Story · Swim
Grettir's swim
7 km
An outlaw's swim through Arctic sea to fetch fire.
Swim 7 km. Drangey to the mainland.
- It stands on
- Plum Pudding
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Plum Pudding
- Weekly distance
- About 7 km of swimming a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long swim
- 3.2 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Plum Pudding counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
In the saga, the outlaw Grettir swam about 7 km of Arctic sea from the island of Drangey to the mainland to fetch fire. It is a saga, not history. Swimmers have repeated it since 1927. Source: Grettis saga, chapter 75.
The ladder
- Ice mile/
- Swim to Antarctica/
- Between the monsters/
- Across the Cold War/
- Hellespont/
- Plum Pudding/
- Grettir's swim