
"Kolgrim has fought, therefore, a matter of fifty trolls," I said; "which is more than most folk can say for themselves."
Whereat he growled from the doo
