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	Gizur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gizur, Gizurr or Gissur was a wise King of the Geats.
		Gizur was the foster-father of Heidrek, who made a coup-d'état in Reidgotaland, the land of the Goths (see Oium and the Chernyakhov culture).
		During the battle, the old Gizur slays the Hun king Humli, but Hlöd arrives and splits Gizur in two with one slash of his sword.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gizur (272 words)

	Northvegr - A History of the Vikings
		For behind the mission of Gizur and Hjalti there was unmistakably the sanction of Olaf Tryggvason's might, and this for a country so dependent as was Iceland upon the goodwill of Norwegian traders was formidable indeed.
		But ecclesiastical administration was made easier by the appointment in 1056 of Isleif, son of Gizur the White, as bishop, for a native had advantages in the matters of language and authority that were denied to the foreign prelates.
		Gizur Isleifsson, therefore, is a noble figure in Icelandic history, one of those rare political princes of the Church whose temporal power was no less than their spiritual authority.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/history_viking/075.php (977 words)

	H. Rider Haggard : Eric Brighteyes : XXXIII. How Eric and Skallagrim Fought Their Last Great Fight
		Now Gizur's folk, seeing what had come about, took heart and fell upon Eric with a rush, and those who were with the dead thrall rushed at Skallagrim, and there began such a fight as has not been known in Iceland.
		Gizur smites him with his sword, but Eric does not stay, and while men wait and wonder, Brighteyes sweeps him into his great arms--ay, sweeps him up, lifts him from the ground and reels on.
		Then she caused the sails to be hoisted, and went alone aboard the long ship, the rails of which were hung with the shields of the dead men.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.1586/sec.35 (3359 words)

	www.northwest.is
		In 1253 the enemies of Gizur tried to kill him by burning down his house during wedding feast of his son.
		Gizur escaped harm by hiding in a barrel of skyr (sour yoghurt) but all of his sons and his wife died.
		Glaumbær is a farm in Seyluhreppur (rural district) and there is the Glaumbær Museum with exhibitions in a turf house mostly from the 18th century, although the houses are of different ages.
	www.northwest.is /1sogulegirstadir2.asp (2412 words)

	OMACL: The Story of Burnt Njal: Part 5: Sections 72 - 86
		Gizur stood looking north, and calls his witnesses, and bade Gunnar to listen to his oath, and to his declaration of the suit, and to all the steps and proofs which he meant to bring forward.
		Then Gizur the White said, "Let us press on harder; nothing comes of our onslaught." Then they made a third bout of it, and were long at it, and then they fell off again.
		But Gizur said, "I know not why thou wilt speak of that which no one else wishes, and that shall never be." Just then Thorbrand Thorleik's son, sprang up on the roof, and cuts asunder Gunnar's bowstring.
	omacl.org /Njal/5part.html (7238 words)

	Eric Brighteyes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gizur, led by Swanhild, who has him tightly under control, tries to waylay them, but fails.
		Gizur and Swanhild enter the largely empty hall at Middalhof (most of their following are with the ship), and on the orders of Swanhild Gizur stabs Gudruda, thinking he is killing Eric.
		Swanhild puts the bodies on the slain in a longship, with Eric, Skallagrim, and Gizur in the positions of eminence, and this is sailed out to sea with herself standing on the prow.
	www.geocities.com /noelcox/Eric_Brighteyes.htm (1034 words)

	OMACL: The Story of Burnt Njal: Part 8: Sections 118 - 129
		Gizur stood up to meet them, and bade them sit down and drink.
		What help shall I have from thee, as thou art my kinsman?" "Jorunn, my sister," said Gizur, "would wish that I should not shrink from standing by thee; and so it shall be now and hereafter, that we will both of us have the same fate." Asgrim thanked him, and went away afterwards.
		It will be known to all of you that Mord took up the suit, but the truth of the matter is, that Mord was at Hauskuld's slaying, and wounded him with that wound, for giving which no man was named.
	omacl.org /Njal/8part.html (5718 words)

	Saints of May 28
		Bishop Gizur divided the nation into two dioceses: Skaholt in the southwest and Holar in the north.
		Gizur introduced tithes and provided for the poor, carrying out a taxation census to make this policy possible.
		Foreign priests were soon replaced by native ones after Gizur the White, who had been one of the first to accept baptism, was consecrated bishop.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0528.htm (1892 words)

	H. Rider Haggard : Eric Brighteyes : XXVIII. How Swanhild Won Tidings of Eric
		She was weary of the courting of Gizur, whom she played with as a cat plays with a rat, and her heart was sick with love, hate, and jealousy.
		Now Swanhild touched Gizur on the arm, pointing first to the man who sat eating the fish and then to the spear in Gizur's hand.
		So Gizur cast the spear, and it passed through the man's heart, and he was dead at once.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.1586/sec.30 (3524 words)

	BattleReports.com
		Gizur let out a muffled squeal of surprise, which turned to incoherent sounds of terror as Glum placed the blade of the knife in Gizur’s mouth at the back of his tongue, and sliced it off, as if he were gathering himself a helping of butter.
		Gizur’s complexion, which had been sickly green, now turned ghostly white, and he made no attempt to do as Glum ordered.
		Choking, Gizur began to stumble, and was about to fall over, until Glum grabbed him by his hair, and withdrawing his knife from Gizur’s mouth, slashed open his left eye with it.
	www.battlereports.com /viewreports.php?reportnum=2450 (5348 words)

	History guide for Iceland by Hostelbookers
		Back in Norway, Thangabrand's unfavourable reports infuriated Ólafur, who was only prevented from executing all Icelanders in the country by the Icelandic chieftain Gizur the White, who promised to champion the new religion at home.
		Gizur mustered his forces and rode to the Alþing in 1000, where civil war was only averted by the lawspeaker Þorgeir, who – having made pagan and Christian alike swear to accept his decision – chose Christianity as Iceland's official religion, though pagans were initially allowed to maintain their beliefs in private.
		Gizur the White's son Ísleifur became Iceland's first bishop in 1056, and his homestead at Skálholt near Þingvellir was made the bishop's seat, with a second, northern diocese founded in 1106 at Hólar.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/europe/iceland/73827 (283 words)

	Northvegr - Njal's Saga
		Thou shalt challenge Gizur the White to combat on the island, if they do not leave the whole award to thee; but Kolskegg shall challenge Geir the Priest.
		Gizur and his friends went to Gunnar's booth; their coming was known, and Gunnar was told as he sat in his booth, and then they all went out and stood in array.
		Then Hrut and Hauskuld were sent for, and they came thither, and then Gizur the White and Gier the Priest took their oaths; but Gunnar made his award, and spoke with no man about it, and afterwards he uttered it as follows:
	www.northvegr.org /lore/njal/019.php (1333 words)

	Eric Brighteyes eBook
		“Gizur did not slay me—he murdered Gudruda the Fair as she lay asleep at my side.
		The heart of Skallagrim was broken because of the sorrow which his drunkenness had brought about, and the heart of Eric was buried in Gudruda’s grave.
		On Mosfell Eric found four of his own men, two of whom had been among those that the people of Gizur and Swanhild had driven from Gudruda’s ship before they fired her.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/2721/179.html (507 words)

	Burnt Njal: 138. Of Asgrim, And Gizur, And Kari
		Then Gizur spoke to them, "Now has Mord Valgard's son, my son-in-law, undertaken a suit, which all must think most hard, to prosecute Flosi; and now my wish is that ye share the other suits amongst you, for now it will soon be time to give notice of the suits at the Hill of Laws.
		Skapti sat on the cross bench on the dais, and when he saw Gizur the White he rose up to meet him, and greeted him and all of them well, and bade Gizur to sit down by him, and he does so.
		Gizur thanked him kindly, and said that what he had said was just what they all needed, and then they all went out.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/ice/njal/njal138.htm (1191 words)

	Burnt Njal: 46. Of Gizur The White And Geir The Priest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		OF GIZUR THE WHITE AND GEIR THE PRIEST
		There was a man named Gizur the White; he was Teit's son; Kettlebjorn the Old's son, of Mossfell.
		Gizur the White kept house at Mossfell, and was a great chief.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/ice/njal/njal046.htm (182 words)

	Hæstiréttur Íslands
		When the Supreme Court began its activities in 1920, the custom of justices and attorneys dressing in special robes for case hearings was adopted, reputedly at the suggestion of the first Supreme Court attorneys, Eggert Claessen and Sveinn Björnsson, who later was to become the first President of Iceland.
		The first four sat together on the Supreme Court through the years 1945-1960, along with Árni Tryggvason, and most of them held the office considerably longer.
		Gizur Bergsteinsson has served the longest as a Supreme Court justice, 36 years and five months, and he was also the youngest person to be appointed to the Supreme Court at age 33.
	www.haestirettur.is /baeklingur/page10 (161 words)

	Reflections on Great Literature: Icelandic Epics
		Eventually peace is made with Gizur the White and his kinsman Geir the Priest at the Thing.
		Gizur, Starkad, and a band of men come to his house and besiege it, and Gunnar fights them off bravely, killing many men, but his wife Hallgerda's treachery gets him killed in the end.
		He is heard by his son Hogni and Njal's son Skarphedinn singing a battle song while dead in his cairn, and these two avenge him by slaying those at fault, except Mord from whom they gain an atonement.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~lahtid/literature/norse/icelandic/njal.htm (2859 words)

	Chapter six: Ordered Anarchy, State and Rent-Seeking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bishop Gizur was loved more intensely by the whole population, than any other man, to our knowledge, has ever been in this country.
		As a result of his popularity, and his and Sæmundur's recommendations, and by the advice of Markús the lawspeaker, a law was passed that everyone should count and appraise his property; and swear that the evaluation was correct, whether land or chattels, and then pay tithes thereof.
		Bishop Gizur is not only credited with establishing the Church as an institution, i.e.
	www.hi.is /~bthru/kafli6.htm (9795 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Books, Criticism & Writing > Njal's Saga - and hopefully others...
		Gunnar saw a red tunic at the window and he made a thrust with his halberd and hit Thorgrim in the waist.
		The Norwegian lost his grip on his shield, his feet slipped and he fell off the roof and then walked to where Gizur and the others were sitting on the ground.
		Gizur looked at him and spoke: 'Well, is Gunnar at home?'
	www.barbelith.com /topic.php?id=2812 (4385 words)

	Old Norse Online
		Then he went back to the rest, Gizur among them, where they sat on the ground.
		Then Gizur the Fair said, "Let's press harder -- nothing comes of us." Then they made a third attempt and were at it a while; after that they retreated.
		Gunnar said, "An arrow is sitting out there on the wall, and it's one of their arrows; I'll shoot it at them, and it'll be a shame if they take a hit with their own weapons."
	www.utexas.edu /cola/centers/lrc/eieol/norol-4.html (3659 words)

	Amazon.com: Eric Brighteyes: Books: H. Rider Haggard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But in the morning they are attacked while still asleep, for Swanhild secretly guides Gizur into their bedchamber and directs his hand to the killing of Eric.
		But it is to Gudruda's fair head she guides the sword which Gizur holds and not to Eric's so that when Eric wakes he finds his beloved dead in his arms.
		In the end only Swanhild is left to supervise the funeral arrangements on board the viking ship she has selected for this purpose and to sing the death song, as she and the bodies of Eric and his faithful servant Skallagrim burn on a pyre of those men they have slain between them.
	www.amazon.com /Eric-Brighteyes-H-Rider-Haggard/dp/0821710427 (2226 words)

	The Cârnford Chronicles - Chapter 4
		We sought the aid of Gizur to help us restore Schiolàn and Bob, as he was the most powerful and possibly most friendly spell caster we had encountered.
		However, we were met by a being that was known to Gizur, named Angus.
		He returned us to the world of Cârnford and gave us instruction from Gizur to go to the Druid's Keep and ask to pass through a pair of standing stones contained therein (if these stones had a specific name, then I have forgotten it).
	home.insight.rr.com /jmbeach/carnford/chap04.html (1668 words)

	Eric Brighteyes by Haggard, H. Rider - Chapter 28 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		was weary of the courting of Gizur, whom she played with as a cat
		"Gizur, go thou with the man and see if his tale is true.
		dirt and wet with water, was Gizur, and with him was the thrall.
	www.literaturepost.com /chapter/10020.html (3106 words)

	NjalCom44-56
		-- At Skamkel's urging, he refuses; he then refuses self-compensation and says he will consult Gizur the White first.
		-- Hrut advises Gunnar to challenge Gizur to a duel.
		-- Meanwhile, Gizur and Geir goði draw lots to see who will undertake the dangerous task of bringing suit in the death of Otkel; it falls to Geir.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng446/njalcom44-56.html (611 words)

	Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck
		That year, after being in Norway for four years, Gizur was made a jarl by Haakon and returned to Iceland.
		In 1261 it was learned that Greenland had agreed to pay tribute to Norway, and the next year at the Althing Gizur was reconciled with Hrafn as the Gizur Covenant was passed.
		The Gizur Covenant allowed administrators to collect twenty ells from each thing-tax-payer for Norway's king, who agreed to let Icelanders enjoy their own laws under his jarl and to send six ships each summer.
	www.san.beck.org /AB21-Europe13thCentury.html (23696 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gizur Wormfeeder agreed, then drew his sword to defend with Liebnitz' Floating Block.
		He'd seen the Ginsu Slash before, just before he'd lost his third leg, and he knew what his chances were against someone who could execute it properly.
		Gizur returned to the Demonic Center of Aleut and collapsed in a heap before the Demonic Regency Throne.
	www.csua.berkeley.edu /~erikred/jon3.html (2232 words)

	Arheimar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Huns then proceeded to ravage and burn throughout the land.'' Arheimar is mentioned for the last time, when the Geatish King Gizur has arrived with his army from Scandinavia to fight for the Goths, and tells the Huns where they and the Goths are to meet the Huns in battle.
		Hlöd demeans Gizur by calling him an Ostrogoth (Gryting) and Angantyr's man from Arheimar, and not a King of the Geats: :''When Hlöth heard Gizur's words, he cried:'' ::-''Lay hold upon Gizur of the Grytingar'' Angantyr's man, who has come from Arheimar!
		The King asked him if he had parleyed with the Huns.'' :''Gizur replied: ::-''I spoke with them and I challenged them to meet us on the battle-field of Dunheith'' (i.e.
	arheimar.iqnaut.net (345 words)

	NjalCom133-145 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		-- Gizur advises Kari and Þorgeir and Skorar-Geir to go to Morð and force him to take over the suit.
		-- Gizur threatens to take back his daughter Þorkatla, and Morð agrees to take the suit.
		-- Gizur and others try to garner support.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng446/njalcom133-145.html (387 words)

	Vikings and Feudal Europe 900-1095 by Sanderson Beck
		Gizur the White was one of the first godar to be baptized by Thangbrand, and Gizur's son Isleif was educated in Germany and became Iceland's first bishop (1056-1080).
		Isleif was succeeded by his son Gizur Isleifsson (1082-1118), who introduced tithing to help the poor, and he made the first reliable census of farmers for taxing.
		In 982 Greenland was explored and named by Erik the Red, who had been banished from both Norway and Iceland for manslaughter.
	www.san.beck.org /AB17-FeudalEurope.html (23987 words)

	CHAPTER XXIX - HOW WENT THE BRIDAL NIGHT - Online Book Title: Eric Brighteyes - Author: H. Rider Haggard (Sir Henry ...
		Then Gizur must follow, and presently he stood beside her in the room,
		Presently, while Gizur stands as one in a dream, she rises, saying: "I
		So Gizur gives her his hand and they pass thence.
	www.readbookonline.net /read/248/7782 (3176 words)

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