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Updated: June 29, 2025
Now Grettir came to Reek-knolls about winter-nights, and prayed Thorgils for winter abode; Thorgils said, that for him as for other free men meat was ready; "but the fare of guests here is nowise choice." Grettir said he was not nice about that.
And there sat Thorgils, fully armed, on a great horse that was white with foam, but had been carefully ridden. "Ho, comrade! have you heard the news?" he said, gripping my hand. "Twenty times in half an hour," I answered. "But is there somewhat fresh?" "Have any of your twenty told you that these knaves of Welsh have broken peace with us, tried to burn Watchet town and had their heads broken?"
Grettir came to Reykjaholar towards the beginning of the winter and asked Thorgils to let him stay the winter with him. Thorgils said he was welcome to his entertainment, like other free men; "but," he said, "we do not pay much attention to the preparation of the food." Grettir said that would not trouble him. "There is another little difficulty," Thorgils continued.
Halldor did not flatly refuse to deal further with the case. "I know only too well that Thorgils Hallason and Bolli's sons were minded to fall on me and my brothers, until you turned elsewhere their vengeance, so that thence-forward it seemed to them best to slay Helgi Hardbeinson.
I should surely have gone berserk, like the men Thorgils told me of as we rode yesterday, had I been able to get free for a moment. They took my belongings to the leaders, and they asked for some one who could read the letter, and there was none, even as I had expected, so that I was glad.
Helgi asked if they sat in a ring or side by side in a line. The lad said, "There sat a man in a stained saddle, in a blue cloak. He was great of growth, and valiant-looking; he was bald in front and somewhat 'tooth-bare." Helgi said, "I know that man clearly from your tale. There you have seen Thorgils Hallason, from west out of Hord-Dale. I wonder what he wants with us, the hero."
He would see to that, and take all the blame thereof himself, caring nothing for any man, if blame there should be from those who set the war on foot. So although I waited to hear from time to time as Thorgils came and went, getting also word from him when some Danish ship crossed to Watchet, nought was said of Owen's return.
They saw four men riding away from the dairy, and they rode very fast too. It seems to me that those are only women." A good many of them gainsaid this. Thorgils said that Thorleik should rule in the matter, for he knew that he was a very far-sighted man. They now turned to the dairy.
There we could see all the wild Exmoor hills before us, with the sea away to our right, and Thorgils shewed us where lay, under the very headlands of the hills we were crossing, the place where his folk had their haven. He said that he could see the very smoke from the hearths, but maybe that was only because he knew where it ought to be, and we laughed at him.
So it came to pass that in an hour and a half Thorgils and I and Erpwald, who would by no means let me go without him, and three of his Sussex friends, rode across the causeway to the Polden hills in the dusk, with a matter of six score men behind us, well armed and mounted all for these borderers have need to keep horse and arms of the best, and those ever ready.
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