The Eyrbyggja Saga on Kiartan
Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 40 - Of Biorn, The Champion Of The Broadwickers, And His Dealings With Thurid Of Frodis-Water.
- attestation: A man was fatally wounded at the assembly and bled out in a copse, where young Kiartan dipped his axe in the blood
"one man from the Northcountry-men was brought to his death, and he was borne into a copse that was on the ere, and much blood ran from his wounds, and there stood a pool of blood in the copse. There was the youngling Kiartan, the son of Thurid of Frodis-water, with a little axe in his hand; he ran to the copse, and dipped the axe in the blood"
Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 50 - Of Thorgunna And How She Came To Frodis-Water.
- attestation: Kiartan was thirteen or fourteen years old, physically large and handsome
"Kiartan was by then of thirteen or fourteen winters, and was both great of growth, and noble to look on"
Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 53 - Now Men Die At Frodis-Water, More Wonders.
attestation: Kiartan alone was able to drive the seal back down by hammering it repeatedly with a sledge-hammer
"the swain Kiartan ran thereto, and took up a great sledge- hammer and smote on the seal's head, and great was that blow"
attestation: All the hauntings at Frodis-water feared Kiartan more than anyone else
"so indeed it fell out the winter through, that all the portents dreaded Kiartan the most of all."
Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 54 - The Death Of Thorod Scat-Catcher; The Dead Walk At Frodis-Water.
attestation: Kiartan and Thurid organized a funeral feast using the Yule ale as the arvale provisions
"Kiartan and Thurid bade their neighbours to the arvale, and their Yule ale was taken and used for the arvale."
attestation: Kiartan devised a solution of maintaining two fires: a long fire for the ghosts and a smaller meal-fire for the living
"Kiartan gave counsel to make a long fire in the fire-hall, and meal-fires in another chamber. So was it done, and this availed thus much, that Thorod and his folk sat by the long fire and the home-men by the little fire"
Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 55 - A Door-Doom At Frodis-Water.
attestation: Kiartan sought counsel from Snorri the Priest at Holyfell, who was his mother's brother
"Kiartan went east unto Holyfell to go see Snorri the Priest, his mother's brother, and asked rede of him what he should do in the matter of those wonders"
attestation: Kiartan burned all of Thorgunna's bed-gear using brands from the fire
"Kiartan went in straightway and saw how Thorod and his folk sat by the fire as their wont was. So he took down Thorgunna's bed-gear, and went into the fire-hall, and caught up brands from the fire, and went out therewith, and then was all the bed-array burned"
Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 56 - Of Snorri The Priest And The Blood-Suit After Stir.
- attestation: Kiartan of Frodis-water, Snorri's nephew, intercepted Thorstein and the two fought long and hard
"Kiartan of Frodis-water, Snorri's sister's son, ran before him, and Thorstein and he fought long together, and their weapon-play was exceeding hard-fought."
Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 64 - The Last Tidings Of Biorn The Champion Of The Broadwickers.
- attestation: The sword was intended for Kiartan the goodman of Frodis-water, and the ring for Thurid, Kiartan's mother
""If it befall thee to come back to thy fosterland, then shalt thou deliver this sword to that Kiartan, the goodman at Frodiswater; but the ring to Thurid his mother.""