Hof

Hof is a farmstead in Iceland that serves as a recurring location in Njal's Saga, appearing across five chapters as a gathering point and residence connected to Mord Valgard's son and his father Valgard (Njal's Saga, Ch. 106). Characters travel to Hof repeatedly throughout the saga's feud narratives: parties go there to consult, regroup, and plan (Njal's Saga, Ch. 49; Ch. 78).

The farmstead takes on particular significance during the later stages of the saga. After the burning of Njal, pursuers "ride back, and all met at Hof and talked there among themselves, and said that they had gotten disgrace since they had not found them" (Njal's Saga, Ch. 130). When Thorgeir Craggeir gathers allies for vengeance, "they came to Hof, to Mord Valgard's son's house, and bided there till he was ready" (Njal's Saga, Ch. 136). Valgard himself "fared to Hof to his son Mord's house, and was there the winter over" (Njal's Saga, Ch. 106).