Fame And Glory Could Not Always Be So Good

I really liked one maxim that Njal said to Gunnar “and though you have been much tried, you will be tried much more, because many men will envy you.” Pg.52 What Njal is talking about in this case is that once you get fame and glory people will try to defeat you. When a person is regarded as one of the best fighters everyone will try to defeat him in a duel. If you defeat a very important person in anything you will also gain fame and glory. It is as if you drained from him a bit of his fame. For example if there is a tennis player that his rank is a hundred and he has a match against a player that his rank is one the most probable outcome is that number one will defeat the other player. What if the player who is in rank a hundred defeats number one? The one that is in rank hundred will gain more fame because he defeated number one and number one will lose a bit of fame because he lost to a player ranked in a hundred. Another part in the book that makes reference to what fame and glory is when Gunnar seeks the hand of Hallgerd. When Gunnar went to Hoskuld to ask Hallgerd’s hand I thought that he would reject it because Gunnar and Hrut’s family had had a conflict between them. The reaction is the opposite and when he asks Hrut what he thinks he responds “But rather that I see you cannot restrain yourself. Even if we didn’t make a marriage agreement, we would still want to be your friends.” Pg54 Hrut and Hoskuld want to be friends of Gunnar even though they had a quarrel between them. This looks like id Hoskuld and Hrut had forgiven Gunnar, but I think that when Gunnar became very famous they wanted to become allies with him and not fight him. Fame and glory can also lead to your death. If you have too much fame and glory as a warrior everyone will seek to fight you, and in one of those fights you might get killed. This can also have similarities to what Jesus said that when one searched to be exalted one would be humbled, but if one searched to be humble he will be exalted. So in conclusion too much fame and glory can also lead you to death.