Gro
Genealogical figure connecting Thorstein the Red's lineage to the Orkney earls in the Laxdaela Saga.
Gro appears in the Laxdaela Saga as the mother of Greilad, who "married Earl Thorfinn, the son of Earl Turf-Einar, son of Rognvald Mere-Earl" (Laxdaela Saga, Chapter IV). She functions as a genealogical link connecting Thorstein the Red's lineage to the Orkney earls.
The Laxdaela Saga's single attestation establishes Gro solely through her maternal role, connecting the Icelandic settler families to the Norse earldom of the Orkneys. She represents the kind of genealogical figure who binds together the saga world's great family networks.
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Laxdæla Saga: Translated from the Icelandic, Norse Tradition
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