The Njál's Saga on Thorgeir

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 64. Of Valgard And Mord

• attestation: Thorgeir visited Valgard and Mord to discuss the situation after the killings

  "Then Thorgeir went to see Valgard and Mord"

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 67. Of Thorgeir Starkad'S Son

• attestation: Thorgeir Starkad's son visited his namesake at Kirkby and they plotted secretly all day

  "Thorgeir Starkad's son fared to Kirkby to see his namesake, and they went aside to speak, and talked secretly all day"

• attestation: The two Thorgeirs conspired against Gunnar using their grievances over dead kinsmen

  "they went aside to speak, and talked secretly all day"

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 68. Of Njal And Those Namesakes

• attestation: Thorgeir Starkad's son learned Kolskegg had been in the isles for three nights and planned an attack

  "Now when Kolskegg and the house-carles had been three nights in the isles, Thorgeir Starkad's son had news of that"

• attestation: The namesakes coordinated their attack plans against Gunnar and his household

  "Thorgeir Starkad's son"

The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 101. Of Thorgeir Of Lightwater

• attestation: Thorgeir of Lightwater was the heathen Lawspeaker who was paid three marks of silver to decide the religious question

  "Hall went to Thorgeir, the priest of Lightwater, who was the old Speaker of the law, and gave him three marks of silver (2) to utter what the law should be, but still that was most hazardous counsel, since he was an heathen."

• attestation: Thorgeir lay all day under a cloak without speaking to anyone before delivering his decision

  "Thorgeir lay all that day on the ground, and spread a cloak over his head, so that no man spoke with him"

• attestation: Thorgeir declared that all men in Iceland must be Christian, believe in one God, and cease idol worship and child exposure

  ""This is the beginning of our laws," he said, "that all men shall be Christian here in the land, and believe in one God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, but leave off all idol- worship, not expose children to perish, and not eat horseflesh.""

• attestation: Thorgeir argued that if the laws were sundered the peace would be sundered and they could not live in the land

  ""if there be a sundering of the laws, then there will be a sundering of the peace, and we shall never be able to live in the land.""

• attestation: Violations done openly would bring outlawry but those done in stealth would be blameless, though this compromise was soon abolished

  ""It shall be outlawry if such things are proved openly against any man; but if these things are done by stealth, then it shall be blameless."

But all this heathendom was all done away with within a few years' space"

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

• relationship: Thorgeir descended from Thorir Tag through Kettle the Seal, Ornolf, and Grim Hairycheek to Kettle Haeing and Hallbjorn Halftroll

  "Kettle and Thorkel were both sons of Thorir Tag, the son of Kettle the Seal, the son of Ornolf, the son of Bjornolf, the son of Grim Hairycheek, the son of Kettle Haeing, the son of Hallbjorn Halftroll of Ravensfood."