English Translation

but the ten pushed the dead leaders in front of them as a shield and swollen out on both sides behind the corpses and took as weapons what they could grab, and pushed the Grettir outside the house. Four he struck, and the six ran into the sheds, and took the oars as shakers; and the servants stood trembling, and did not dare against the disloyal; but Grettir killed two in the shed, wherein the four sprang. Grettirs himself had been beaten badly, and he was already tumbling, but he rose up, and purple burned the victory in his heart. Two he hastened to Audun's shed, then he let go, for the night had turned black, and a whirlwind had set in, so that he could hardly find out about the court. He saw light in all the windows, which the housewife had so lighted for him; and she stood against him at the door, and laid his hands on his shoulders, and wept, and thanked him. — Now you call me a hero, said Grettir, am I not the same as you did last night? - Forgive me, she said, my eyes have not recognized you. Take everything I can give you and you can take in honor until Thorfinn comes and your deeds are better worth your while. — The reward does not rush, said grettir, and lay down with the weapons to bed. On the other day they gathered the bodies and found the two who escaped Grettir dead from cold and wounds, and so the one man had killed the twelve before whom all of Norway had given birth. 5 Unconcerned for his own fate, unselfishly fighting for his friends and his clan, the Germanic #ensch goes through the Aelt - Grettirs in the Saga as well as Siegfried and Parzival. 22