Landnamabok Viking Settlers and Their Customs in Iceland by Carrie Overton & Ari Learned

Author:Carrie Overton & Ari Learned [Overton, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Huginn and Muninn
Published: 2017-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

Into the Thing assembled

In Codfirth, all bedecked with

The holt-fish (65) gleaming spangles.

From the sons of Hjalti is descended a great and noble family. There was a famous man named Thord, he was the son of Bjorn byrðusmjör = Keg-butter the son of Hroald Rig, the son of Bjorn Ironside, the son of Ragnar lodbrok = hairy breeches. Thord went to Iceland, and settled Hofdistrand in Skagasfirth between Unadales river and Hrolleifdales river and dwelt at Hofdi. Thord married Thorgerd the daughter of Thorir hima and Fridgerd, the daughter of Kjarval a King of Ireland. They had nineteen children. Bjorn was a son of theirs, he married Thurid the daughter of Ref from Bard and their children were Arnorr Kerlingarnef = old woman’s nose, and Thordis the mother of Orm, the father of Thordis, the mother of Botolf, the father of Thordis, the mother of Helga, the mother of Gudny, the mother of the Sturlusons.

Thorgeir was the name of another son of Thord he married Rjupa, the daughter of Arnhald, the son of Sæmund; their son was Halldor at Hof. Snorri was a third son, he married Thorhild rjupa, (66) the daughter of Thord the Yeller. Their son was Thord horsehead, the father of Karlsefni who discovered Vinland (67) the good, the father of Snorri the father of Steinun, the mother of Thorstein Wrongdoer, the father of Gudrun the mother of Halla, the mother of Flosi, the father of Valgerd, the mother of Knight Erlend the Strong. Thorvald Holbarki (= without a roof to his mouth) was the fourth son, he came one autumn to Thorvardstead to Smidkel and tarried there awhile; thence he went up to the cave of Surt and recited there a drapa which he had made on the giant in the cave. Afterwards he married the daughter of Smidkel, and their daughter was Jorun the mother of Thorbrand in Skarfness. Bard was the fifth son of Thord, he married Thorarna, the daughter of Thorodd the Helmet, their son was Dadi the Skald. Söxolf was the sixth son of Thord, the seventh Thorgrim, the eighth Hroar, the ninth Knorr, the tenth Thormod Skull, the eleventh Stein. The daughter of Thord was Thorlaug, who married Arnbjorn, the son of Sléttu-bjorn, their daughter was Gudlaug, whom Thorleik the son of Hoskuld had to wife,their son was Bolli. Herdis was another daughter of Thord, and her Atli the Strong had for wife; Thorgrima Skeidarkinn was the third, the fourth Arnbjorg, the fifth Arnleif, the sixth Asgerd, the seventh Thurid, the eighth Fridgerd, in Hvamm.

The son of Arnor, the son of Bjorn, the son of Thord, was Eldjarn, the father of Hall, the father of Ragnhild, the mother of Rafn, the father of Hallbera, the mother of Valdis, the mother of Snorri, the father of Hallbera, whom Markus the son of Thord at Melar had for wife. Hrolleif the Mickle settled Hrolleifsdale, as has been written before; Thord drove him from the north as an outlaw, on account of the slaughter of Odd, the son of Uni, thence he went into Vatnsdale.

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