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Now in the Spring Thorkel Toothgnasher, who was Stangerd's brother, came up to Sowerby and asked for Berse. He had a man called Wale with him, a red-haired, broken-nosed man with a very shiny face. Stanvor saw them, and said that Berse was from home. They said that they would wait, and sat down in the hall. Stanvor served them with drink, and Toothgnasher, before his draught, looked at her over the rim of the horn.
"You had something to do with my sister's flitting, little mistress, I think."