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Updated: June 11, 2025
The King said: I will give you this ship and reward you for the white bear. Audunn thanked the King for his gift as well as he knew how.
The King said: That was magnificent, and more than I should have done. I would have thought my debt discharged if I had given you the ship. Did he give you anything else? Certainly he gave me something else, my Lord, said Audunn; he gave me this ring which I am wearing on my arm, and said that I might chance to lose all my property, and yet not be destitute if I had this ring.
Audunn left Iceland from the Western Firths with the assistance of Thorsteinn, a substantial farmer, and of Thorir, a ship's captain, who had stayed with Thorsteinn during the winter. Audunn had been on the same farm, working for Thorir, and as his reward he got his passage to Norway under Thorir's care.
When Audunn considered this, it seemed to him that there was some truth in what the steward had said, and they agreed on these terms: he gave Aki half the bear, and the King was then to set a value on the whole. Now they were both to visit the King, and so they did. They went into his presence and stood before his table.
Here, the man who goes out across half the world in quest of the millennium is in the end led back to his origins. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1955. Tke University of Iceland, Reykjavík. Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson. There was a man called Audunn; he came of a family of the Western Firths, and was not well off.
The King received the gift graciously and gave Audunn fine presents in exchange before they parted. Audunn laid out his merchandise on his voyage to Iceland, and sailed out that same summer, and people thought him the luckiest of men.
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