Tie Your Shoes

It is related in Njáls Saga that in the battle of Clontarf, as the defeated Vikings fled the victorious Irish, Thorstein Sidu Hall’s son stopped to tie his shoelace and was captured. Kerthialfad asked him why he had not fled. “I can’t get home tonight,” replied Thorstein. “I live in Iceland.” For this Kerthialfad spared his life.