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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

A Saying of Thorir

Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas. Translated with an Introduction by Gwyn Jones (1961; rpt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 10 (from Hen-Thorir, chapter 5):
‘You have all the right in the world,’ said Thorir, ‘to help people with what is yours, but not with what is mine.’