Chapter 77 Nyar Sakya

Among the many Icelandic sagas, the most moving one is "Njjar saga". These days, I flip through it casually to read it carefully, and I am constantly subjected to suffocating spiritual collisions.It is very strange why a French scholar wrote a book on Vikings a few years ago, when talking about Sakya, he only introduced "Egil Sakya" and "Saumon Valley Sakya", but left it? The current Curator of Icelandic Ancient Books and Manuscripts, Mr. Westain Olasson, once revealed the basic values ​​expressed by Sakya in this way: the world is full of dangers, and its inherent problems are enough to destroy good people with good hearts , but it allows people to live with dignity and take responsibility for themselves and those close to them.

This obviously timeless concept is epically displayed in "Niyarsakya".At this moment, in order to avoid the increasingly severe cold wind, I am hiding behind a rock pillar at the former site of the Thingwedley Council with my neck shrunk and my shoulders folded. I am reliving these words of Mr. Orazon, and I cannot bear to leave immediately with my companions. I kept thinking: Is this exactly where Nijal and his friends such as Gunnar and Flossy stood? "Nyar Saga" did not let these main characters appear at the beginning, but introduced an Icelandic legal expert named Moder at that time.In an age without written law, it was believed that no judgment would be valid without Maude's participation.Maud, then, is the supreme representative of the Valley of the Thingvelli Council.Once this identity is determined, the next thing will become more and more symbolic.

Maude, who represents the law, can make authoritative judgments on various major events in the country, but he can't handle his daughter's marriage well.Although the terms of his daughter's marriage and later divorce were settled in the Thingvelli Council, although he himself has been sitting condescendingly on this legal stone.Here the son-in-law proposed to fight him. He knew that he was no match, so he flinched. The people ridiculed, ridiculed at the submission of the law to force, and soon Maud died of illness. After him there appeared a man also named Maude, which I think is another symbolic arrangement of the anonymous sakya author.This Maude is obviously a villain, but he is also proficient in the law. He likes men who can kill each other the most, and if he can't kill each other, he must try to arrange a battlefield for them.Since then, many evil things have been related to him.Could it be that the villain is the inevitable supplement and natural continuation of the law?

Now that the plot in the story is already symbolic, please allow me to say a few more plots, because only through the behavior of these historical figures that did exist, can we touch the temperature of the Icelandic land and understand today’s European civilization It's hard to come by.The old Maude, who represented the law and was afraid of violence, left behind a daughter. This daughter asked her relative Gunnar for help, and Gunnar asked his wisest friend Niyar for advice. In this way, the two main The characters appear.Sure enough, Niyar designed a detailed and precise behavior program for Gunnar, and the friendship between the two of them became closer.

All pure and noble friendships are dangerous, because they are neither tolerated by others nor cherished by family members. Once the jealous people provoke them, cracks will appear in unexpected places. Because of their friendship, the two families of Niyal and Gunnar had frequent exchanges, and because of their frequent exchanges, there were a lot of unexpected entanglements among wives, children, and servants.As a result, there were more and more troubles with each other, and even the two masters were on the verge of falling out again and again, and became the men who killed each other that Maude liked.Fortunately, they were tall and tall, refused to provoke, and maintained their friendship by giving in to each other. Until Gunnar was killed by others, Niyaer was in great grief.

The relationship between these two men has made people see that in Iceland at that time, the ultimate pursuit of men was honor, and the main symbol of honor was revenge regardless of success or failure.Friendship arises in the mutual aid of revenge, and exists in the cracks of revenge, just like the fire that ignites in the wind corridor, it will be extinguished anytime and anywhere. On the edge of the pool of blood of revenge, some wise men began to build another kind of honor, which belongs to reason and peace, restraint and order, but once built, it is always opposed to the old-fashioned honor.Niyal and Gunnar have been struggling between these two honor systems for a long time. They have the crying of relatives, real corpses and eloquent instigation in front of them. torment.

They have realized that as long as they can't bear it a little bit, they will return to the old-fashioned honor side, they will be cheered personally, and the world will never have peace; Swallow your breath. This grievance cannot be expressed. They have left the Altyn Assembly in silence again and again, and may have casually glanced at the legal stone under my feet. They have added weight to it with their own humiliation. The death of Gunnar did not end Niyaer's mental struggle. He met another warrior, Flossie, who was both friend and foe, and became a relative by marriage. Maude, the jealous and provocateur, made a fuss about the newlyweds of the two families. As a result, the groom was killed innocently, and the bride demanded revenge. The two families of Niyar and Flossy became sworn enemies.

Niyar had expected this direction long ago, but he couldn't avoid it, and was finally surrounded by the fire ignited by Flossy.Flossie wanted to let the Niyals escape but was refused. After Nijar's death, Flossy and others were tried again at the legal stone of Alting, and the judge was still Maude.Only a few people vaguely suspect that the murder that was the cause of the incident, the one who stabbed the key knife may be Maud who is now appearing as a judge. The trial was a tug-of-war with no right and wrong, new violence emerged one after another, and Flossy intentionally or unintentionally took a boat that was no longer seaworthy to go to sea, and there was no news again.

In fact, in the early stage of the development of the situation, Niyar and Flossy have repeatedly predicted with worry: it will be difficult to have peace from now on.In fact, everything they have experienced has revealed people's hesitation in choosing violence. For example, at the beginning of an Altin conference, Niyar announced on the legal stone that he was entering legal proceedings, and many people said: Even the cases that have been tried have no results, and we would rather use the sword to express our demands. Niyaer immediately objected, saying: You must not do that. If there is no law in this land, there will be no good results.

Such a macro judgment comes from a well-informed elder, and it cannot but make those young people who would rather use the sword to express their demands hesitate.But at the same time, people are hesitant to choose peace and law, and there are reasons for hesitation. You can see that it didn't take long before this law stone displayed a large pile of silver that the Niyal family compensated Flossy. Niyal, who is proficient in the law, added another piece of silver Silk robe.But he did not expect that this addition exceeded the number of judgments, making the legal compensation suddenly have an extra-legal gift.Therefore, Flossie was immediately aware of it, suspected that it contained humiliation, and refused to pay compensation, grabbed the silk robe and slammed it hard, and began to take violent actions outside the law, pushing the soothing situation back into crisis.

People can blame Niyal for his unnecessary actions, but what needs to be paid more attention to is why the psychological atmosphere at the judicial scene is so fragile?In my opinion, this kind of fragility belongs to all the tough people who are just moving towards order. For a moment he confused the distinction between personal goodwill and legal dignity, and the wise Niyar paid the price with the lives of his whole family.He was able to escape and not escape because he felt disgraced in two respects: as far as the old honor was concerned, he was powerless to avenge his sons; lift up. In fact, there is another level that he can't deal with, and that is the villain who wanders between violence and law repeatedly emphasized by the Sakya author.Especially the Maude we often meet, who is not only jealous, provocative, and murderous, but also an eternal judge.With people like this crowded in the middle, all bad things will come out, and no good things will survive, and no good people will live long.It is no wonder that after Niyaer was killed, a warrior named Kali sighed: Kill with your mouth, and live a long life. But Cary couldn't catch those who killed people with their mouths, at least he couldn't find any evidence to present to Alting. He only knew the difference between heroes and clowns, and only knew that the law was powerless before this difference.Standing up with a sword in front of the law stone, he decided to use traditional violence to change the direction of people's ridicule, and then use his life to commemorate the world of poetry and flowers that cannot be defended by law or violence. He chant a few lines on the Law Stone: The warriors would not stop fighting, while the poet Scafferty crouched behind his shield and was stabbed. The fearless hero on his back is dragged into the clown's room by the cooks. When the sailors on the ship mocked the burned Nijal, Grim, and Helge they made a huge mistake. Now, on the heather-studded hills, after the convention, the jeers turn that way. The conference he was talking about was Alting, and Alting had to speak with swords that year.The lava I'm stepping on now should remember how much blood was soaked here that year. Many heroes, warriors, and killers sailed away after taking a quick lead in Iceland, just like their ancestors came to Iceland after they could not gain a foothold on the European continent.After they returned to the European Continent this time, many people converted to Christ, and some even obtained religious absolution, including Cary, and the Artin was still held here every year until the end of the eighteenth century when European civilization had already matured. . Like all ancient folk civilizations in the world, today's Alting site is far behind the main European civilization at first glance, but it demonstrates in the most open way the conflict between rational pursuits and emotional pursuits, good impulses and evil thoughts in human nature. The vortex of impulse, the interplay between the desire for life and the desire for order. No wonder Scott, Wagner, Hemingway, Borges and others were so excited when they read Sakya.They only regretted that the sea was dangerous and the land was barren, so they could not come here to have a look.