Favorite Character of the Sagas

The variance of the sagas makes it difficult to choose a favorite character, but if I had to pick one who I most admired it would have to be Gisli Sursson. He is made into a hero in his saga with such maneuvers as catching spears mid-throw, as well as outsmarting a great many people who wished to do him in. Despite his outlawry, there were many people in Iceland who seemed to respect Gisli Sursson. This trait of righteous rebellion is very intriguing and warrants some great thought about his behavior otherwise. Gisli, his brothers (sworn and otherwise), and his in-laws were devoured by relationship drama, and throughout it all Gisli kept to the pact he had tried to make, he avenged the right deaths and properly buried all who deserved it. In doing so he also took the blame for killing a man whom he did not kill but had plenty of reason to. In a mess of unfaithfulness and slaughter, Gisli and his wife, Aud, remain true to each other and are each other's last motivations for living and holding their morals. For this reason, Aud is probably a second one of my favorite characters and female heroes.