Grettir - Sword

His mother accompanied him for a way, and before they parted she said the following: 'You were sent from home, kinsman, without the honour that I would have wished for a man as well born as you. It seems to me that you most lack good weapons, and my heart tells me that you will need them.'

Then she took from under her cloak an inlaid sword. It was a fine weapon. She said: 'Jokul, my grandfather, owned this sword, as did others of the Vatnsdal men, and it brought them victory. Now I want to give this sword to you. Use it well."

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17. Grettir Sails for Norway