"From there they went on to Flotshlid and preached the [new] faith. The strongest opposition came from Vetrlidi the Poet and his son Ari; so they killed Vetrlidi. This verse was composed about it:
The tester of shields came south
To bring home the tools of war
To the the prayer-forge
In the poet-warrior's breast.
Then the tester of battle-faith
Brought the hammer of death
Crashing down on the anvil
Of Vertrlidi's head."
Njal's saga 102 (trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (London: Penguin Books, 1960), 219-220). Original (which I know nothing about) from the critical edition upon which the above translation is based: Brennu-Njáls saga, ed. Einar Ól. Sveinsson (Reykjavík : Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1954), .
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