CHAPTER L

OF KALI AND GILLICHRIST.

WHEN Kali was fifteen winters old, he went with some merchants to

England, taking with him a good (cargo of) merchandise. They went to a

trading place called Grímsbœ (Grimsby). There was a great number of

people from Norway, as well as from the Orkneys, Scotland, and the

Sudreyar. Kali met there a man who was called Gillichrist. The latter

asked Kali about many things in Norway, and spoke chiefly with him, so

that they became companions. Then he told Kali in confidence that his

name was Harald,[315] that Magnus Barelegs was his father, and his

mother was in the Sudreyar. He further asked him how he would be

received in Norway if he came there. Kali said that he thought King

Sigurd would be likely to receive him well, if others did not set him

against him. Gillichrist and Kali exchanged presents, and at parting

they promised each other mutual friendship wherever they might meet.

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