When Thorgunna arrived there she asked for her bed to be shown
her, and was given one in the inner part of the hall. Then she opened
up the chest, and took bed-clothes out of it: they were all very
beautiful, and over the bed she spread English coverlets and a silken
quilt. Out of the chest she also brought a bed-curtain and all the
hangings that belonged to it, and the whole outfit was so fine that
folk thought they had never seen the like of it.
Then said Thurid the housewife: "Name the price of all your bed-
clothes and hangings".
Thorgunna answered, "I will not lie among straw for you, although you
are so stately, and bear yourself so proudly".
Thurid was ill pleased at this, and offered no more to buy the things.
Thorgunna worked at cloth-making every day when there was no hay-
making, but when the weather was dry she worked among the dry hay in
the home field, and had a rake made for herself which she alone was to
use. Thorgunna was a big woman, both broad and tall, and very stout;
she had dark eyebrows, and her eyes were close set; her hair brown and
in great abundance.
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