Geirþjófsfjörðr

Geirthjofsfjord is the remote Westfjords fjord where the outlaw Gísli builds his last hiding-places and makes his final stand. Through the long years of his outlawry he shelters here, in dugouts and secret refuges among the steep fells, sustained by the unbreakable loyalty of his wife Aud; and it is here, cornered at last by his hunters, that he fights his magnificent last battle on the heights, killing and wounding many before he falls with a defiant verse on his lips. Geirthjofsfjord is the saga's image of the outlaw's last ground — the lonely northern fjord that shelters a hunted man for years and witnesses his unbroken end, the wild refuge where loyalty and doom meet, and where Gísli, run to earth, dies as he lived: cornered but unconquered.