The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor

About this eBook

Author

Dasent, George Webbe, Sir, 1817-1896

Credits

E-text produced, edited, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings. Document scanning provided by David Reid and John Servilio

Language

English

LoC Class

PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

Subject

Njáll Þorgursson, approximately 930-1011

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Text

eBook-No.

597

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/597

Release Date

November 11, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE STORY OF BURNT NJAL — 1. OF FIDDLE MORD — ENDNOTES: — 2. HRUT WOOS UNNA — 3. HRUT AND GUNNHILLDA, KING'S MOTHER — 4. OF HRUT'S CRUISE — 5. ATLI ARNVID SON'S SLAYING — ENDNOTES: — 6. HRUT SAILS OUT TO ICELAND — 7. UNNA SEPARATES FROM HRUT — 8. MORD CLAIMS HIS GOODS FROM HRUT — 9. THORWALD GETS HALLGERDA TO WIFE — ENDNOTES: — 10. HALLGERDA'S WEDDING — 11. THORWALD'S SLAYING — 12. THIOSTOLF'S FLIGHT — 13. GLUM'S WOOING — 14. GLUM'S WEDDING — 15. THIOSTOLF GOES TO GLUM'S HOUSE — 16. GLUM'S SHEEP HUNT — 17. GLUM'S SLAYING — 18. FIDDLE MORD'S DEATH — 19. GUNNAR COMES INTO THE STORY — ENDNOTES: — 20. OF NJAL AND HIS CHILDREN — ENDNOTES: — 21. UNNA GOES TO SEE GUNNAR — 22. NJAL'S ADVICE — 23. HUCKSTER HEDINN. — ENDNOTES: — 24. GUNNAR AND HRUT STRIVE AT THE THING. — 25. UNNA'S SECOND WEDDING — ENDNOTES: — 26. OF ASGRIM AND HIS CHILDREN — ENDNOTES: — 27. HELGI NJAL'S SON'S WOOING — 28. HALLVARD COMES OUT TO ICELAND — ENDNOTES: — 29. GUNNAR GOES ABROAD — ENDNOTES: — 30. GUNNAR GOES A-SEA-ROVING — ENDNOTES: — 31. GUNNAR GOES TO KING HAROLD GORM'S SON AND EARL HACON — 32. GUNNAR COMES OUT TO ICELAND — 33. GUNNAR'S WOOING — 34. OF THRAIN SIGFUS' SON — 35. THE VISIT TO BERGTHORSKNOLL — 36. KOL SLEW SWART — ENDNOTES: — 37. THE SLAYING OF KOL, WHOM ATLI SLEW — 38. THE KILLING OF ATLI THE THRALL — 39. THE SLAYING OF BRYNJOLF THE UNRULY — 40. GUNNAR AND NJAL MAKE PEACE ABOUT BRYNJOLF'S SLAYING — 41. SIGMUND COMES OUT TO ICELAND — 42. THE SLAYING OF THORD FREEDMANSON — 43. NJAL AND GUNNAR MAKE PEACE FOR THE SLAYING OF THORD — 44. SIGMUND MOCKS NJAL AND HIS SONS — ENDNOTES: — 45. THE SLAYING OF SIGMUND AND SKIOLLD — ENDNOTES: — 46. OF GIZUR THE WHITE AND GEIR THE PRIEST — ENDNOTES: — 47. OF OTKELL IN KIRKBY — ENDNOTES: — 48. HOW HALLGERDA MAKES MALCOLM STEAL FROM KIRKBY — ENDNOTES: — 49. OF SKAMKELL'S EVIL COUNSEL — 50. OF SKAMKELL'S LYING — 51. OF GUNNAR — 52. OF RUNOLF, THE SON OF WOLF AURPRIEST — 53. HOW OTKELL RODE OVER GUNNAR — 54. THE FIGHT AT RANGRIVER — ENDNOTES: — 55. NJAL'S ADVICE TO GUNNAR — 56. GUNNAR AND GEIR THE PRIEST STRIVE AT THE THING — ENDNOTES: — 57. OF STARKAD AND HIS SONS — ENDNOTES: — 58. HOW GUNNAR'S HORSE FOUGHT — 59. OF ASGRIM AND WOLF UGGIS' SON — 60. AN ATTACK AGAINST GUNNAR AGREED ON — 61. GUNNAR'S DREAM — ENDNOTES: — 62. THE SLAYING OF HJORT AND FOURTEEN MEN — ENDNOTES: — 63. NJAL'S COUNSEL TO GUNNAR — 64. OF VALGARD AND MORD — 65. OF FINES AND ATONEMENTS — 66. OF THORGEIR OTKELL'S SON — 67. OF THORGEIR STARKAD'S SON — 68. OF NJAL AND THOSE NAMESAKES — 69. OLAF THE PEACOCK'S GIFTS TO GUNNAR — 70. MORD'S COUNSEL — 71. THE SLAYING OF THORGEIR OTKELL'S SON — ENDNOTES: — 72. OF THE SUITS FOR MANSLAUGHTER AT THE THING — 73. OF THE ATONEMENT — 74. KOLSKEGG GOES ABROAD — ENDNOTES: — 75. THE RIDING TO LITHEND — 76. GUNNAR'S SLAYING — ENDNOTES:
2. 2.77. GUNNAR SINGS A SONG DEAD — 78. GUNNAR OF LITHEND AVENGED — 79. HOGNI TAKES AN ATONEMENT FOR GUNNAR'S DEATH — 80. OF KOLSKEGG: HOW HE WAS BAPTIZED — ENDNOTES: — 81. OF THRAIN: HOW HE SLEW KOL — ENDNOTES: — 82. NJAL'S SONS SAIL ABROAD — 83. OF KARI SOLMUND'S SON — 84. OF EARL SIGURD — ENDNOTES: — 85. THE BATTLE WITH THE EARLS — 86. HRAPP'S VOYAGE FROM ICELAND — 87. THRAIN TOOK TO HRAPP — 88. EARL HACON FIGHTS WITH NJAL'S SONS. — 89. NJAL'S SONS AND KARI COME OUT TO ICELAND — 90. THE QUARREL OF NJAL'S SONS WITH THRAIN SIGFUS' SON — ENDNOTES: — 91. THRAIN SIGFUS' SON'S SLAYING — ENDNOTES: — 92. KETTLE TAKES HAUSKULD AS HIS FOSTER-SON — 93. NJAL TAKES HAUSKULD TO FOSTER — 94. OF FLOSI THORD'S SON — ENDNOTES: — 95. OF HALL OF THE SIDE — ENDNOTES: — 96. OF THE CHANGE OF FAITH — ENDNOTES: — 97. OF THANGBRAND'S JOURNEYS — ENDNOTES: — 98. OF THANGBRAND AND GUDLEIF — ENDNOTES: — 99. OF GEST ODDLEIF'S SON — 100. OF GIZUR THE WHITE AND HJALLTI — ENDNOTES: — 101. OF THORGEIR OF LIGHTWATER — ENDNOTES: — 102. THE WEDDING OF HAUSKULD, THE PRIEST OF WHITENESS — 103. THE SLAYING OF HAUSKULD NJAL'S SON — ENDNOTES: — 104. THE SLAYING OF LYTING'S BROTHERS — 105. OF AMUND THE BLIND — 106. OF VALGARD THE GUILEFUL — 107. OF MORD AND NJAL'S SONS — 108. OF THE SLANDER OF MORD VALGARD'S SON. — 109. OF MORD AND NJAL'S SONS — 110. THE SLAYING OF HAUSKULD, THE PRIEST OF WHITENESS — 111. OF HILDIGUNNA AND MORD VALGARD'S SON — 112. THE PEDIGREE OF GUDMUND THE POWERFUL — ENDNOTES: — 113. OF SNORRI THE PRIEST, AND HIS STOCK — ENDNOTES: — 114. OF FLOSI THORD'S SON — 115. OF FLOSI AND HILDIGUNNA — ENDNOTES: — 116. OF FLOSI AND MORD AND THE SONS OF SIGFUS — 117. NJAL AND SKARPHEDINN TALK TOGETHER — 118. ASGRIM AND NJAL'S SONS PRAY MEN FOR HELP — ENDNOTES: — 119. OF SKARPHEDINN AND THORKEL FOULMOUTH — 120. OF THE PLEADING OF THE SUIT — 121. OF THE AWARD OF ATONEMENT BETWEEN FLOSI AND NJAL — ENDNOTES: — 122. OF THE JUDGES — 123. AN ATTACK PLANNED ON NJAL AND HIS SONS — 124. OF PORTENTS — 125. FLOSI'S JOURNEY FROM HOME — ENDNOTES: — 126. OF PORTENTS AT BERGTHORSKNOLL — 127. THE ONSLAUGHT (1) ON BERGTHORSKNOLL — ENDNOTES: — 128. NJAL'S BURNING — 129. SKARPHEDINN'S DEATH — ENDNOTES: — 130. OF KARI SOLMUND'S SON — 131. NJAL'S AND BERGTHORA'S BONES FOUND — 132. FLOSI'S DREAM — 133. OF FLOSI'S JOURNEY AND HIS ASKING FOR HELP — ENDNOTES: — 134. OF THORHALL AND KARI — ENDNOTES: — 135. OF FLOSI AND THE BURNERS — 136. OF THORGEIR CRAGGEIR — 137. OF EYJOLF BOLVERK'S SON — ENDNOTES: — 138. OF ASGRIM, AND GIZUR, AND KARI — 139. OF ASGRIM AND GUDMUND — 140. OF THE DECLARATIONS OF THE SUITS — 141. NOW MEN GO TO THE COURTS — ENDNOTES: — 142. OF EYJOLF BOLVERK'S SON — 143. THE COUNSEL OF THORHALL ASGRIM'S SON — ENDNOTES: — 144. BATTLE AT THE ALTHING — ENDNOTES: — 145. OF KARI AND THORGEIR — ENDNOTES: — 146. THE AWARD OF ATONEMENT WITH THORGEIR CRAGGEIR — ENDNOTES: — 147. KARI COMES TO BJORN'S HOUSE IN THE MARK — 148. OF FLOSI AND THE BURNERS — 149. OF KARI AND BJORN — 150. MORE OF KARI AND BJORN — 151. OF KARI AND BJORN AND THORGEIR — 152. FLOSI GOES ABROAD — 153. KARI GOES ABROAD — 154. GUNNAR LAMBI'S SON'S SLAYING — 155. OF SIGNS AND WONDERS — 156. BRIAN'S BATTLE — ENDNOTES: — 157. THE SLAYING OF KOL THORSTEIN'S SON — 158. OF FLOSI AND KARI

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