the Fair Isle.
Kari was that winter in Caithness. In this winter his housewife
died out in Iceland.
The next summer Kari busked him for Iceland. Skeggi gave him a
ship of burden, and there were eighteen of them on board her.
They were rather late “boun,” but still they put to sea, and had
a long passage, but at last they made Ingolf’s Head. There their
ship was dashed all to pieces, but the men’s lives were saved.
Then, too, a gale of wind came on them.
Now they ask Kari what counsel was to be taken; but he said their
best plan was to go to Swinefell and put Flosi’s manhood to the
proof.
So they went right up to Swinefell in the storm. Flosi was in
the sittingroom. He knew Kari as soon as ever he came into the
room, and sprang up to meet him, and kissed him, and sate him
down in the high seat by his side.
Flosi asked Kari to be there that winter, and Kari took his
offer. Then they were atoned with a full atonement.
Then Flosi gave away his brother’s daughter Hildigunna, whom
Hauskuld the priest of Whiteness had had to wife to Kari, and
they dwelt first of all at Broadwater.
Men say that the end of Flosi’s life was, that he fared abroad,
when he had grown old, to seek for timber to build him a hall;
and he was in Norway that winter, but the next summer he was late
“boun”; and men told him that his ship was not seaworthy.
Flosi said she was quite good enough for an old and deathdoomed
man, and bore his goods on shipboard and put out to sea. But of
that ship no tidings were ever heard.
These were the children of Kari Solmund’s son and Helga Njal’s
daughter — Thorgerda and Ragneida, Valgerda, and Thord who was
burnt in Njal’s house. But the children of Hildigunna and Kari,
were these, Starkad, and Thord, and Flosi.
The son of Burning-Flosi was Kolbein, who has been the most
famous man of any of that stock.
And here we end the STORY of BURNT NJAL.
