One word and we must bring this introduction to an end; it is merely to point out how calmly and peacefully the Saga ends, with the perfect reconciliation of Kari and Flosi, those generous foes, who throughout the bitter struggle in which they were engaged always treated each other with respect.  It is a comfort to find, after the whole fitful story has been worked out, after passing from page to page, every one of which reeks with gore, to find that after all there were even in that bloodthirsty Iceland of the tenth century such things as peaceful old age and happy firesides, and that men like Flosi and Kari, who had both shed so much blood, one in a good and the other in a wicked cause, should after all die, Flosi on a trading voyage, an Icelandic Ulysses, in an unseaworthy ship, good enough, as he said, for an old and death-doomed man, Kari at home, well stricken in years, blessed with a famous and numerous offspring, and a proud but loving wife.

  ICELANDIC CHRONOLOGY.

  A.D. 850.  Birth of Harold fairhair.
       860.  Harold fairhair comes to the throne.
       870.  Harold fairhair sole King in Norway.
       871.  Ingolf sets out for Iceland.
       872.  Battle of Hafrsfirth (Hafrsfjoeethr).
       874.  Ingolf and Leif go to settle in Iceland.
       877.  Kettle haeng goes to Iceland.
   880-884.  Harold fairhair roots out the Vikings in the west.
       888.  Fall of Thorstein the red in Scotland.
   890-900.  Rush of settlers from the British Isles to Iceland.
       892.  Aud the deeply wealthy comes to Iceland.
   900-920.  The third period of the Landnamstide.
       920.  Harold fairhair shares the kingdom with his sons.
       923.  Hrut Hauskuld’s brother born.
       929.  Althing established.
       930.  Hrafn Kettle haeng’s son Speaker of the Law.
   930-935.  Njal born.
       930.  The Fleetlithe feud begins.
       933.  Death of Harold fairhair.
       940.  End of the Fleetlithe feud; Fiddle Mord a man of rank;
              Hamond Gunnar’s son marries Mord’s sister Rannveiga.
       941.  Fall of King Eric Bloodaxe.
    c. 945.  Gunnar of Lithend born.
   955-960.  Njal’s sons born.
       959.  Glum marries Hallgerda.
       960.  Fall of King Hacon; Athelstane’s foster-child, Harold
              Grayfell, King in Norway.
       963.  Hrut goes abroad.
       965.  Hrut returns to Iceland and marries Unna Mord’s daughter.
       968.  Unna parts from Hrut.
       969.  Fiddle Mord and Hrut strive at the Althing; Fall of King
              Harold Grayfell; Earl Hacon rules in Norway.
   970-971.  Fiddle Mord’s death; Gunnar and Hrut strive at the Althing.
       972.  Gunnar of Lithend goes abroad.
       974.  Gunnar returns to Iceland.
       974.  Gunnar’s marriage with Hallgerda.

975.  The slaying of Swart.

976.  The slaying of Kol.