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"White ravens are rare," said Björn of Brekkukot one morning when the sun glistened on the fish-scales in the mire round our house and two important-looking visitors were edging their way through our turnstile-gate.
"Hullo, my dear Georg, and welcome home. And hullo to you, little Gúmúnsen. Well, well, it's enough to make the lice drop dead from my head! Condescend to enter the house."