Grettis saga, part 3.

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Önundur has babies. Wife dies, new wife in, moar babies, Önundur dies of old age, new wife re-marries. In order of age Önundur's sons were Þorgeir, Ófeigur Grettir and Þorgrímur.

Flosi: "I don't like those brothers living on our lands. Þorfinnur go kill Þorgeir."

Þorfinnur: *chop*

Þorgeir's drinking bottle that he just happened to have on his back that day: *argl*

Þorfinnur: *running away already and so does not realize that only the bottle died*

Þorgeir: *achievement unlocked; gain nickname 'bottleback'*



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Whale: "I'll just beach myself here no biggie."

Flosi: "Cool! Whale is mine!"

Þorgeir, Ófeigur and Þorgrímur: "NOPE, ours."

Lots of fighting. Someone loses a leg, Þorgeir Bottleback returns Þorfinnur his little ax by embedding it firmly into his neck, someone else gets clobbered to death with a whale rib I swear I'm not making this up. Ófeigur dies. In the end the brothers have to leg it or as you'd have it, row away like the devil was after them but somehow they also managed to load up their ship with pieces of whale. I don't know how you stop fighting someone who wants to kill you just so you can cut whale but idk maybe I'm just too simple to understand these texts.

Anyway Flosi gets outlawed and has some interesting adventures elsewhere, I'm sure.

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Þorgrímur and Þorgeir split their belongings and Þorgrímur marries a Þórdís. Their child is Ásmundur and he's an ok lad but lazy.

Ásmundur: "Dad give me money."

Þorgrímur: "Piss off. Ok but on the condition that you really do piss off."

Ásmundur goes to Norway, becomes rich and marries a Rannveig. Their son Þorsteinn is an ok lad but a bit slow on the uptake.

Rannveig dies so Ásmundur sail away and leaves everything behind including the son. In Iceland he marries Ásdís whose a daughter of this dude who's the son of this and that, and oh, Ásdís' mother's name is Aldís and she's the daughter of Ófeigur Grettir -

WAITWAITWAIT HOLD IT NOW

Ófeigur Grettir was Þorgrímur's brother!!! Ok they had different mothers but certainly the same father. So... Ásmundur's marrying his cousin's daughter. No comment on that.

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Babies. Atli, Grettir (who Ásmundur doesn't really like but at least he's his mother's favourite), Þórdís and Rannveig. Þórdís will later on have a baby Óspakur but you'll have to wait until Bandamanna saga to learn more about him.

Ásmundur: "Stop sitting on your butt and do some household chores."

Grettir: "Dude your household chores are, like, so below my real power levels."

Ásmundur: "Shut up and look after the chickens."

Ásmundur: "Ok Grettir why are all the chicken now dead?"

Grettir: "I totally looked after them tho."

Ásmundur: "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF YOU LITTLE - ok then you'll rub my back instead."

Grettir: *whacks him on the back with a wool comb*

Ásmundur: "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF OK. Go watch after the horses. Btw if the mare doesn't want to go out it means she's smelling a storm coming along so then just lock them in instead."

Grettir: "Do I look stupid enough to listen to a horse or."

Anyway, then Grettir gets annoyed at the horse and cuts all the skin off its back. Ásmundur thinks of this probably exactly as you are thinking of it now.

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There's this guy Auðunn who plays ice hockey against Grettir, and is much better at it. Grettir's a sore loser and starts a fight but it does not go according to the keikaku, because Auðunn is also better at fighting.



Part 4.