Onund Tree-Foot (semi-mythical Norwegian Viking and Icelandic settler said to live in the 9th century)
“Many would-be warriors
mouth off but fail to think.
Your type sadly lacks practice
in fighting it out to the end.”
- Spoken by the character, Onund Tree-Foot, in the anonymously written Grettir’s Saga (c. 14th century), translated by Jesse Byock (Oxford World’s Classics, 2009).
