The Njál's Saga on Thorgeir Craggeir

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 136. Of Thorgeir Craggeir

• attestation: Thorgeir Craggeir rode from the east with his brothers Thorleif Crow and Thorgrim the Big to support the burning case

  "Thorgeir Craggeir rode from the east with much people. His brothers were with him, Thorleif Crow and Thorgrim the Big"

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 140. Of The Declarations Of The Suits

• attestation: Thorgeir Craggeir declares suit against Glum Hilldir's son for taking fire to Bergthorsknoll and burning Njal, Bergthora, and others inside

  "I give notice of a suit against Glum Hilldir's son, in that he took firing and lit it, and bore it to the house at Bergthorsknoll, when they were burned inside it, to wit, Njal Thorgeir's son, and Bergthora Skarphedinn's daughter"

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 144. Battle At The Althing

• attestation: Thorgeir Craggeir hews Thorwalld with Skarphedinn's axe 'the ogress of war,' cleaving shield and body

  "Thorgeir hewed the shield and cleft it from top to bottom, but the upper horn of the axe made its way into his breast, and passed into his trunk, and Thorwalld fell and was dead at once."

• attestation: Thorgeir Craggeir urges Kari to kill Eyjolf to avenge the gold ring bribe

  "Look, yonder now is Eyjolf Bolverk's son, if thou hast a mind to pay him off for the ring."

• attestation: Thorgeir Craggeir asks Kari to ride with him; they ride north with Gudmund, exchanging gifts

  "Thorgeir Craggeir asked Kari to go along with him, but yet first of all they rode with Gudmund right up to the fells north."

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 145. Of Kari And Thorgeir

• attestation: Thorgeir kills one man with a back-blow of his axe hammer to the skull, then hews off Thorkell Sigfus' son's shoulder and arm

  "Thorgeir lifted the axe, "the ogress of war," with both hands, and dashed the hammer of the axe with a back- blow into the head of him that stood behind him, so that his skull was shattered to small bits."

• attestation: Thorgeir kills Leidolf the Strong with the ogress of war, and Kari cuts off Leidolf's leg at mid-thigh

  "Thorgeir had hewn with "the ogress of war," holding it with both hands, and the lower horn fell on the shield and clove it in twain, but the upper caught the collarbone and cut it in two and tore on down into the breast and trunk. Kari came up just then, and cut off Leidolf's leg at mid-thigh"

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > Endnotes:

• attestation: Thorgeir's surname Craggeir derives from his feat of killing seven men in the sea crags

  ""Sea crags." Hence Thorgeir got his surname "Craggeir.""

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 146. The Award Of Atonement With Thorgeir Craggeir

• attestation: Thorgeir and Kari greet Hall warmly at Holt, kissing him and seating him in the high seat

  "Thorgeir went to meet him, and helped him off his horse, and both he and Kari kissed him and led him in between them into the sittingroom, and sate him down in the high seat on the dais"

• attestation: Thorgeir gives Hall a gold ring and Kari gives him a silver brooch with four gold crosses

  "Thorgeir gave Hall a gold ring and a scarlet cloak, but Kari gave him a silver brooch, and there were hung to it four crosses of gold."

• attestation: Thorgeir stipulates that Flosi alone shall be answerable for all fines from the burners

  "my will is that Flosi alone shall be answerable for them to me, but he must get them in from his followers."

• attestation: Thorgeir neither gives up the banishment nor the outlawry as part of the atonement

  "Thorgeir neither gave up the banishment nor the outlawry."