about noon
It was not known then that he had come to Midfjord . He learned that Thorbjorn Oxmain was at home with few men . This was after the hay-harvest . One fine day Grettir rode to the West across the ridge to Thoroddsstad , where he arrived about noon and knocked at the door . Some women came out and greeted him , not knowing who he was . He asked for Thorbjorn , and they told him that he was gone out into the fields to bind hay with his sixteen-year-old son Arnor . Thorbjorn was a hard worker and was scarcely ever idle .