“Yea, seest thou thy wide wounds bleed? 
  What of shrinking didst thou heed
  In the one-foot sling of gold? 
  What scratch here dost thou behold? 
  And in e’en such wise as this
  Many an axe-breaker there is
  Strong of tongue and weak of hand: 
  Tried thou wert, and might’st not stand.”

So there they took much spoil and sailed back to Barra in the autumn.

CHAP.  V.

The summer after this they made ready to fare west to Ireland.  But at that time Balk and Hallvard betook themselves from the lands west over the sea, and went out to Iceland, for from thence came tales of land good to choose.  Balk settled land in Ramfirth and dwelt at either Balkstead; Hallvard settled Sweepingsfirth, and Hallwick out to the Stair, and dwelt there.

Now Thrand and Onund met Eyvind the Eastman, and he received his brother well; but when he knew that Onund was come with him, then he waxed wroth, and would fain set on him.  Thrand bade him do it not, and said that it was not for him to wage war against Northmen, and least of all such men as fared peaceably.  Eyvind said that he fared otherwise before, and had broken the peace of Kiarval the King, and that he should now pay for all.  Many words the brothers had over this, till Thrand said at last that one fate should befall both him and Onund; and then Eyvind let himself be appeased.

So they dwelt there long that summer, and went on warfare with Eyvind, who found Onund to be the bravest of men.  In the autumn they fared to the South-isles, and Eyvind gave to Thrand to take all the heritage of their father, if Biorn should die before Thrand.

Now were the twain in the South-isles until they wedded their wives, and some winters after withal.

CHAP.  VI.

And now it came to pass that Biorn, the father of Thrand, died; and when Grim the hersir hears thereof he went to meet Ondott Crow, and claimed the goods left by Biorn; but Ondott said that Thrand had the heritage after his father; Grim said that Thrand was west over seas, and that Biorn was a Gothlander of kin, and that the king took the heritage of all outland men.  Ondott said that he should keep the goods for the hands of Thrand, his daughter’s son; and therewith Grim gat him gone, and had nought for his claiming the goods.

Now Thrand had news of his father’s death, and straightway got ready to go from the South-isles, and Onund Treefoot with him; but Ufeigh Grettir and Thormod Shaft went out to Iceland with their kith and kin, and came out to the Eres in the south country, and dwelt the first winter with Thorbiorn Salmon-Carle.

Thereafter they settled Gnup-Wards’-rape, Ufeigh, the outward part, between Thwart-river and Kalf-river, and he dwelt at Ufeigh’s-stead by Stone-holt; but Thormod settled the eastward part, and abode at Shaft-holt.