In this hall fires were kindled every evening, as was the custom, and folk sat round these fires for a long while before they went to supper.

On that evening on which the funeral party came home, while the folk at Froda were sitting round the fires, they saw a half-moon appear on the panelling of the hall, and it was visible to all those who were present.

It went round the room backwards and against the sun's course, nor did it disappear so long as they sat by the fires.
Thorodd asked Thorir Wooden-leg what this might portend.

"It is the Moon of Fate," said Thorir, "and deaths will come after it." This went on all that week that the Fate-Moon came in every evening.
The next tidings that happened at Froda were that the shepherd came in and was very silent; he spoke little, and that in a frenzied manner.
Folk were most inclined to believe that he had been bewitched, because he went about by himself, and talked to himself.

This went on for some time, but one evening, when two weeks of winter had passed, the shepherd came home, went to his bed, and lay down there.