It was considered a scandal in the land that pirates and berserks should be able to come into the country and challenge respectable people to the holmgang for their money or their women, no weregild being paid whichever fell.
For this reason jarl Eirik abolished all holmgang in Norway and declared all robbers and berserks who disturbed the peace outlaws.
Now Thorveig the spaewife went to see Holmgang Bersi and told him her trouble.
After that meeting, Holmgang Bersi went to see his brother.
After that, Cormac went one day to Reykir and talked with Skeggi, who said the holmgang had been brought to scorn.
Thorvard had not come to the holmgang when he had been challenged, and therefore the shame had fallen of itself upon him and his, and they must put up with it.
It was the law of the holmgang that the hide should be five ells long, with loops at its corners.
Thou art a young man and little tried; the holmgang needs craft and cunning, but sword-play, man to man, is an easy game.
Said Thorkel, "I bid thee to the holmgang at Orrestholm beside Tjaldanes (Tentness).
There was Holmgang Bersi, with seventeen more to sit at his wedding.
Things went on so for a while, and then Odd went to see Holmgang Bersi, and told him what had happened.
So Thorvard sought her out, to ask her help against Cormac, and gave her a fee; and she made him ready for the holmgang according to her craft.
Folk asked how the holmgang had gone, and when he told them they said that two bold men had struck small blows, and he had gained the victory only through Cormac's mishap.
Glum reckoned Thorarin to be foremost, but Odd said Holmgang Bersi was better than he in every way.
I turned and took Him in my arms, and holding Him to me, I whispered in a low voice, "You will fight holmgang here with me to-night.
Then rising, he commanded us both by name, his hands raised in the air and his white sleeves falling back from his bony forearms, to leave this holmgang or else we were cursed.
Now, this is how Wulnoth went holmgang with Hungwar the Dane, and slew him, and set Edgiva the Beautiful free; and this is how Guthrun and his host turned to the Lord Christ, and dwelt in the Danelagh.
Therefore cast aside thy club and come holmgang with me.
And this was the last holmgang fought in Iceland, this, wherein Gunnlaug and Raven fought.
All the kinsmen of Raven thought it great scathe when he went away, but he said he had challenged Gunnlaug to the holmgang because he could have no joy soever of Helga; and he said, withal, that one must fall before the other.
Then, holding this the greatest shame, he went on holmgang with Eric and was slain by him.
The chapman was not willing to give them place at first, for he, too, had heard the tale; but Skallagrim offered him choice, either to do so or to go on holmgang with him.
Thorunna nurse thee; but first name thou the two who shall stand against me in holmgang in Oxarà 's stream.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holmgang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
