that you make matters up with him handsomely.  But now, my friend, I would like to counsel you to leave off trade-journeyings, and to settle down and marry, and become a chief as befits your high birth.”  Thorkell answered, “Often your counsels have stood me in good stead,” and he asked if Snorri had bethought him of the woman he should woo.  Snorri answers, “You must woo the woman who is the best match for you, and that woman is Gudrun, Osvif’s daughter.”  Thorkell said it was true that a marriage with her would be an honourable one.  “But,” says he, “I think her fierce heart and reckless-mindedness weigh heavily, for she will want to have her husband, Bolli, avenged.  Besides, it is said that on this matter there is some understanding between her and Thorgils Hallason, and it may be that this will not be altogether to his liking.  Otherwise, Gudrun pleases me well.”  Snorri said, “I will undertake to see that no harm shall come to you from Thorgils; but as to the revenge for Bolli, I am rather in hopes that concerning that matter some change will have befallen before these seasons (this year) are out.”  Thorkell answered, “It may be that these be no empty words you are speaking now.  But as to the revenge of Bolli, that does not seem to me more likely to happen now than it did a while ago, unless into that strife some of the greater men may be drawn.”  Snorri said, “I should be well pleased to see you go abroad once more this summer, to let us see then what happens.”  Thorkell said so it should be, and they parted, leaving matters where they now stood.  Thorkell went west over Broadfirth-country to his ship.  He took Grim with him abroad.  They had a good summer-voyage, and came to the south of Norway.  Then Thorkell said to Grim, “You know how the case stands, and what things happened to bring about our acquaintance, so I need say nothing about that matter; but I would fain that it should turn out better than at one time it seemed likely it would.  I have found you a valiant man, and for that reason I will so part from you, as if I had never borne you any grudge.  I will give you as much merchandise as you need in order to be able to join the guild of good merchants.  But do not settle down here in the north of this land, for many of Eid’s kinsmen are about on trading journeys who bear you heavy ill-will.”  Grim thanked him for these words, and said he could never have thought of asking for as much as he offered.  At parting Thorkell gave to Grim a goodly deal of merchandise, and many men said that this deed bore the stamp of a great man. [Sidenote:  The end of the story of Grim] After that Grim went east in the Wick, settled there, and was looked upon as a mighty man of his ways; and therewith comes to an end what there is to be told about Grim.  Thorkell was in Norway through the winter, and was thought a man of much account; he was exceeding wealthy in chattels.  Now this matter must be left for a while, and the story must be taken up out in Iceland, so let us hear what matters befell there for tidings to be told of whilst Thorkell was abroad.