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The following verse was composed on these doings:
"Hard were the blows which were dealt at Rifsker;
no weapons they had but steaks of the whale.
They belaboured each other with rotten blubber.
Unseemly methinks is such warfare for men."
After this they made peace, and the dispute was laid before the
All-Thing. On the side of the Kaldbak men were Thorodd the Godi,
Skeggi of Midfjord, and many others from the South. Flosi was
exiled, along with several others who had been with him. He was
put to great expense, for he insisted upon paying all the fines
himself. Thorgrim and his brothers were unable to show that they
had paid any money either for the land or for the drift which
Flosi claimed. The Lawman was Thorkell Mani, and the question
was referred to him. He declared that by law something must have
been paid, though not necessarily the full value.
"There was a case in point," he said, "between my grandfather
Ingolf and a woman named Steinvor the Old. He gave her the whole
of Rosmhvalanes and she gave him a dirty cloak for it; the
transfer was afterwards held to be valid. That was a much more
important affair than this. My advice is that the land be
divided in equal portions between the two; and henceforward it
shall be legally established that all drift shall be the property
of the owner of the land upon which it has been stranded."
This was agreed to. Thorgrim and his brothers were to give up
Reykjarfjord with all on that side, and were to keep Kamb. For
Ofeig a large sum of money was paid, and Thorfinn was assessed at
nothing at all; Thorgeir received compensation for the attack
made upon his life, and all the parties were reconciled. Flosi
went to Norway with Steinn the captain and sold his lands in Vik
to Geirmund Hvikatimbr, who lived there thenceforward.
The ship which Steinn's sailors had built was rather a tub. She
was called Trekyllir--Tree-sack. Flosi went on his journey in
her, but was driven back to Oxarfjord; out of this arose the saga
of Bodmod the Champion and Grimolf.
CHAPTER XIII
THORGRIM SETTLES AT BJARG AND MARRIES. HIS SON ASMUND VISITS
NORWAY AND MARRIES TWICE
After these events Thorgrim and his brothers divided up the
property between them. Thorgrim took the movable property and
Thorgeir the lands. Then Thorgrim went inland to Midfjord and
bought some land at Bjarg with the aid of Skeggi. He married
Thordis, the daughter of Asmund from Asmund's peak who had land
in Thingeyrasveit. They had a son named Asmund, a great man and
strong, also wise, and notable for his abundance of hair, which
turned grey very early. He was called Longhair.
Thorgrim occupied himself with the management of his estate and
kept all the men of his household hard at work. Asmund did not
want to work, so that he and his father got on rather badly
together. This continued until Asmund was grown up, when he
asked his father to give him the means to go abroad. Thorgrim
said he should have little enough, but he gave him some ready
cash. So Asmund went away and soon increased his capital. He
sailed to divers lands, became a great trader and very wealthy.
He was popular and enjoyed good credit, and had many friends
among the leading men of Norway.
One autumn Asmund was in the East on a visit to a certain magnate
named Thorsteinn. His family came from the Upplands, and he had
a sister named Rannveig who had excellent prospects. Asmund
asked this girl in marriage and obtained her through the interest
of her brother Thorsteinn; he settled there for a time and was
highly thought of. He and Rannveig had a son named Thorsteinn,
who became a handsome man, strong, and with a powerful voice. He
was very tall and rather sluggish in his movements, wherefore he
was nicknamed Dromund. When young Thorsteinn was half grown up
his mother fell ill and died, and Asmund cared no more for
Norway. Thorsteinn was taken over by his mother's relations
along with his property, while Asmund went on voyages and became
famous.
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