Egils saga, part 6.

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A Guttormur dies. He's the foster father of Haraldur Dramaking so naturally Haraldur wants to be nice. He orders Hallvarður and Sigtryggur to go get Guttormur's sons and bring them to serve him.

(The daughters can just stay where they are.)



27a

Skalla-Grímur: "Hay dad guess what. There's Þórólfur's old ship out there, you know, the one that Haraldur stole from him."

Kveld-Úlfur and Skalla-Grímur get some men and sneak upon the ship when the men are sleeping in the sleeping tent. Kveld-Úlfur has his men chop the tent strings and collapse it, and then he goes berserk.

Mad chopping ensues. Skalla-Grímur goes berserk too. More mad chopping ensues.

Kveld-Úlfur chops Hallvarður in the head and swings him overboard with him still sticking to the ax.

Meanwhile Skalla-Grímur chops Sigtryggur and then they chase everyone who's fleeing and well, kill them too.

But whoooops the kids that Haraldur wanted are now dead too. This just might bode trouble.

27b

Now is seriously the time to go to Iceland. Kveld-Úlfur captains one ship and Skalla-Grímur another.

Ok but there's one problem. Berserkers are rather scary when they have an attack but afterwards they get all lethargic and tired. Kveld-Úlfur's bedridden again and some time before Iceland he dies. Before that he shows his Norwegian spirit and tells the shipmates to chuck him overboard after he dies and that Skalla-Grímur should build his house where he washes ashore.

Uh, I kind of prefer the chairs.

Well, maybe they didn't have time to pack one.

27c

Reykjavík ahoy! Except that right then the ships that have somehow managed to stay together all the way over the Atlantic somehow drift apart because the weather is bad.

Although to be honest when the weather is bad in Reykjavík it's seriously bad.

Anyway, a Grímur captains the ship now that the first one's chucked overboard and he finds a shoreline.

And, er, Kveld-Úlfur too.

Nothing says home like a washed-up corpse.

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Skalla-Grímur: "Oh so here's where you guys ended up. Where's dad."

Grímur: "Over there in the pile of rocks, hay he told you you should build your home where he washed up."

Skalla-Grímur: "That is only logical."

Skalla-Grímur gives people lots of land.

29

Skalla-Grímur works his ass off and gets wealthy. There's a man called Óleifur.

Skalla-Grímur gives more people more land.

30

Meanwhile king Haraldur Prettyhair is throwing an absolute shitfit as you may have guessed. Starting from their kinsmen and working his way through their friends and eventually anyone who he thinks is looking at him the wrong way, Haraldur manages to drive quite a lot of people out of the country.

One of them's Yngvar who's somewhat distantly connected to Skalla-Grímur. Well, Iceland sounds good right? Skalla-Grímur gives him some land too.

Then Skalla-Grímur wants a stone for his forge and dives one from the bottom of the fjord. People are massively impressed.



Part 7.