jorn, "and we do not seem
likely to have our revenge, but you have not much fear for yourself."

Thus they disputed for long, but came to no agreement.

We have now to tell of Haering. He climbed all about on the cliffs and
got to the top in a place which no other man ever reached before or
since. On reaching the top he saw the two brothers standing with their
backs turned to him. He hoped in a short time to win money and glory
from both. They had no inkling of his being there, and thought that
nobody could get up except where the ladders were. Grettir was occupied
with Thorbjorn's men, and there was no lack of derisive words on both
sides. Then Illugi looked round and saw a man coming towards them,
already quite close. He said: "Here is a man coming towards us with his
axe in the air; he has a rather hostile appearance."

"You deal with him," said Grettir, "while I look after the ladder."
Illugi then advanced against the Easterner, who on seeing him turned and
ran about all over the island. Illugi chased him to the furthest end of
the island; on reaching the edge he leaped down and broke every bone
in his body; thus his life ended. The place where he perished was
afterwards called Haering's leap. Illugi returned and Grettir asked him
how he had parted with his man.

"He would not trust me to manage for him," he said. "He broke his neck
over the cliff. The bondis may pray for him as for a dead man."

When Angle heard that he told his men to shove off. "I have now been
twice to meet Grettir," he said. "I may come a third time, and if then
I return no wiser than I am now, it is likely that they may stay in
Drangey, so far as I am concerned. But methinks Grettir will not be
there so long in the future as he has been in the past."

They then returned home and this journey seemed even worse than the
one before. Grettir stayed in Drangey and saw no more of Thorbjorn
that winter. Skapti the Lawman died during the winter, whereby Grettir
suffered a great loss, for he had promised to press for a removal of his
sentence when he had been twenty years an outlaw, and the events just
related were in the nineteenth year. In the spring died Snorri the Godi,
and much more happened during this winter season which does not belong
to our saga.

CHAPTER LXXVII. GRETTIR'S CASE BEFORE THE ALL-THING

That summer at the All-Thing Grettir's friends spoke much about
his outlawry, and some held that his term was fulfilled when he h