Crossword-Solution: SIGNI 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Descartes' solution amounts to the distinction between the will expressed in the sign and the will expressive of the good pleasure (_inter voluntatem signi et beneplaciti_) which the moderns have taken from the Schoolmen as regards the terms, but to which they have given a meaning not usual among the ancients.

Smarting under the many insults that had been heaped on him--for Signi had a most cutting tongue--Rerir, who, like most of the Bersekir, was both a werwolf and a wer-bear, resolved to be revenged.

Assuming the shape of a bear--the animal he deemed the more formidable--Rerir stole to the house where Signi and her parents lived, and climbing on the roof, tore away at it with his claws till he had made a hole big enough to admit him.

The noise awoke Signi's father, who, taking in the situation at a glance, also metamorphosed into a bear and straightway closed with his assailant.

Then Signi, anxious to save her parent's life, seized a knife, and, aiming a frantic blow, inadvertently struck her father, who instantly sank on the ground, leaving her at the mercy of his furious opponent.