Grettis Saga; The Story of Grettir the Strong (Paperback)

Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1869 edition. Auszug: ...on thee shall no trouble fall for my sake," said he. So he made ready to go, and mother and son parted in love; but first he went to Meals in Ramfirth, and told Gamli his brother-in-law all, even as it had happed, concerning the slaying of Thorbiorn. Gamli told him he must needs depart from Ramfirth while Thorbiorn's kin had their folk about; "But our aid in the suit for Atli's slaying we shall yield thee as we may." So thereafter Grettir rode west over Laxdale-heath, and stayed not till he came to Liarskogar to Thorstein Kuggson, where he dwelt long that autumn. CHAP. XLIX. The gathering to avenge Thorbiorn Oxmain. THOROD Drapa-stump sought tidings of this who might have slain Thorbiorn and his son, and when he came to Reeks, it was told him that Grettir had been there and given out the slayings as from his hand. Now, Thorod deemed he saw how things had come to pass; so he went to Biarg, and there found many folk, but he asked if Grettir were there. The goodwife said he had ridden away, and that she would not slip him into hiding-places if he were there. "Now ye will be well pleased that matters have so been wrought; nor was the slaying of Atli over-avenged, though this was paid for it. Ye asked not then what grief of heart I had; and now, too, it is well that things are even so." Therewith they rode home, and found it not easy to do aught therein. Now that spear-head which Grettir lost was not found till within the memory of men living now; it was found in the early days of Sturla Thordson the lawman, and in that marsh where Thorbiorn fell, which is now called Spearmead; and that sign men have to show that Thorbiorn was slain there, though in some places it is said that he was slain on...