On either side of the rock juts out a sheer ridge, thick with divers trees, which screen the river from distant view.

Biorn had also a dog of extraordinary fierceness, a terribly vicious brute, dangerous for people to live with, which had often singly destroyed twelve men.

But, since the tale is hearsay rather than certainty, let good judges weigh its credit.

This dog, as I have heard, was the favourite of the giant Offot (Un-foot), and used to watch his herd amid the pastures.
Now the warriors, who were always pillaging the neighbourhood, used often to commit great slaughters.

Plundering houses, cutting down cattle, sacking everything, making great hauls of booty, rifling houses, then burning them, massacring male and female promiscuously--these, and not honest dealings, were their occupations.