Crossword-Solution: WETHERS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Now dead lies the yeoman unwept and unknown On the field he hath furrowed, the ridge he hath sown: And all in the middle of wethers and neat The maidens are driven with blood on their feet; For yet 'twixt the Burg-gate and battle half-won The dust-driven highway creeps uphill and on, And the smoke of the beacons goes coiling aloft, While the gathering horn bloweth loud, louder and oft.

Towards the time of gathering in the cattle Grettir went down to Flysjuhverfi to get some sheep and got four wethers.

THE BATTLE WITH THE MYRAMEN When Grettir had been two winters in Fagraskogafjall and the third winter had set in, he went South into Myrar to the farm called Laekjarbug, where he took six wethers without their owner's permission.

There you may find floundering in the unstable drifts "tainted wethers" of the wild sheep, faint from age and hunger; easy prey.

After a time the pleasure, when compulsory, began to pall; and I used to wonder what on earth could induce the ruck to waste their time in following, sheeplike, their bell-wethers, or waste their money in paying for that honour.