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When it was suggested that the match would be a wise decision due to Thorbjorn ’ s financial situation, he announced that he would rather “ leave my farm than live with this loss of honor, and rather leave the country than shame my family .” Gudrid and her father promptly left Iceland and voyaged to Greenland to accompany Eirik the Red.
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