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Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga by Traditional
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going to Iceland, and I want you to come there too."

Onund said he would come, and they parted with great friendship.
Thrand went to Iceland, where he met with a welcome from Ofeig
and Thormod Shaft. He took up his dwelling at Thrandarholt to
the west of Thjorsa.




CHAPTER VII

MURDER OF ONDOTT CROW, AND THE VENGEANCE THEREFOR


Onund went to Rogaland in the South and visited many of his
relations and friends. He lived there in concealment with a man
named Kolbeinn. He there learned that King Harald had taken all
his property and given it into the charge of a man named Harekr,
one of his officials. Onund went by night to Harekr's house and
caught him at home; he was led to execution. Then Onund took
possession of all the loose property which he found and burnt the
building.

That autumn Grim the Hersir murdered Ondott Crow because he had
not succeeded in getting the property for the king. Ondott's
wife Signy carried off all their loose property that same night
to a ship and escaped with her sons Asmund and Asgrim to her
father Sighvat. A little later she sent her sons to Hedin, her
foster-father in Soknadal, where they remained for a time and
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