Thorhillda
Wife of Thrain who exchanged heated words with Bergthora at a wedding feast in Njal's Saga.
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Thorhillda appears in Njal's Saga as the wife of Thrain. She and Bergthora, Njal's wife, had heated words at a wedding feast (Njal's Saga, §34 Of Thrain Sigfus' Son). This verbal exchange between the two women forms part of the escalating tensions between the households that drive much of the saga's middle narrative.
Njal's Saga
A single attestation places Thorhillda in the context of interpersonal conflict at a feast. The saga uses the exchange between Thorhillda and Bergthora as one of many triggers in the cascading feud that defines its central plot (Njal's Saga, §34).
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Njál's Saga, Norse Tradition