The Njál's Saga on Skapti Thorod's son

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 102. The Wedding Of Hauskuld, The Priest Of Whiteness

• attestation: Skapti Thorod's son, the Lawspeaker, questioned how a Fifth Court could be constituted given the existing priesthood structure

  ""How," said Skapti, "wilt thou name a Fifth Court, when the Quarter Court is named for the old priesthoods, three twelves in each quarter?""

• attestation: Skapti Thorod's son formally established the Fifth Court as law along with all Njal's provisions

  "After that, Skapti Thorod's son brought the Fifth Court into the law, and all that was spoken of before."

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 138. Of Asgrim, And Gizur, And Kari

• attestation: Skapti Thorod's son refuses to help Gizur and Asgrim with the burning suit, calling the quarrel none of their business

  ""This quarrel," says Skapti, "is no business of thine, except thou choosest to be entangled in it along with them.""

• attestation: Skapti reproaches Gizur for having overcome Gunnar of Lithend and Asgrim for slaying his foster-brother Gauk

  "thou, Gizur the White, because thou overcamest Gunnar of Lithend; but Asgrim, for that he slew Gauk, his foster-brother."

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 141. Now Men Go To The Courts

• attestation: Skapti the Lawman confirms Mord's legal procedure is good law and admits he thought only he and Njal knew it

  "More men are great lawyers now," says Skapti, "than I thought. I must tell thee, then, that this is such good law in all points, that there is not a word to say against it; but still I thought that I alone would know this, now that Njal was dead"