Hauskuld Thrain's son
Patronymic: Hauskuld Thrain’s child. Status: curated
Foster-son of Njal; the Whiteness-priest; killed by Njal's sons.
Narrative prominence
Kin
Father: Thrain Sigfus' son. Mother: Thorgerda Glum's daughter.
Aliases
Curate this entity
Human-in-the-loop corrections. Actions here write to data/annotations/njala/revisions.jsonl and take effect the next time the pipeline runs — nothing changes on this page immediately.
Add a surface form you have manually verified refers unambiguously to this character.
Relations and evidence
Kinship(4)
with Thrain Sigfus' son · weight 1 · ch. 92–92
“"Long have I loved my brother Thrain much, and now I will show it, for I will ask Hauskuld Thrain's son to be my foster-child."”
with Njal Thorgeir's son · weight 1 · ch. 102–102
“Now we must take up the story, and say that Njal spoke thus to Hauskuld, his foster-son, and said--”
with Skarphedinn Njal's son · weight 1 · ch. 104–104
“After that Hauskuld fared home, and Njal's sons woke up as he went, and asked their father who had come, but he told them that his foster-son Hauskuld had been there.”
with Hauskuld Njal's son · weight 1 · ch. 123–123
“One day it happened that Rodny Hauskuld's daughter, the mother of Hauskuld Njal's son, came to the Springs.”
Conversation(5)
with Njal Thorgeir's son · weight 2 · ch. 93–102
“He was there that night, and in the evening Njal called out to the lad Hauskuld, and he went up to him at once.”
“Now we must take up the story, and say that Njal spoke thus to Hauskuld, his foster-son, and said--”
with Njal Thorgeir's son · weight 2 · ch. 102–104
“Njal said he would rather leave that to Hauskuld, but Hauskuld said that he put faith in many men, but in none so much as his foster-father.”
“"Hither am I come," said Hauskuld to Njal, "to beg a boon on behalf of Lyting, my uncle.”
with Lyting of Samstede · weight 1 · ch. 103–103
“It happened once that Lyting had a feast in his house at Samstede, and he had bidden thither Hauskuld and the sons of Sigfus, and they all came.”
with Mord Valgard's son · weight 1 · ch. 108–108
“A little while after Mord came to Ossaby and called Hauskuld out to talk with him, and they went aside and spoke.”
with Flosi Thord's son · weight 1 · ch. 108–108
“Then Flosi spoke to Hauskuld and said--”
Support(1)
with Flosi Thord's son · weight 1 · ch. 108–108
“Next harvest Hauskuld fared east to Swinefell to a feast, and Flosi gave him a hearty welcome.”