Characters / laxdaela
Thorstein the Black
Known as “the Black”. Status: auto-bootstrap
n=10
57Mentions
6Degree
0.0084Betweenness
0.01143PageRank
0.9294Closeness
0.267Clustering
2Community
1 / —First / death ch.
Narrative prominence
57Mentions
13Chapters present
12Dialogue turns
16Events involved
Kin
No parent/child links recorded.
Aliases
Thorstein the Black
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Relations and evidence
Kinship(3)
with Unn · weight 1 · ch. 4–4
“Unn the Deep-minded was in Caithness when her son Thorstein fell.”
with Dales · weight 1 · ch. 64–64
“Thorstein the Black and Svein, son of Alf o' Dales, stood before the door.”
with Alf · weight 1 · ch. 64–64
“Thorstein the Black and Svein, son of Alf o' Dales, stood before the door.”
Conversation(5)
with Helgi the Lean · weight 1 · ch. 64–64
“Helgi turned to meet him, and had a wood-axe in his hand, and said, "Still the old one will dare to look at and face weapons," and therewith he flung the axe at Thorgils, and the axe struck his foot, and a great wound that was.”
with Thorkell · weight 3 · ch. 75–76
“Thorstein said one day to Thorkell, they had better go to Herdholt, "for I want to make a bid for some land from Halldor, he having but little money since he paid the brothers the weregild for their father, and the land being just what I want most."”
“Thorstein then said he must know what he had to look forward to, and bade Halldor now come out of the shadow as to whether he was willing to come to the bargain.”
“Thorstein said, "He of us two will now follow the counsel that will answer the worst, for this journey will cause the happening of great matters."”
with Halldor · weight 2 · ch. 75–75
“Halldor answered, "I do not think I need keep you in the dark as to this point, that you will have to go home to-night without any bargain struck."”
“But when Thorstein spoke in this outrageous manner, Halldor leapt up so suddenly that the brooch was torn from his cloak, and said, "Something else will happen before I utter that which is not my will."”
with Halldor · weight 3 · ch. 75–75
“Then said Thorstein, "Nor do I think it needful to delay making known to you what we have in our mind to do; for we, deeming that we shall get the better of you by reason of the odds on our side, have bethought us of two choices for you: one choice is, that you do this matter willingly and take in return our friendship; but the other, clearly a worse one, is, that you now stretch out your hand against your own will and sell me the land of Herdholt."”
“"What is that?" said Thorstein.”
“After that they rode away and talked much together of this their journey; and Thorstein, speaking thereof, said that, truth to tell, their journey was most wretched.”
with Thorkell · weight 4 · ch. 75–76
“Thorkell answered, "That is an evil prophecy, and I hope it will not be fulfilled; and now I think there is ample cause why you, Halldor, should give up your land and have nothing for it."”
“Thorkell bade him not to do so, "for that is the greatest enormity at such a season as this; but when this season wears off, I shall not stand in the way of his and ours clashing together."”
“Thorkell answered, "Did you not see Beiner, who stood over you with the axe reared aloft?”
“Thorkell said the weather would do all right.”