{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/gre/gre13.htm","path":"neu/gre/gre13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/gre/gre13.htm","text":"NOW Onund and Asmund sailed into the sea when they were ready, and held company together; then sang Onund this stave--\nMeet was I in days agone\n For storm, wherein the Sweeping One,\n Midst rain of swords, and the darts' breath,\n Blew o'er all a gale of death.\n Now a maimed, one-footed man\n On rollers' steed through waters wan\n Out to Iceland must I go;\n Ah, the skald is sinking low.\"\nThey had a hard voyage of it and much of baffling gales from the south, and drove north into the main; but they made Iceland, and were by then come to the north off Longness when they found where they were: so little space there was betwixt them that they spake together; and Asmund said that they had best sail to Islefirth, and thereto they both agreed; then they beat up toward the land, and a south-east wind sprang up; but when Onund and his folk laid the ship close to the wind, the yard was sprung; then they took in sail, and therewith were driven off to sea; but Asmund got under the lee of Brakeisle, and there lay till a fair wind brought him into Islefirth; Helgi the Lean gave him all Kr\u00e6klings'-lithe, and he dwelt at South Glass-river; Asgrim his brother came out some winters later and abode at North Glass-river; he was the father of Ellida-Grim, the father of Asgrim Ellida-Grimson.","title":"Chapter VIII","type":"page"}