At the end of the summer Thorbjorn Angle went with a boat fully manned
to Drangey. Grettir and his party came forward on the cliff and they
talked together. Thorbjorn begged Grettir to do so much for his asking
as to quit the island. Grettir said there was not much hope of that.
Thorbjorn said: "It may be that I can give you some assistance which
will make it worth your while to do this. Many of the bondis have now
given up the shares which they had in the island to me."
Grettir said: "Now for the very reason that you have just told me,
because you own the greater part of the island, I am determined never
to go hence. We may now divide the cabbage. It is true that I thought it
irksome to have the whole of Skagafjord against me, but now neither
need spare the other, since neither is suffocated with the love of his
fellows. You may as well put off your journeys hither, for the matter is
settled so far as I am concerned."
"All abide their time," he said, "and you abide evil."
"I must risk that," he said. And so they parted. Thorbjorn returned home
again.