Quarter Court

Njál's Saga

• attestation: Quarter Court bestowed gifts upon Hill (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 8. Mord Claims His Goods From Hrut)

  "He laid the suit in the Quarter Court, into which it would come by law, and gave lawful notice, so that all who stood on the Hill of Laws might hear."

• attestation: Then he asked in what Quarter Court the suit lay, and in what house in the district the defendant dwelt. (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 72. Of The Suits For Manslaughter At The Thing)

  "Then he asked in what Quarter Court the suit lay, and in what house in the district the defendant dwelt."

• attestation: Every interacted with Quarter Court in a significant exchange (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 102. The Wedding Of Hauskuld, The Priest Of Whiteness)

  "Every suit in this court shall be pleaded just as is now done in the Quarter Court, save and except that when four twelves are named in the Fifth Court, then the plaintiff shall name and set aside six men out of the court, and the defendant other six; but if he will not set them aside, then the plaintiff shall name them and set them aside as he has done with his own six; but if the plaintiff does not set them aside, then the suit comes to naught, for three twelves shall utter judgment on all suits."

• attestation: Quarter Court interacted with Hill in a significant exchange (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 140. Of The Declarations Of The Suits)

  "I give notice of this suit in the Quarter Court into which it ought by law to come; I give notice of this lawful notice; I give notice of it in the hearing of all men on the Hill of Laws; I give notice of this suit to be pleaded this summer, and of full outlawry against Flosi Thord's son."