to get revenge on someone, to take vengeance on someone
çekim: geçmiş launaði lambið gráa
köken: From the saga of Heiðarvíga. In the year 1000, a man named Styr had just killed the farmer Þórhalli from Jörfi who had two children; Áslaug and Gestur. His son Gestur was a weak and backward child, who was not likely to avenge his father's death. Still Styr decided to recompense Gestur for the patricide with a grey heimalningur (“home-fed lamb”). Later however (in the year 1007-1008) Gestur…