Crossword-Solution: SKAL 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Kari rode to Skal, and gave notice of these manslayings as done by his hand; there, too, he told them of the death of their master and five others, and of Grani's wound, and said it would be better to bear him to the house if he were to live.

The tenses for which there is no inflection in the active, and all those of the passive, are formed by the auxiliaries _skal_ (shall), _hafa_ (have), _vera_ (be) with the infin.

The abrupt change from the indirect to the direct narration is very common: _Haraldi konungi var sagt at þar var komit bjarndȳri, 'ok ā Īslęnzkr maðr,'_ 'King Harold was told that a bear had arrived, and that an Icelander owned it.' The direct narration is also used after _at_ (that): _hann svarar at 'ek skal rīða til Hęljar'_ 'he answers that he will ride to Hel.' TEXTS [Note: The asterisks are to help find the spots mentioned in the notes.

Hann sęgir, Ūtgarðaloki, at þetta er gōð īþrōtt, ok kallar þess meiri vān at hann sē vel at sēr [*] būinn of skjōtleikinn, ef hann skal þessa īþrōtt inna; en þō lætr hann skjōtt þessa skulu freista.

They haled him forth, set him on high, bore him on their shoulders, shouting “Skal to the Viking!” and carried him up the wooded bluff to the Casino.