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CHAPTER XXII. OF THE SLAYING OF BIORN.

[Songs extracted from the prose narrative.]

[“In hard strife I slew the bear]

[Grettir.]
“In hard strife I slew the bear,
Thereof many a man doth hear;
Then the cloak I oft had worn,
By the beast to rags was torn;

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Thou, O braggart ring-bearer,
Wrought that jest upon me there,
Now thou payest for thy jest,
Not in words am I the best.”