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Short of stature, large of limb, / Burly face and russet beard, / All the women stared at him, / When in Iceland he appeared. / "Look! " they said, / With nodding head, / "There goes Thangbrand, Olaf's Priest."
All the prayers he knew by rote, / He could preach like Chrysostome, / From the Fathers he could quote, / He had even been at Rome, / A learned clerk, / A man of mark, / Was this Thangbrand, Olaf's Priest,