Moreover, I have with me two score of them, who are men of some wits,
and who know of the stores of victual and other wares which the
felons had, and these will fetch and carry for you as much as ye
will. Is all done rightly, War-leader?'
'Right well,' said Face-of-god, 'and we give thee our thanks
therefor. And now it were well if these thy folk were to dight our
dinner for us in some green field the nighest that may be, and
thither shall all the Host be bidden by sound of horn. Meantime, let
us void this Hall till it be cleansed of the filth of the Dusky Ones;
but hereafter shall we come again to it, and light a fire on the Holy
Hearth, and bid the Gods and the Fathers come back and behold their
children sitting glad in the ancient Hall.'
Then men shouted and were exceeding joyous; but Face-of-god said once
more: 'Bear ye a bench out into the Market-place over against the
door of this Hall: thereon will I sit with other chieftains of the
kindreds, that whoso will may have recourse to us.'
So therewith all the men of the kindreds made their ways out of the
Hall and into the Market-stead, which was by this time much cleared
of the slaughtered felons; and the bale for the burnt-offering was
now but smouldering, and a thin column of blue smoke was going up
wavering amidst the light airs of the afternoon.
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