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He said, "Well, if ye are so fain that I be dragged about here, ye must do so much therefor, as to handsel me peace, here at the Thing, and until such time as I come back to my home." Then they all sprang up and said that so they would do indeed; but Hafr was the name of him who urged most that peace should be given to the man.
Then they gazed one on the other, and awe spread over their faces, for they deemed they knew surely that this was Grettir Asmundson, for that he was unlike other men for his growth and prowess' sake: and all stood silent, but Hafr deemed he had made himself a fool.
This Hafr was the son of Thorarin, the son of Hafr, the son of Thord Knob, who had settled land up from the Weir in the Fleets to Tongue-river, and who dwelt at Knobstead; and a wordy man was Hafr. So now he gave forth the handselling grandly with open mouth, and this is the beginning thereof. <i>The Handselling of Peace</i>.
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