CHAPTER XXIV THE FOSTER-BROTHERS––––––––
Now, the kinsmen of Oxmain heard where Grettir was, so they resolved to form a party, and fall upon him at Learwood. But Grettir's brother-in-law was aware of this and forewarned Grettir, so he went away to the north, and he followed Gilsfiord till he reached Reyk-knolls, where was a pleasant farm near the sea, where also were a great number of ever-boiling springs, that poured and squirted and fizzed out of mounds of red-clay. Here lived a man called Thorgils Arison, and he asked this man if he would give him shelter through the winter.
Arison said that he would. "But," said he, "there is only plain fare in my house."
"I am not choice as to my food, so long as I have a roof over my head," answered Grettir.
"There is one matter further," said Ar
