Feðgarnir í Vestmannaeyjum
When Grímur Pálsson, who later became a priest at Helgafell, was in trade in the Westman Islands, there was a father and son there who were both named Guðmundur. The elder was a lead singer there in the islands; the younger was a good sailor, but bold and reckless; furthermore, he was a heavy drinker.
One winter, Grímur dreamed that he was in Landakirkja. He saw a door there in the choir wall, where the younger Guðmundur's seat was, and it seemed to him as if 12 bodies were carried out through it, and one would be the body of the younger Guðmundur, while the elder Guðmundur walked behind and sang this verse from the table-hymn in the old Grallari (hymnbook):
"While they satiated themselves, they remembered you least; they took for themselves pagan joy, a fierce wrath fell upon them."
At Grímur's request, Guðmundur rowed his júll (a small boat) during the fishing season with eleven other men. But once, in good weather, he allowed a man without transport to float with them as the twelfth man, and on that day he perished, and people thought that he had overloaded his boat.
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Original text
(Eptir handriti sèra Skúla Gíslasonar)
Þegar Grímur Pálsson, er seinna var prestur á Helgafelli, var við verzlun í Vestmannaeyum, voru þar 2 feðgar, er báðir hètu Guðmundar. Var hinn eldri forsaungvari þar í eyunum; hinn ýngri var sjómaður góður, en djarfur og ófyrirleitinn; enda var hann drykkjumaður mikill.
Einn vetur dreymdi Grím, að hann væri í Landakirkju. Sá hann þar dyr á kórvegg, þar sem sæti Guðmundar ýngra var, og þókti honum sem 12 lík væru borin þar út, og mundi eitt vera lík Guðmundar ýngra, en Guðmundur eldri gekk á eptir og saung þetta vers úr borðsálminum í gamla Grallaranum:
„Meðan mettuðu sig, mintust þeir sízt á þig; tóku sèr heiðna gleði, grimm fèll á þá reiði.“
Að bón Gríms reri Guðmundur á juli sinu um vertíðina við ellefta mann. En einu sinni lofaði hann í góðu veðri farlausum manni að fljóta með hinum tólfta, en á þeim degi fórst hann og hugðu menn, að hann hefði ofhlaðið sig.
