Lögberg-Heimskringla - 19.10.1990, Side 4

4 • Lögberg - Heimskrlngla • Föstudagur 19. október 1990
Hafliði
by Einar Kvaran
Contlnued from our last Issue
One of the other fishermen helped
Ólafur to escape, and he was killed by
Már for his interference. Ólafur then
sought help from Þorgils Oddason in
this, dispute. Már tumed to Hafliði
Másson, who upbraided him for his
behavior and called him a disgrace to
his family. All this not with-standing,
Hafliði had no choice but to support his
nephew. Before long, Már had killed a
second man, and charges and counter
charges were brought against Már and
Ólafur.
At one of the many meetings held at
Alþingi to try to settle the dispute,
Hafliði carried an axe. This was not his
custom, and before he left for the en-
counter his wife, Rannveig, beggedhim
in vain to leave his axe at home. (Don’t
take your gun to town, son, don’t take
yourgun to town, a poet said centuries
later.) Duringthe confrontation, Hafliði
raised his axe, and Þorgils immediately
stmck at him with his own. The blow
cut off Hafliði’s middle finger com-
pletely and the end joints fr om his ring
Másson
and little fingers. When Hafliði re-
tumed home to his tent, he said to
Rannveig: “I have often known that I
am well married, and once again it has
been proven that you are a very wise
woman. You have now almost been
prescient, and I would nothave suffered
this humiliation, had I followed your
advice.”
Hafliði managed to have Þorgils
declared an outlaw for this. In the
following year, 1121, Hafliði showed
up at the Alþing with a following of
1400-1500 men. Þorgils also left for
Alþing with a large number of sup-
porters. As Þorgils was an outlaw,
Hafliði was adamant that he should
notbe allowedto attend Alþingi, where
he wouldbe granted sanctuary. Þorgils
was equally determined to do so, as he
insisted that he would make a peace
offering that would lead to a settlement
in the dispute. After a dramatic stand-
oflf, with the intervention of the Bishop
of Skálholt in the south and the future
Bishop of Hólar in the north, a settle-
ment wasfinallyreached. Hafliði would
not yield until the Bishop had threat-
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Þorgils was allowed to presenthis case
at Alþingi.
Haíliði was allowed to assess his
own damages, but the sentence of
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One of Þorgils’s retainers remarked:
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this is the price of one digit.”
The clergymen were praised for
having maintained the peace. In ret-
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forces faced each other ready to do
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