Angle claimed Grettir's Head-money
CHAP. LXXXVI.
How Thorbiorn Angle brought Grettir's
Head to Biarg
CHAP. LXXXVII.
Affairs at the Althing
CHAP. LXXXVIII.
Thorbiorn Angle goes to Norway, and thence
to Micklegarth
CHAP. LXXXIX.
How the Short-Sword was the easier known
when sought for by reason of the notch in
the blade
CHAP. XC.
How the Lady Spes redeemed Thorstein from
the Dungeon
CHAP. XCI.
Of the Doings of Thorstein and the Lady Spes
CHAP. XCII.
Of the Oath that Spes made before the Bishop
CHAP. XCIII.
Thorstein and Spes come out to Norway
CHAP. XCIV.
Thorstein Dromund and Spes leave Norway
again
CHAP. XCV.
How Thorstein Dromund and Spes fared to
Rome and died there

NOTES AND CORRECTIONS.
INDICES.
INDEX I.
INDEX II.
INDEX III.
PERIPHRASTIC EXPRESSIONS IN THE SONGS.
PROVERBS AND PROVERBIAL SAYINGS THAT OCCUR IN THE STORY.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE STORY.

872. The battle of Hafrsfirth.

874. Begins the settlement of Iceland.
cca.897. Thrand and Ufeigh Grettir settle Gnup-Wardsrape.
cca.900. Onund Treefoot comes to Iceland.
cca.920. Death of Onund Treefoot.
929. The Althing established.
997 (?). Grettir born.
1000. Christianity sanctioned by law.
1004. Skapti Thorodson made lawman.
1011. Grettir slays Skeggi; goes abroad, banished for three years.
1012. Slaying of Thorir Paunch and his fellows in Haramsey.
Earl Eric goes to Denmark.
1013. Slaying of Biorn at the Island of Gartar.
Slaying of Thorgils Makson. Illugi Asmundson
born. Death of Thorkel Krafla.
1014. Slaying of Gunnar in Tunsberg. Grettir goes
back to Iceland; fights with the men of Meal
on Ramfirth-neck. Heath-slayings. Thorgeir
Havarson outlawed. Fight with Glam
the ghost.
1015. Fight of Nesjar in Norway. Slaying of Thorbiorn
Tardy. Grettir fares abroad. Burning
of the sons of Thorir of Garth. Death of
Asmund the Greyhaired.
1016. Grettir meets King Olaf; fails to bear iron; goes
east to Tunsberg to Thorstein Dromund.
Slaying of Atli of Biarg. Grettir outlawed
at the Thing for the burning of the sons of
Thorir; his return to Iceland. Slaying of
Thorbiorn Oxmain and his son Arnor.
1017. Grettir at Reek-knolls. Lawsuit for the slaying
of Thorbiorn Oxmain. Grettir taken by
the Icefirth churls.
1018. Grettir at Liarskogar with Thorstein Kuggson;
his travels to the East to Skapti the lawman
and Thorhall of Tongue, and thence to the
Keel-mountain, where he met Hallmund
(Air) for the first time.
1019-1021. Grettir on Ernewaterheath.
1021. Grettir goes to the Marshes.
1022-1024. Grettir in Fairwoodfell.
1024. Grettir visits Hallmund again.
1025. Grettir discovers Thorirs-dale.
1025-1026. Grettir travels round by the East; haunts
Madderdale-heath and Reek-heath.
1026. Thorstein Kuggson slain.
1027. Grettir at Sand-heaps in Bard-dale.
1028. Grettir haunts the west by Broadfirth-dales,
meets Thorod Snorrison.
1028-1031. Grettir in Drangey.
1029. Grettir visits Heron-ness-thing.
1030. Grettir fetches fire from Reeks. Skapti the law
man dies.
1031. Death of Snorri Godi and Grettir Asmundson.
1033. Thorbiorn Angle slain.

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