Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow
Published on 5. August 2023
148 pages
978-1-5154-5721-3 (ISBN)
Description
Rolf is the son of Hiarandi the Unlucky. Hiarandi, at the urging of his wife, does an unforgivable thing: he lights a signal fire on a dangerous point of his land, challenging the accepted custom that place lucrative salvage at a higher value than the saving of life. However, the life that is saved that night causes his own death and the unjust outlawing of his son Rolf. This tale exemplifies the effect of Christ's teachings upon the Icelandic people during their heroic age.
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By Allen French
Content
- Intro
- Of the Lighting of the Beacon
- Of the Soursops, and the Curse Which Hung on Them
- Kiartan at Cragness
- Of Einar and Ondott
- The Summoning of Hiarandi
- Of What Hiarandi Should Do
- How Hiarandi Received the Lesser Outlawry
- Of Schemings
- Of the Outcome of Ondott's Plottings
- How Rolf named Witnesses for the Death of Hiarandi
- Of Rolf's Search for One to Surpass Him with the Bow
- Of the Trial of Skill at Tongue
- Of that Robber
- How Rolf and Einar Summoned Each Other
- Of Suits at the Althing
- The Act of Distress
- Rolf and Frodi Fare Abroad
- How Those Two Came into Thraldom
- Now Men Are Shipwrecked
- How Rolf Won His Freedom
- How Rolf Won the Viking's Bow
- Now Kiartan Returns
- Of the Coming of Earl Thorfinn
- Now Rolf and Grani Quarrel
- Here Rolf Comes to Cragness
- Of Grani's Pride
- Odd Doings at Cragness
- Of That Harvest Feast
- Of the Trial of Grani's Pride
- Of the Saying of those Two Words
