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Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga by Traditional
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Kolbeinsvik, and Kaldbaksvik as far as Kaldbak's Cliff.
Afterwards Eirik gave him Veidileysa with Reykjarfjord and the
outer part of Reykjanes on that side. Nothing was settled about
the drift which came to the coast, because there was so much of
it that every one could have what he wanted. Onund made his home
in Kaldbak and had a large household. His property increased
and he had another house in Reykjarfjord. Kolbeinn lived in
Kolbeinsvik and for some years Onund lived quietly at home.




CHAPTER X

OFEIG GRETTIR IS KILLED. VISIT OF ONUND TO AUD THE DEEP-MINDED


Onund was a man of such valour that few, even of those whose
limbs were sound, could measure themselves against him. His
name, too, was renowned throughout the whole country on account
of his ancestry. It happened that a dispute arose between Ofeig
Grettir and one Thorbjorn called Jarlakappi, which ended in
Ofeig being killed by Thorbjorn in Grettisgeil near Haell. The
feud was taken up by Ofeig's sons who assembled a large force of
men. Onund Treefoot was sent for, and in the spring he rode
South to Hvamm, where he stayed with Aud the Deep-Minded. He had
been with her over the sea in the West, and she received him with
welcome. Her grandson, Olaf Feilan, was then grown up, and Aud
was very infirm. She consulted Onund concerning her kinsman
Olaf, for whom she wished to ask in marriage Alfdis of the Barra
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