Characters / laxdaela
Kjartan
Status: auto-bootstrap
freq=314, chapters 13-?, no qualifier evidence
316Mentions
18Degree
0.2146Betweenness
0.04063PageRank
1.1420Closeness
0.137Clustering
0Community
13 / —First / death ch.
Narrative prominence
316Mentions
21Chapters present
37Dialogue turns
70Events involved
Kin
No parent/child links recorded.
Aliases
Kjartan
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Relations and evidence
Kinship(4)
with Olaf · weight 1 · ch. 28–28
“Kjartan, Olaf's son, grew up at home at Herdholt.”
with Thorvald · weight 1 · ch. 31–31
“Their son was Kjartan, father of Thorvald, the father of Thord, the father of Snorri, the father of Thorvald, from whom is sprung the Waterfirth race.”
with Bolli · weight 1 · ch. 41–41
“Bolli made up his mind to journey with Gizor and Hjalti, and went to Kjartan, his kinsman, and said, "I am now ready to depart; I should wait for you through the next winter, if next summer you were more free to go away than you are now.”
with Salmon · weight 1 · ch. 45–45
“Hall greeted Kjartan, his uncle, with the greatest blitheness.”
Marriage(1)
with Hrefna · weight 1 · ch. 45–45
“And now they had a parley between them on this affair, and Kjartan wooed Hrefna, Asgeir's daughter.”
Conversation(25)
with Thorstein the Red · weight 2 · ch. 40–40
“Kjartan told Thorstein in secret that his chief errand to the south then was, that he wished to buy the half of Kalf's ship, "for I have set my mind on going abroad," and he asked Thorstein what sort of a man he thought Kalf was.”
“Kjartan said it would speed well enough.”
with Bolli · weight 8 · ch. 40–40
“When Olaf heard of this arrangement he said he thought Kjartan had made up his mind rather suddenly, but added that he would not foreclose the matter.”
“Bolli answered, "I don't think I am a match for him."”
“Bolli replied, "That you may do if you like."”
“"I certainly am not willing thereto," said Bolli, "for their faith seems to me to be most feeble."”
with Gudrun · weight 4 · ch. 40–44
“A little later Kjartan rode to Laugar to tell Gudrun of his proposed journey abroad.”
“Kjartan said, "Do not let this displease you.”
“Kjartan said, "That cannot be, your brothers are unsettled yet, and your father is old, and they would be bereft of all care if you went out of the land; so you wait for me three winters."”
“Kjartan said he would stay at home and look after the household.”
with Gudrun · weight 4 · ch. 40–46
“Gudrun said, "You have decided this very suddenly, Kjartan," and she let fall sundry words about this, from which Kjartan got to understand that Gudrun was displeased with it.”
“Gudrun said, "Be then a man of your word, for I shall speedily let you know what I want."”
“Gudrun said she would promise nothing as to that matter, and each was at variance with the other, and therewith they parted.”
“Then Gudrun answered his speech and said, "Now you rake up a fire which it would be better should not smoke.”
with Bolli · weight 10 · ch. 40–49
“Kjartan asked Bolli if he felt willing to try swimming against the townsman.”
“"I cannot think where your courage can now have got to," said Kjartan, "so I shall go and try."”
“Then Kjartan began to speak, and said to Bolli, "How far are you willing, kinsman, to take this new faith the king preaches?"”
“Kjartan said, "Did ye not think the king was holding out threats against those who should be unwilling to submit to his will?"”
with Asgeirson · weight 2 · ch. 41–41
“Kjartan said, "I have been thinking chiefly that we had better take our ship to England, where there is a good market for Christian men.”
“Then Kalf went away and Kjartan went to speak to the king, greeting him courteously.”
with Olaf · weight 4 · ch. 43–47
“Then King Olaf said, "I must not take back my word, Kjartan, yet my order pointed rather to other men than to yourself, for in my view you, Kjartan, have been more of a friend than a hostage through your stay here.”
“Olaf asked Kjartan to go and stay with him, with as many of his men as he liked to bring.”
“After that Olaf got ready to go to the feast at Laugar at "winter nights," and told Kjartan he must go too.”
“Kjartan did not tell his father the reason of his journey, and Olaf asked but little about it.”
with Olaf · weight 3 · ch. 43–46
“Then Kjartan answered, "May our Lord reward you, sire, for all the honours you have bestowed on me since I came into your power, but I am still in hopes that you will give leave to me, no less than to the others you have kept back for a while."”
“Kjartan took that well, and said that there only of all places in Iceland he meant to abide.”
“Kjartan was very unwilling thereto, but promised to go at the bidding of his father.”
with Ingibjorg · weight 2 · ch. 43–43
“She gave him a cheery welcome, and made room for him to sit beside her, and they fell a-talking together, and Kjartan tells Ingibjorg that he has arranged his journey to Iceland.”
“And now Kjartan went away and unto the king, and told the king he now was ready for his journey.”
with Ingibjorg · weight 1 · ch. 43–43
“Then Ingibjorg said, "I am minded to think, Kjartan, that you have done this of your own wilfulness rather than because you have been urged by men to go away from Norway and to Iceland."”
with Asgeir · weight 1 · ch. 44–44
“Kjartan bade his sister Thurid have such of his wares as she liked, and the same Kalf said to Hrefna.”
with Hrefna · weight 2 · ch. 44–46
“Then Hrefna answered, "Most people take it that you are in no hurry to marry, and also that the woman you woo, you will be sure to get for wife."”
“Hrefna now told Kjartan that the coif was lost.”
with Hrefna · weight 2 · ch. 44–47
“Kjartan said it would not matter much whom he married, but he would not stand being kept long a waiting wooer by any woman.”
“Kjartan answered, and coloured up, and it was easy to see he was angry with her for making a mockery of this.”
with Gudmund · weight 1 · ch. 44–44
“Gudmund and Thurid asked Kjartan to come north to them for a friendly stay some time that winter, and Kjartan promised the journey.”
with Thurid · weight 2 · ch. 44–45
“Gudmund and Thurid asked Kjartan to come north to them for a friendly stay some time that winter, and Kjartan promised the journey.”
“In the evening Thurid asked Kjartan how he liked the manner in which Hrefna turned her speech.”
with Gudmund · weight 1 · ch. 44–44
“Gudmund and Thurid asked Kjartan to come north to them for a friendly stay some time that winter, and Kjartan promised the journey.”
with Thorgerd · weight 1 · ch. 46–46
“"Goodwife," Thorgerd said, "whenever will you take out such a peerless keepsake if it is to lie down in chests when you go to feasts?"”
with Thorarin · weight 4 · ch. 47–47
“Kjartan said he must ride back again in the morning, but would tarry there for some time.”
“Thorarin asked his errand, and Kjartan said, "My errand here is to speak about a certain sale of land that you and Bolli have agreed upon, for it is very much against my wishes if you sell this land to Bolli and Gudrun."”
“Kjartan said, "You shall come in for no loss even if Bolli does not buy your land; for I will buy it at the same price, and it will not be of much avail to you to speak against what I have made up my mind to have done.”
“Kjartan said, "I do not call that a sale of land which is not bound by witnesses.”
with Thorarin · weight 2 · ch. 47–47
“Thorarin said that to do otherwise would be unbecoming to him, "For the price that Bolli has offered for the land is liberal, and is to be paid up speedily."”
“Thorarin answered, "Mighty to me will be the master's word in this matter, but it would be most to my mind that this bargain should be left alone as I and Bolli have settled it."”
with Thorhalla · weight 2 · ch. 47–47
“She asked Kjartan where he was minded to go.”
“"Would you do an errand for me?" said Thorhalla.”
with Thorhalla · weight 2 · ch. 47–47
“Kjartan replied, "I am going by Saelingsdale to the west, and by Swinedale from the west."”
“Kjartan promised to do this.”
with Aud · weight 1 · ch. 48–48
“Then Aud said, "There is no need to mock so much at this; and my counsel is that Kjartan do one of two things: either tarry here longer, or, if he will ride away, then let him ride with more followers hence than hither he did."”
with Aud · weight 1 · ch. 48–48
“Kjartan said, "You may hold An 'brushwood belly' a man very sage as he sits and talks to you all day, since you think that whatever he dreams must be a very vision, but go I must, as I have already made up my mind to, in spite of this dream."”
with Thorkell · weight 1 · ch. 48–48
“Thorkell said they would ride to the end of the dale.”
with Whelp · weight 1 · ch. 48–48
“Then Kjartan said, "Never will Bolli, my kinsman, join hands with plotters against my life.”
Conflict(1)
with Bolli · weight 1 · ch. 49–49
“Then Bolli drew Footbiter, and now turned upon Kjartan.”