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At the time of the Thing, Grettir departed from the Marsh-country, and went to Burgfirth and found Grim Thorhallson, and sought counsel of him, as to what to do now. Grim said he had no strength to keep him, therefore fared Grettir to find Hallmund his friend, and dwelt there that summer till it wore to its latter end.
He did not at all believe that he came from that refuge of thralls. But he must seem certain unless he was to be laughed at again. So he said, "He comes from the marsh-country." "Does he speak Welsh?" "I have heard him do so to the market people, if he happened to meet a Briton there."
For his part, he had spent June in a ramble in South-west France, chiefly by the Dordogne, and through a strange, interesting bit of marsh-country, called La Double. 'I hardly know how I got there, and I shall not worry you by writing any account of the expedition.
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