Original sentence: Grettir's intentions are not necessarily bad, but he is ill-tempered and often does things that he later regrets: he is also very unlucky so that some of his actions have severe unintended consequences
Edited sentence: , Grettir's Saga, (U of Toronto P, 1974).Also see Denton Fox and Hermann Pálsson trans.Grettir is an odd hero, almost an anti-hero.His intentions are not necessarily bad, but he is ill-tempered and often does things that he later regrets: he is also very unlucky so that some of his actions have severe unintended consequences.The tale has been translated into English several times, including a translation by William Morris