Fifth Court

Njál's Saga

• attestation: Fifth Court made a statement to Court (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 102. The Wedding Of Hauskuld, The Priest Of Whiteness)

  "There, too, shall the Fifth Court sit; but if those who sit in the Court of Laws are not agreed as to what they shall allow or bring in as law, then they shall 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."

After that, Skapti Thorod's son brought the Fifth Court into the law, and all that was spoken of before."

• attestation: After that they traveled to the Fifth Court (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 143. The Counsel Of Thorhall Asgrim'S Son)

  "After that they went to the Fifth Court."

• attestation: Now he went out of the booth unhalting, and walked so hard that the messenger could not keep up with him, and so he goes until he came to the Fifth Court. (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 144. Battle At The Althing)

  "Now he went out of the booth unhalting, and walked so hard that the messenger could not keep up with him, and so he goes until he came to the Fifth Court."