Vigfúss

Vigfús is Víga-Glúm's Norwegian grandfather — a great chief of the old country, and the source of the luck-tokens on which Glúm's whole fortune will rest. When the young Glúm, slighted and underestimated in Iceland, sails to Norway to claim his kinship, it is the aging Vigfús who acknowledges him and, before he dies, gives him the inherited treasures that carry the family's luck — a cloak, a spear, and a gold-inlaid sword. As long as Glúm keeps these tokens and the favour that comes with them, he cannot be beaten; their eventual loss is the loss of his power. Vigfús is the saga's image of the ancestral source of luck — the great grandfather across the sea whose gifts carry a family's fortune in physical form, the old chief whose blessing and heirlooms make the grandson, and whose tokens, once they pass out of Glúm's hands, unmake him.