Tongue
Icelandic location between Holyfell and Lax-river, site of a violent sheep-folding incident in Eyrbyggja Saga.
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Tongue is a location in western Iceland, situated between Holyfell and Lax-river. At a sheep-folding at Tongue, Biorn struck Snorri's shepherd Helgi with a pike-staff (Eyrbyggja Saga, Chapter 23).
Eyrbyggja Saga
The sole attestation places Tongue in a specific geographic and narrative context: a thronged sheep-folding between Holyfell and Lax-river where a violent incident occurred (Eyrbyggja Saga, Chapter 23). The scene illustrates how everyday agricultural gatherings could become sites of conflict in saga-age Iceland.
Appears in: Cross-Source Entities, Places, Entities in Njál's Saga, Norse Tradition