English Translation

Grettir takes care of Thorfinn's house (AUS DER GRETTIR-SAGA) Grettire's youth Tch tells the story of Grettirs, who was peacefully chased into the IWildness by his people until he died, and who was brought out of the grave by this very people and consecrated to immortality as Iceland's greatest hero. His father Asmund had a beautiful economy on Bjarg am Mittfjord. He had previously come far into the world and had made his fortune as a merchant; but when his wife Asdis gave him Grettir, Asmund was a little stingy and stuck to his possessions and saw nothing else — how people are when they are too satisfied and no longer want to care for the hands and concerns of others. The child developed slowly, it was to be seen that it became different from his well - fashioned brothers, more to the mother side, for Asdis was of a generation that had born kings. When Grettir was at the age in which other boys were entrusted with all kinds of assignments, such as Grettirs' older brother Atli had gladly and willingly done, the first sparks of the young steel and the grievous stone that the old man had in his chest sprayed. It sounds gruesome to us gentle ones when a boy who is forced to keep the geese, turns his neck around to the goats and breaks the fluigels to the goose-mothers; when he snatches a annoying mare's back with a knife and scrapes his own father's spine instead of his hand with the sharp wool comb. Oh, and if he does not show repentance, but, on top of that, makes his ridicule and anger air in evil and biting verses! It is difficult for a lamb shepherd to raise a young lion with him, and also the shepherds all around become attentive, distrustful and negative, the young. But also, unfortunately, lion. Grettir grew up and became a strong young man, beautiful of face, harsh in gestures and mocking in word. Grettirs farewell It is time for me to come out once, said Grettim one day, and Thorkel, his mother's father, replied: others also seemed so. Grettir lifted up a stone by which they had laid it with both hands and slowly let it sink down again. Thorkel and his companions looked at the unfailed stone and the young man, and the words stayed out of them. Asmund did not make much words when Grettim came home. He foresaw it, he said, and if Grettir persisted in his wickedness, it would look even worse for the future. He made a place for the lost son at one of his trading friends, the Haflidi, but he did not want to give the Grettirs any money or weapons on the journey, and the farewell was very cool. But Asdis accompanied Grettir a piece of way, and when they were apart- 19