Then Flosi

Njál's Saga

• relationship: Then Flosi spake thus to the sons of Sigfus, "In what way shall I stand by you in this quarrel, which will be most to your minds?" "Nothing will please us," said Gunnar Lambi's son, "until those br... (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 123. An Attack Planned On Njal And His Sons)

  "Then Flosi spake thus to the sons of Sigfus, "In what way shall I stand by you in this quarrel, which will be most to your minds?"

"Nothing will please us," said Gunnar Lambi's son, "until those brothers, Njal's sons, are all slain."

"This," said Flosi, "will I promise to you, ye sons of Sigfus, not to part from this quarrel before one of us bites the dust before the other."

• attestation: Then Flosi made a statement to Flosi (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 127. The Onslaught (1) On Bergthorsknoll)

  "Then Flosi said, "Now we will go straight up to the house, and keep close, and walk slow, and see what counsel they will take."

Njal stood out of doors, and his sons, and Kari and all the serving-men, and they stood in array to meet them in the yard, and they were near thirty of them."

• attribution: Then Flosi is described: Then Flosi and his men made a great pile before each of the doors, and then the women folk who were inside began to weep and to wail. (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 128. Njal'S Burning)

  "Then Flosi and his men made a great pile before each of the doors, and then the women folk who were inside began to weep and to wail."

• attestation: Then Flosi came up and hewed at Helgi's neck, and took off his head at a stroke. (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 128. Njal'S Burning)

  "Then Flosi came up and hewed at Helgi's neck, and took off his head at a stroke."

• attestation: Then Flosi went to the door and called out to Njal, and said he would speak with him and Bergthora. (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 128. Njal'S Burning)

  "Then Flosi went to the door and called out to Njal, and said he would speak with him and Bergthora."

• attestation: Then Flosi bade them cease shooting, "for all feats of arms will go hard with us when we deal with them; ye may well wait till the fire overcomes them." So they do that, and shoot no more. (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 128. Njal'S Burning)

  "Then Flosi bade them cease shooting, "for all feats of arms will go hard with us when we deal with them; ye may well wait till the fire overcomes them."

So they do that, and shoot no more."

• attestation: Then Flosi declared: "Can this be law?" (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 141. Now Men Go To The Courts)

  "Then Flosi said to Eyjolf, "Can this be law?"

Eyjolf said he had not wisdom enough to know that for a surety, and then they sent a man to Skapti, the Speaker of the Law, to ask whether it were good law, and he sent them back word that it was surely good law, though few knew it."

• attestation: Then Flosi and Eyjolf tried to divide the court, and there they stayed, and lost time over that while the summoning at the Hill of Laws going on. (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 143. The Counsel Of Thorhall Asgrim'S Son)

  "Then Flosi and Eyjolf tried to divide the court, and there they stayed, and lost time over that while the summoning at the Hill of Laws going on."

• relationship: Then Flosi made a statement to Flosi (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 148. Of Flosi And The Burners)

  "Then Flosi said, "We will ride east to Hornfirth; for there that ship is laid up, which is owned by Eyjolf Nosy, a man from Drontheim, but he wants to take to him a wife here, and he will not get the match made unless he settles himself down here."