Grettir

Grettir the Strong (said to have lived c. 996-1031)

"Arriving at the well is one thing; drinking is another."

• A saying attributed to Grettir, in the anonymously written Grettir's Saga (c. 14th century), chapter 57, translated by Jesse Byock (Oxford World's Classics, 2009).

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