Örnólfsdalr

Ornolfsdale is Blund-Ketil's homestead, burned by Hen-Thorir's band in Hænsa-Þóris saga — and one of the corpus's images of decency destroyed by spite. The generous, well-loved chieftain Blund-Ketil lives here; and here, after he takes hay by need to save his neighbours' starving stock (leaving fair payment), the miserly Hen-Thorir's wounded pride drives him to surround the house and burn the good man alive within it. The burning of a generous chieftain over a load of hay sets the whole saga's feud ablaze. Ornolfsdale is the saga's image of the burned home of the wronged — the homestead where a decent man's generosity, in a grasping neighbour's eyes, became the offence that got him killed, the hearth turned to a pyre that lights the long reckoning of the saga.