attacked Grid, wounding her in the body and in her heart. Illugi threw himself into the fight to defend Grid, killed all seven of them and burned them in the fire. Grid gave Illugi gold and he returned to the ships with fire. The other men were glad to see him, but Björn slandered Hildr and said that she was an evil troll. Sigurd told Björn to keep quiet. Later at night Björn disappeared and in the morning they found him dead hanging from the mast of the ship. This was how Grid punished him for calling her daughter a troll. Sigurd then sailed to Finnmark and then back to Denmark with the ships laden with booty. Later, king Hringr died by illness and Sigurd inherited Denmark and Skåne. Signy came to Denmark to join them and was well received by Illugi and Hildr. Illugi told Sigurd everything about Signy and Sigurd decided to marry her. They had many children and lived long. But Illugi lived longest even though he and Hildr never had any children. However, Illugi became the foster-father of Gnodar-Asmund. Editions and translations (Saga of Illugi, Grid's Fosterling, pp. 141–150) Guðni Jónsson and Bjarni Vilhjálmsson (eds), Fornaldarsögur norðurlanda, 3 vols (Reyjkjavík: Bókaútgáfan Forni, 1943–44),digitised at Heimskringa, digitised at Snerpa. Illugi Gridfostres saga, trans. by Kjell Tore Nilssen and Árni Ólafsson (2006). Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra/The Saga of Illugi the Foster Son of Grid, ed. and trans. by Gavin Chappell, The Complete Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda, Legendary Sagas of the Northland, in English Translation (2011). [Another instance of the same translation here.] The Saga of Illugi, Grid’s Foster Son, trans. by Peter Tunstall, 2005 Further reading Entry in the Stories for All Time database Philip Lavender, Long Lives of Short Sagas: The Irrepressibility of Narrative and the Case of 'Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra', The Viking Collection, 25 (Odense: University of Southern Denmark Press, 2020), (the PhD thesis on which this was based is available here). References Legendary sagas