Loyalty

The relationship that Gunnar an Njal share is a friendship full of obstacles but it is nice to see how they overcome them just to stay being friends. It was very touching in my opinion when Njal tells Gunnar, “I’ll stand by you loyally as long as I live.” (p120) this shows that they really care for one another and no matter how many men Gunnar kills, Njal will always cover up for him and get out of trouble, and no matter how much their wives hate each other and begin a killing cycle, they will always manage things in a civilized way and that even if ones wife speaks wrongly of his friend and family, he will defend his friend even if it means sticking up to the wife. I think this loyalty is really good and we could even say convenient because it gets the two most powerful men of the area and unite them so they are now extraordinary in every aspect. It I s weird to think about the fact that one shares his life with people that will always be there for you and you don’t know right now who will support you and who wont and it’s just funny to know that your current best friend may later become an enemy and that a person with which not much contact is done, can actually turn out to be one of your most loyal friends of all.