eyrbyggja saga angielski, Archeologia
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The Saga of the Ere-Dwellers
Translation: William Morris & Eirikr Magnusson
Index
The Saga of the Ere-Dwellers
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Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea.
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Chapter 2 - Of Biorn Ketilson and Thorolf Most-Beard.
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Chapter 3 - Thorolf Most-Beard Outlawed By King Harald Hairfair.
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Chapter 4 - Thorolf Most-Beard Comes Out To Iceland, And Sets Up House There.
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Chapter 5 - Biorn Ketilson Comes West-Over-The-Sea, But Will Not Abide There.
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Chapter 6 - Biorn Comes Out To Iceland.
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Chapter 7 - Of The Kin Of Kiallak.
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Chapter 8 - Of Thorolf Halt-Foot.
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Chapter 9 - Of Thorstein Codbiter. Battle At Thorsness Thing.
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Chapter 10 - Peace Made.
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Chapter 11 - Of Thorgrim The Priest The Death Of Thorstein Codbiter.
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Chapter 12 - Of Arnkel The Priest And Others.
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Chapter 13 - Of Snorri Thorgrimson.
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Chapter 14 - Snorri Gets Holyfell.
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Chapter 15 - Of Snorri The Priest, Of The Mewlithe-Folk.
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Chapter 16 - Gunnlaug Is Witch-Ridden Geirrid Summoned, Of Thorarin.
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Chapter 17 - Strife At The Thorsness Thing; Snorri Goes Between.
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Chapter 18 - Men Will Ransack At Mewlithe; Thorarin Falls To Fight.
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Chapter 19 - The Lay Of The Mewlithers.
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Chapter 20 - The End Of Katla And Odd.
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Chapter 21 - They Take Rede About The Blood-Feud.
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Chapter 22 - Snorri Summons Thorarin.
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Chapter 23 - Of Vigfus And Biorn And Mar.
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Chapter 24 - Of Eric the Red.
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Chapter 25 - Of Vermund And Thorarin In Norway; Of Those Bareserks.
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Chapter 26 - Of Vigfus And Swart The Strong. The Slaying Of Vigfus.
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Chapter 27 - Arnkel Takes Up The Blood-Feud For Vigfus.
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Chapter 28 - Of The Bareserks And The Wooing of Asdis, Stir’s Daughter.
Chapter 29 - Of Thorod Scat-Catcher And Of Biorn Asbrandson, And Of The Slaying Of The
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Sons Of Thorir Wooden-Leg.
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Chapter 30 - Of The Evil Dealings Of Thorolf Halt-Foot.
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Chapter 31 - Of Thorolf Halt-Foot And Snorri The Priest.
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Chapter 32 - The Slaying Of Ulfar; Thorbrand’s Sons Claim The Heritage.
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Chapter 33 - Of The Death Of Thorolf Halt-Foot.
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Chapter 34 - Thorolf Halt-Foot Walks; The Second Burial Of Him.
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Chapter 35 - Arnkel Slays Hawk.
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Chapter 36 - Thorleif Would Slay Arnkel, And Is Slain.
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Chapter 37 - The Slaying Of Arnkel.
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Chapter 38 - The Blood-Suit For Arnkel.
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Chapter 39 - Of Thorleif Kimbi And His Dealings With Arnbiorn.
Chapter 40 - Of Biorn, The Champion Of The Broadwickers, And His Dealings With Thurid
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Of Frodis-Water.
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Chapter 41 - Of Thorleif Kimbi And Thord Wall-Eye.
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Chapter 42 - Thorbrand’s Sons Make An Onslaught On Arnbiorn.
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Chapter 43 - Of Egil The Strong.
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Chapter 44 - The Battle In Swanfirth.
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Chapter 45 - The Battle In Swordfirth.
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Chapter 46 - The Peace-Making After These Battles.
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Chapter 47 - Of Thorod Scat-Catcher And Snorri And Biorn The Champion Of The Broad-Wickers.
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Chapter 48 - Of Thorbrand’s Sons In Greenland.
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Chapter 49 - Of The Coming Of Christ’s Faith To Iceland.
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Chapter 50 - Of Thorgunna And How She Came To Frodis-Water.
Chapter 51 - It Rains Blood At Frodis-Water. Of Thorgunna, And How She Died And Was Buried
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Chapter 52 - The Beginning Of Wonders At Frodis-Water.
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Chapter 53 - Now Men Die At Frodis-Water, More Wonders.
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Chapter 54 - The Death Of Thorod Scat-Catcher; The Dead Walk At Frodis-Water.
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Chapter 55 - A Door-Doom At Frodis-Water.
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Chapter 56 - Of Snorri The Priest And The Blood-Suit After Stir.
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Chapter 57 - Of Uspak Of Ere In Bitter And Of His Injustice.
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Chapter 58 - Uspak Robs Alf The Little. Thorir Chases Uspak.
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Chapter 59 - Uspak And His Men At The Strands. They Give Up Their Work.
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Chapter 60 - Uspak Goes Back To Ere In Bitter: He Robs And Slays.
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Chapter 61 - Snorri Sends For Thrand The Strider.
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Chapter 62 - Snorri And Sturla Win The Work At Ere In Bitter.
Chapter 63 - Of The Walking Of Thorolf Halt-Foot. He Is Dug Up And Burned. Of The Bull
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Chapter 64 - The Last Tidings Of Biorn The Champion Of The Broadwickers.
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Chapter 65 - The Kindred Of Snorri The Priest; The Death Of Him.
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The Saga of the Ere-Dwellers
Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To
West-Over-Sea.
Ketil Flatneb was hight a famous hersir in Norway; he was the son of Biorn Rough-foot, the son of
Grim, a hersir of Sogn. Ketil Flatneb was a wedded man; he had to wife Yngvild, daughter of Ketil
Wether, a hersir of Raumarik; Biorn and Helgi were hight their sons, but their daughters were these,
Auth the Deep-minded, Thorun the Horned, and Jorun Manwitbrent. Biorn, the son of Ketil, was
fostered east in Iamtaland with that earl who was called Kiallak, a wise man, and most renowned; he
had a son whose name was Biorn, and a daughter hight Giaflaug. That was in the days when King
Harald Hairfair came to the rule of Norway. Because of that unpeace many noble men fled from their
lands out of Norway; some east over the Keel, some West-over-the-sea. Some there were withal who
in winter kept themselves in the South-isles, or the Orkneys, but in summer harried in Norway and
wrought much scathe in the kingdom of Harald the king.
Now the bonders bemoaned them of that to the king, and prayed him deliver them from that unpeace.
Then Harald the king took such rede that he caused dight an army for West-over-the-sea, and said that
Ketil Flatneb should be captain of that host. Ketil begged off therefrom, but the king said he must
needs go; and when Ketil saw that the king would have his will, he betook himself to the faring, and
had with him his wife and those of his children who were at home. But when Ketil came
West-over-the-sea, some deal of fighting had he and his, and ever got the victory. He laid under him
the South-isles, and made himself chief over them. Then he made peace with the mightiest chiefs
West-over-the-sea, and made alliances with them, and therewithal sent the army back east. But when
they met Harald the king, they said that Ketil Flatneb was lord of the South-isles, but that they wotted
not if he would drag the rule west of the sea to King Harald. But when the king knew that, he took to
himself those lands that Ketil owned in Norway.
Ketil Flatneb gave his daughter Auth to Olaf the White, who at that time was the greatest war-king
West-over-the-sea; he was the son of Ingiald, the son of Helgi; but the mother of Ingiald was Thora,
the daughter of Sigurd Worm-in-eye, the son of Ragnar Hairy-breeks. Thorun the Horned he gave in
wedlock to Helgi the Lean, the son of Eyvind the Eastman and Rafarta, the daughter of Kiarfal, King
of the Irish.
Chapter 2 - Of Biorn Ketilson and Thorolf Most-Beard.
Biorn the son of Ketil Flatneb was in Iamtaland till Kiallak the earl died; he gat to wife Giaflaug the
earl’s daughter, and thereafter fared west over the Keel, first to Thrandheim and then south through the
land, and took to himself those lands which his father had owned, and drove away the bailiffs that
King Harald had set over them. King Harald was in the Wick when he heard that, and thereon he fared
by the inland road north to Thrandheim, and when he came there he summoned an eight-folks’ mote;
and at that mote he made Biorn Ketilson outlaw from Norway, a man to be slain or taken wheresoever
he might be found. Thereafter he sent Hawk High-breeks and other of his warriors to slay him if they
might find him. But when they came south beyond Stath, the friends of Biorn became ware of their
journey and sent him tidings thereof. Then Biorn got him aboard a bark which he owned, with his
household and chattels, and fled away south along the land, because that this was in the heart of
winter, and he durst not make for the main. Biorn fared on till he came to the island called Most which
lies off South-Hordaland, and there a man hight Rolf took him in, who was the son of Ornolf the
Fish-driver. There lay Biorn privily the winter through. But the king’s men turned back when they had
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settled Biorn’s lands and set men over them.
Chapter 3 - Thorolf Most-Beard Outlawed By King Harald
Hairfair.
Rolf was a mighty chief, and a man of the greatest largesse; he had the ward of Thor’s temple there in
the island, and was a great friend of Thor. And therefore he was called Thorolf. He was a big man and
a strong, fair to look on, and had a great beard; therefore was he called Most-beard, and he was the
noblest man in the island.
In the spring Thorolf gave Biorn a good long-ship manned with a doughty crew, and gave him
Hallstein his son to bear him fellowship; and therewith they sailed West-over-the-sea to meet Biorn’s
kindred.
But when King Harald knew that Thorolf Mostbeard had harboured Biorn Ketilson the king’s outlaw,
then sent he men to see him and bade him begone from his lands, and fare as an outlaw even as Biorn
his friend, but if he come and meet the king and lay the whole matter in his hand. This was ten winters
after Ingolf Arnarson had fared out to take up his abode in Iceland, and that faring was grown to be
very famous, because that those men who came out from Iceland told of good choice of land therein.
Chapter 4 - Thorolf Most-Beard Comes Out To Iceland, And
Sets Up House There.
Thorolf Most-Beard made a great sacrifice, and asked of Thor his well-beloved friend whether he
should make peace with the king, or get him gone from out the land and seek other fortunes. But the
Word showed Thorolf to Iceland; and thereafter he got for himself a great ship meet for the main, and
trimmed it for the Iceland-faring, and had with him his kindred and his household goods; and many
friends of his betook themselves to faring with him. He pulled down the temple, and had with him
most of the timbers which had been therein, and mould moreover from under the stall whereon Thor
had sat.
Thereafter Thorolf sailed into the main sea, and had wind at will, and made land, and sailed south
along and west about Reekness, and then fell the wind, and they saw that two big bights cut into the
land.
Then Thorolf cast overboard the pillars of his high-seat, which had been in the temple, and on one of
them was Thor carven; withal he spake over them, that there he would abide in Iceland, whereas Thor
should let those pillars come a-land.
But when they drifted from off the ship they were borne towards the westernmost firth in sight, and
folk deemed that they went in sooth no slower than might have been looked for.
After that came a sea breeze, and they sailed west about Snowfellsness and stood into the firth. There
see they that the firth is mighty broad and long, with great fells rising on either side thereof. Then
Thorolf gave name to the firth and called it Broadfirth. He took land on the south side of the firth, nigh
the midmost, and laid his ship in the creek, which thereafter they called Templewick.
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