Bláskógar (Bluemire)

Bluemire is Howard the Halt's poor steading in the Westfjords — the humble home where the lamed old yeoman lies sunk in grief and helplessness after the murder of his son. Once a viking, now crippled and broken, Howard takes to his bed here for years, unable to win justice against the untouchable chief who killed his boy — until his fierce wife Bjargey rouses him at last to the vengeance the law would not give. Bluemire is the saga's image of the broken man's hearth — the poor Westfjords stead where a grieving old man lies helpless, the low place from which, against every expectation, a crippled yeoman and a steel-willed wife rise to set right a wrong that the powerful thought safely beyond answer. The humble home of the corpus's most unlikely vengeance.