The Lack Of Forgiveness

We have all experienced disappointment. Sometimes people do things that hurt us, and we aren’t able to forgive them. When someone can’t forgive, revenge starts accumulating. You can have revenge many ways. Sometimes people take revenge in their hands and actually make a whole big plan to have revenge. This is very common in movies, it has become very cliché. Other times people leave revenge in faith’s hands, just as Hoskuld and Hrut did in Njal’s Saga. When Gunnar reclaims the money from the two brothers, Hoskuld says “bad things will only be your reward for this” (pag.42). Gunnar doesn’t seem worried and says “things will go as they must.” “It will be avenged against him, but the vengeance and the credit, for it will not be ours. It’s likely in fact, the he will return for our friendship.” (page. 43)
Its funny because in a way, Unn received her vengeance. Her land was taken from the brothers and now it was taken from them. So what the book is showing us is that vengeance is a cycle, a cycle created because we aren’t able to forgive and forget.