Thorhall Asgrim

Njál's Saga

• attestation: Thorhall Asgrim's son and Kari rode to Mossfell to see Gizur the White and plan the legal case against the burners (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 134. Of Thorhall And Kari)

  "Thorhall Asgrim's son, and Kari Solmund's son, rode one day to Mossfell to see Gizur the White"

• relationship: Thorhall Asgrim's son, and Kari Solmund's son, rode one day to Mossfell to see Gizur the White; he took them with both hands, and there they were at his house a very long while. (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 134. Of Thorhall And Kari)

  "Thorhall Asgrim's son, and Kari Solmund's son, rode one day to Mossfell to see Gizur the White; he took them with both hands, and there they were at his house a very long while."

• attestation: Thorhall Asgrim's son advises his father to proceed lawfully and send word if they encounter difficulty (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 141. Now Men Go To The Courts)

  "Walk hastily in nothing father mine, and do everything as lawfully and rightly as ye can, but if ye fall into any strait let me know as quickly as ye can, and then I will give you counsel."

• attestation: Thorhall's face appeared blood-red and great teardrops gushed from his eyes as they departed (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 141. Now Men Go To The Courts)

  "his face was as though it were all blood, but great teardrops gushed out of his eyes."

• attestation: Thorhall possesses a spear that was a gift from Skarphedinn, described as his greatest treasure (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 141. Now Men Go To The Courts)

  "He bade them bring him his spear, that had been a gift to him from Skarphedinn, and it was the greatest treasure."

• relationship: Then Thorhall Asgrim addressed others in council (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 141. Now Men Go To The Courts)

  "Then Thorhall Asgrim's son said, "Walk hastily in nothing father mine, and do everything as lawfully and rightly as ye can, but if ye fall into any strait let me know as quickly as ye can, and then I will give you counsel."

Asgrim and the others looked at him, and his face was as though it were all blood, but great teardrops gushed out of his eyes."

• attestation: Thorhall finds the flaw in Eyjolf's challenge: the neighbours were challenged for kinship to Mord (the pleader) rather than kinship to the true plaintiff (the next of kin) (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 141. Now Men Go To The Courts)

  "he challenged them not for their kinship to the true plaintiff, the next of kin, but for their kinship to him who pleaded the suit"

• attestation: Thorhall instructs the messenger on how to defeat Eyjolf's second challenge, arguing that land ownership and dairystock equivalent qualify men for the inquest (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 141. Now Men Go To The Courts)

  "They will fare now as before, for they must have made a mistake, and I will soon upset their challenge"

• attestation: Thorhall instructs that Mord can rescue the suit by swearing that the greater part of the inquest was rightly summoned, paying fines for those wrongly summoned (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 141. Now Men Go To The Courts)

  "he shall bring that witness before the court, and then he may set the prosecution on its feet again; but he will have to pay a fine of three marks for every man that he has wrongly summoned"

• attestation: Thorhall recognizes Flosi's strategy to divide the Eastfirthers' Court and summon opponents to the Fifth Court for contempt (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 143. The Counsel Of Thorhall Asgrim'S Son)

  "I now see their course that they must mean to summon you to the Fifth Court for contempt of the Thing. They must also mean to divide the Eastfirthers Court in the suit for the burning, so that no judgment may be given"

• attestation: Thorhall instructs Mord to summon both Flosi and Eyjolf for bringing money into the Fifth Court (bribery) and for contempt of the Thing (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 143. The Counsel Of Thorhall Asgrim'S Son)

  "Mord must summon them both, both Flosi and Eyjolf, for having brought money into the Fifth Court, and make it a case of lesser outlawry."

• attestation: Thorhall explains that two suits for lesser outlawry against the same man result in thorough outlawry (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 143. The Counsel Of Thorhall Asgrim'S Son)

  "if two suits for lesser outlawry hang over one and the same man, that he shall be adjudged a thorough outlaw at once."

• attestation: Thorhall is so shocked by news that the suits will fail that he drives Skarphedinn's spear through his own boil-infected foot to purge it (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 144. Battle At The Althing)

  "He jumped up then from his bed, and clutched with both hands his spear, Skarphedinn's gift, and drove it through his foot; then flesh clung to the spear, and the eye of the boil too, for he had cut it clean out of the foot"

• attestation: Thorhall walks unhaltingly to the Fifth Court and immediately kills Grim the Red with his spear thrust through shield and body (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 144. Battle At The Althing)

  "Thorhall thrust at him with the spear, and smote him on the shield and clove it in twain, but the spear passed right through him, so that the point came out between his shoulders."

• relationship: Now the messenger comes to Thorhall Asgrim's son, and tells him how things stood, and how Mord Valgard's son and his friends would all be made outlaws, and the suits for manslaughter be brought to ... (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 144. Battle At The Althing)

  "Now the messenger comes to Thorhall Asgrim's son, and tells him how things stood, and how Mord Valgard's son and his friends would all be made outlaws, and the suits for manslaughter be brought to naught."