Forgot to indicate in the heading that the previous post was my translation.
Duh.

When Gunnar rides home carrying Hjort on his shield on a horse, I have a
hard time picturing this or is it just a figure of speach? I was looking at
Tacitus' writings about the Germanic tribes and he has something in there
about it being a shameful thing to lose one's shield in battle - - that
warriors would go off and hang themselves if it happened to them. Is there
something like that here? Just the mention that the man's shield is coming
home with him or was it an actual functional thing - - making it practical
to tie the man on top of the shield onto the pack horse - - again hard to
imagine.
Grace
Fred and Grace Hatton
Hawley Pa