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Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga by Traditional
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All-Thing. On the side of the Kaldbak men were Thorodd the Godi,
Skeggi of Midfjord, and many others from the South. Flosi was
exiled, along with several others who had been with him. He was
put to great expense, for he insisted upon paying all the fines
himself. Thorgrim and his brothers were unable to show that they
had paid any money either for the land or for the drift which
Flosi claimed. The Lawman was Thorkell Mani, and the question
was referred to him. He declared that by law something must have
been paid, though not necessarily the full value.

"There was a case in point," he said, "between my grandfather
Ingolf and a woman named Steinvor the Old. He gave her the whole
of Rosmhvalanes and she gave him a dirty cloak for it; the
transfer was afterwards held to be valid. That was a much more
important affair than this. My advice is that the land be
divided in equal portions between the two; and henceforward it
shall be legally established that all drift shall be the property
of the owner of the land upon which it has been stranded."

This was agreed to. Thorgrim and his brothers were to give up
Reykjarfjord with all on that side, and were to keep Kamb. For
Ofeig a large sum of money was paid, and Thorfinn was assessed at
nothing at all; Thorgeir received compensation for the attack
made upon his life, and all the parties were reconciled. Flosi
went to Norway with Steinn the captain and sold his lands in Vik
to Geirmund Hvikatimbr, who lived there thenceforward.

The ship which Steinn's sailors had built was rather a tub. She
was called Trekyllir--Tree-sack. Flosi went on his journey in
her, but was driven back to Oxarfjord; out of this arose the saga
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