Characters / laxdaela
Gest
Status: auto-bootstrap
freq=44, chapters 33-?, no qualifier evidence
44Mentions
5Degree
0.0315Betweenness
0.01418PageRank
1.0818Closeness
0.100Clustering
0Community
33 / 66First / death ch.
Narrative prominence
44Mentions
5Chapters present
7Dialogue turns
23Events involved
Kin
No parent/child links recorded.
Aliases
Gest
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Relations and evidence
Kinship(2)
with Thorunn · weight 1 · ch. 33–33
“He got ready to leave early in the morning, for the journey was a long one and he meant to get to Thickshaw in the evening to Armod, his brother-in-law's, who had for wife Thorunn, a sister of Gest's.”
with Thord the Low · weight 1 · ch. 66–66
“That same winter Gest Oddliefson fell ill, and as the sickness grew heavy on him, he called to him Thord the Low, his son, and said, "My mind forebodes me that this sickness will put an end to our living together.”
Conversation(7)
with Gudrun · weight 6 · ch. 33–33
“Gudrun came to the spring and greeted her relative, Gest, warmly.”
“Gudrun said, "I have dreamt many dreams this winter; but four of the dreams do trouble my mind much, and no man has been able to explain them as I like, and yet I ask not for any favourable interpretation of them."”
“Gudrun said, "I thought I stood out of doors by a certain brook, and I had a crooked coif on my head, and I thought it misfitted me, and I wished to alter the coif, and many people told me I should not do so, but I did not listen to them, and I tore the hood from my head, and cast it into the brook, and that was the end of that dream."”
“Gudrun still spoke: "This is the third dream, I thought I had a gold ring on my hand, which I thought belonged to me, and I thought my loss was now made good again.”
with Gudrun · weight 4 · ch. 33–36
“Gest received the message well, and thought it a very manly offer, but said he must ride on now as he had purposed.”
“Gest said, "Tell me your dreams, it may be that I can make something of them."”
“He answered, "I must ride on now as I have made up my mind.”
“After that Gest Oddleifson went to see Hallstein, and gave him choice of two things, either that he should send away these wizards or he said that he would kill them, "and yet it comes too late."”
with Olaf · weight 4 · ch. 33–33
“Olaf greeted him well and asked him in with all his followers.”
“Olaf greeted him well and asked him in with all his followers.”
“Olaf greeted him well and asked him in with all his followers.”
“Then said Olaf: "Never is there too much said about your wits, Gest, knowing, as you do, men you have never seen before.”
with Olaf · weight 2 · ch. 33–33
“Gest looked at these young men for a while, and told Olaf where Kjartan was sitting as well as Bolli, and then Gest pointed his spear shaft to each one of Olaf's sons and named by name all of them that were there.”
“Gest replied, "That will fall out much in keeping with your own love, for Kjartan will be the most highly accounted of so long as he lives."”
with Thord the Low · weight 2 · ch. 33–33
“A little while after Thord the Low rode up to his side, and said, "What has now come to pass, father, that you are shedding tears?"”
“A little while after Thord the Low rode up to his side, and said, "What has now come to pass, father, that you are shedding tears?"”
with Thord the Low · weight 1 · ch. 33–33
“Gest answered, "It is needless to tell it, yet I am loath to keep silence on matters that will happen in your own days.”
with Hallstein · weight 1 · ch. 36–36
“Hallstein made his choice at once, and bade them rather be off, and put up nowhere west of Daleheath, adding that it was more justly they ought to be slain.”
Support(1)
with Gudrun · weight 1 · ch. 33–33
“Gest gave her a good welcome, and they began to talk together, both being wise and of ready speech.”