Odin shall have his chance, for here I stay till dark, and then, if I live, I leave this land.

Go, get me all the gold that is mine from the hall, and bring it here to me by moonrise, and with it some garments and my armour.

Bring me also my best horse." "You leave this land ?" she said.

"That means that you leave me, who love you, to go forth as the Wanderer went--following a dream to the South.
Well, it is best that you should go, for whatever they have promised you but now, it is sure that the priests will kill you, even if you escape the vengeance of the god." And she looked askance at the shattered statue which had sat in its place for so many generations that none knew who had set it there, or when.
"I have killed the god," I answered, pointing to the crushed viper.
"Not quite, Olaf, for, see, its tail still moves." Then she went, leaving me alone.

I sat myself down by the murdered Steinar, and stared at him.