Kol Þorsteinsson

Kol Thorsteinsson is the last of the burners Kári hunts down — the final blood-debt of the great feud, paid far from Iceland. After the Burning of Njáll, Kári pursues the burners one and two at a time across the country and over the sea; Kol is run to ground at the very end of the long vengeance, slain in Wales, closing the blood-account that began at Bergþórshváll. His killing is the last stroke before Kári's wandering vengeance gives way at length to reconciliation. Kol is the saga's image of the final reckoning — the last guilty man, caught and killed in a foreign land, whose death completes the long tally Kári has carried across the world. With him the debt of the Burning is at last fully paid, and the way is open for the storm-driven reconciliation between Kári and Flosi that ends the greatest of the sagas.