{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/gre/gre46.htm","path":"neu/gre/gre46.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/gre/gre46.htm","text":"Of Thorstein Dromond's Arms, and what he deemed they might do.\nNOW Grettir was with Thorstein for the rest of the winter and on into the spring; and it befell one morning, as those brothers, Thorstein and Grettir, lay in their sleeping-loft, that Grettir had laid his arms outside the bedclothes; and Thorstein was awake and saw it. Now Grettir woke up a little after, and then spake Thorstein:\n\"I have seen thine arms, kinsman,\" said he, \"and I deem it nowise wonderful, though thy strokes fall heavy on many, for no man's arms have I seen like thine.\"\n\"Thou mayst know well enough,\" said Grettir, \"that I should not have brought such things to pass as I have wrought, if I were not well knit.\"\n\"Better should I deem it,\" said Thorstein, \"if they were slenderer and somewhat luckier withal.\"\nGrettir said, \"True it is, as folk say, No man makes himself; but let me see thine arms,\" said he.\nThorstein did so; he was the longest and gauntest of men; and Grettir laughed, and said,\n\"No need to look at that longer; hooked together are the ribs in thee; nor, methinks, have I ever seen such tongs as thou bearest about, and I deem thee to be scarce of a woman's strength.\"\n\"That may be,\" said Thorstein; \"yet shalt thou know that these same thin arms shall avenge thee, else shalt thou never be avenged; who may know what shall be, when all is over and done?\"\nNo more is told of their talk together; the spring wore on, and Grettir took ship in the summer. The brothers parted in friendship, and saw each other never after.","title":"Chapter XLI: Of Thorstein Dromond's Arms, and what he dee...","type":"page"}