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Grettir the Strong

 

Grettir the Strong (said to have lived in the 11th century)

“Danger is at your own door when it has entered your neighbor’s.”

  • Spoken by the character, Grettir, in the anonymously written Grettir’s Saga (c. 14th century), chapter 34, translated by Jesse Byock (Oxford World’s Classics, 2009).

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