The Story of Burnt Njal: Or, Life in Iceland at the End of the Tenth Century. From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga, Volume 2Edmonston and Douglas, 1861 - Iceland |
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Althing answered Asgrim asked atonement bade Bergthora Bjarni Bjorn booth Brodir brother busked called CHAPTER counsel daughter dromedary Earl Hacon Earl Sigurd east ells Eyjolf eyrir father fell Fifth Court Flosi Thord's gave give notice Gizur the white Grágás Grani Grim Gudmund the powerful Gunnar Lambi's Gunnhillda Hall hand Harold Hauskuld Helgi Njal's Hildigunna Hill of Laws horses Hrapp Iceland Ingialld inquest Kari Solmund's Kettle King Kolbein land Landnáma Lyting methinks Mord Valgard's Njal's sons Norway Orkneys ounce periphrasis ride rode Saga says Flosi says Kari says Njal shield ship Skapti Skarphedinn slain slay slew Snorri the priest sons of Sigfus spear spoke Starkad stood suit summoned Sweyn sword take witness tell Thangbrand thee thence Thing thither Thor Thorgeir Craggeir Thorgerda Thorhall Thorir Thorkel Thorstein thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt Thrain told took witness utter Vikings wadmal Wolf the quarrelsome words wound
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Page 149 - For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Page 336 - Bear thine own devil thyself," answered Hrafn. ' Then the Earl said— ' "Tis fittest that the beggar should bear the bag ; " and with that he took the banner from the staff, and put it under his cloak. ' A little after Asmund the White was slain, and then the Earl was pierced through with a spear.
Page 237 - Flosi ought to be made in this suit a guilty man, an outlaw, not to be fed, not to be forwarded, not to be helped or harboured...
Page 339 - With heads of the slain; Spears blood-besprinkled For spindles we use, Our loom iron-bound, And arrows our reels; With swords for our shuttles This war-woof we work; So weave we, weird sisters, Our war-winning woof. Now war-winner walketh To weave in her turn, Now Sword-swinger steppeth, Now Swift-stroke, now Storm; When they speed the shuttle How spear-heads shall flash! Shields crash, and helm-gnawer On harness bite hard!
Page 176 - I will not go out," said Njal, "for I am an old man, and little fitted to avenge my sons, but I will not live in shame." Then Flosi said to Bergthora: "Come thou out, housewife, for I will for no sake burn thee indoors." "I was given away to Njal young," said Bergthora, "and I have promised him this, that we should both share the same fate.
Page 258 - ... all the steps and proofs have been brought forward which belong by law to this suit; all witness borne, the finding of the inquest uttered and brought in, witness taken to the finding, and to all the steps which have gone before; but if any such thing arises in their lawful defence which I need to turn into a suit against them, then I claim the right to set that suit on foot against them. I bid this my lawful bidding before the court, so that the judges may hear.
Page 328 - Sigurd not to go into the war, but it was all no good. So they parted on the understanding that Earl Sigurd gave his word to go; but King Sigtrygg promised him his mother and the kingdom. It was so settled that Earl Sigurd was to come with all his host to Dublin by Palm Sunday. Then King Sigtrygg fared south to Ireland, and told his mother Kormlada that the Earl had undertaken to come, and also what he had pledged himself to grant him. She showed herself well pleased at that, but said they must gather...
Page 86 - ... clear the court for a division, and the majority shall bind the rest; but if any man who has a seat in the court be outside the Court of Laws and cannot get inside it, or thinks himself overborne in the suit, then he shall forbid them by a protest, so that they can hear it in the court, and then he has made all their grants and all their decisions void and of none effect, and stopped them by his protest.
Page 138 - Then they went out, and Skarphedinn said, "Whither shall we go now ? " "To the booths of the men of Lightwater," said Asgrim. There Thorkel Foulmouth had set up his booth. Thorkel Foulmouth had been abroad and worked his way to fame in other lands. He had slain a robber east in Jemtland's wood, and then he fared on east into Sweden, and was a messmate of Saurkvir the Churl, and they harried eastward ho; but to the east of Baltic side...
Page 123 - This cloak, Flosi, thou gavest to Hauskuld, and now I will give it back to thee; he was slain in it, and I call God and all good men to witness, that I adjure thee, by all the might of thy Christ, and by thy manhood and bravery, to take vengeance for all those wounds which he had on his dead body, or else to be called every man's dastard.