Eyrbyggja Saga
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Appendix A
The Children Of Snorri The Priest.
(From Cod. A.M. 445b, 4to. Printed
in "Eyrbyggjasaga", ed. G. Vigfusson, Leipzig, 1864, pp. 125-26.)
Snorri the Priest had nineteen
children freeborn who got over the days of childhood. Thord Kausi was
the eldest, the second was Thorod, the third Thorstein, the fourth Gudlaug
the monk.
These were sons of Asdis,
the daughter of Slaying-Stir.
The fifth child of Snorri
was Sigrid, the sixth Unn; they were daughters of Thurid, the daughter
of Illugi the Red.
The seventh child was Klepp,
the eighth Haldora, the ninth Thordis, the tenth Gudrun, the eleventh
Haldor, the twelfth Mani, the thirteenth Eyolf, the fourteenth Thora,
the fifteenth Hallbera, the sixteenth Thurid, the seventeenth Thorleif,
the eighteenth Alof, the nineteenth Snorri, who was born after the death
of his father.
These were the children
of Halfrid, the daughter of Einar.
Snorri the Priest had three
children born of bondwomen: a second Thord Kausi, Jorund, and Thorhild.
Snorri the Priest was fourteen
winters old when he went abroad, where he tarried one winter. But the
next winter after his coming back he spent at Holyfell with Bork the Thick,
his father's brother, and with Thordis his mother. That autumn Eyolf the
Gray, son of Thord the Yeller, slew Gisli Surson, and in the spring following,
when he was sixteen winters old, Snorri set up house at Holyfell, and
abode there twenty and three winters or ever Christ's faith was made law
in the land; but after that he abode eight winters at Holyfell; and in
the last of those winters Thorgest, son of Thorhall, slew Slaying-Stir,
the father-in-law of Snorri the Priest, at Iorvi in Flisa-wharf.
Thereafter he flitted his
household to Saelingsdale-Tongue, and abode there for twenty winters.
He had builded a church at Holyfell, and another at Tongue in Saelings-dale,
and some folk say that a second time he had a church reared at Holyfell
in fellowship with Gudrun, Osvif's daughter, when that church was burnt
down which he himself had erst set up there. He died of sickness in the
seventh winter of the seventh ten of his age, and that was one winter
after the fall of King Olaf the Holy, and was buried there at his home
of Saelings-dale-Tongue, at the church which he had had reared there himself.
Much blessed in a mighty and great offspring he has now become, in that
most of the noblest men in the land trace their line of kinship up to
him, beside the Birch-islanders in Halogaland, the "Beards" of Gata in
Faroe, and many other great folk, both in this and in other lands, whereof
the tale is not told here.
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