Characters / laxdaela
Melkorka
Status: auto-bootstrap
freq=27, chapters 13-?, no qualifier evidence
27Mentions
4Degree
0.0157Betweenness
0.01294PageRank
1.0702Closeness
0.333Clustering
3Community
13 / —First / death ch.
Narrative prominence
27Mentions
6Chapters present
4Dialogue turns
21Events involved
Kin
No parent/child links recorded.
Aliases
Melkorka
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Relations and evidence
Kinship(2)
with Olaf · weight 4 · ch. 20–22
“Melkorka, Olaf's mother, lived at Melkorkastead, as has been told before.”
“Hoskuld looked less after Melkorka's household ways than he used to do, saying that that matter concerned Olaf, her son.”
“Melkorka spoke to Olaf, her son, and said that she wished he should journey abroad to find his noble relations, "For I have told the truth that Myrkjartan is really my father, and he is king of the Irish and it would be easy for you betake you on board the ship that is now at Board-Ere."”
“Melkorka came soon to see Olaf, her son, and Olaf greeted her with great joy.”
with Lambi · weight 1 · ch. 22–22
“Melkorka and Thorbjorn had one son, who was named Lambi.”
Conversation(4)
with Hoskuld Koll's son · weight 2 · ch. 13–20
“Hoskuld said she had kept silence far too long about so noble a descent.”
“Hoskuld looked less after Melkorka's household ways than he used to do, saying that that matter concerned Olaf, her son.”
with Olaf · weight 6 · ch. 20–22
“Melkorka spoke to Olaf, her son, and said that she wished he should journey abroad to find his noble relations, "For I have told the truth that Myrkjartan is really my father, and he is king of the Irish and it would be easy for you betake you on board the ship that is now at Board-Ere."”
“Melkorka said, "I cannot bear your being called the son of a slave-woman any longer; and if it stands in the way of the journey, that you think you have not enough money, then I would rather go to the length even of marrying Thorbjorn, if then you should be more willing than before to betake yourself to the journey.”
“She asked about many things in Ireland, first of her father and then of her other relations.”
“Olaf replied to everything she asked.”
with Olaf · weight 5 · ch. 20–22
“Olaf said, "I have spoken about it to my father, but he seemed to want to have but little to do with it; and as to the manner of my foster-father's money affairs, it so happens that his wealth is more in land or cattle than in stores of islandic market goods."”
“Melkorka came soon to see Olaf, her son, and Olaf greeted her with great joy.”
“Olaf replied to everything she asked.”
“Olaf said she was still alive.”
with Hoskuld Koll's son · weight 1 · ch. 20–20
“She also put into his hands a knife and a belt, and bade him give them to her nurse: "I am sure she will not doubt these tokens."”
Conflict(1)
with Jorunn · weight 2 · ch. 13–13
“Melkorka got angry, and struck Jorunn on the nose with her fist, so that the blood flowed.”
“Melkorka got angry, and struck Jorunn on the nose with her fist, so that the blood flowed.”