Wolf Aurpriest
Genealogical figure in Njal's Saga, ancestor of Saemund the Wise through the line Swart-Lodmund-Sigfus.
Wolf Aurpriest is a genealogical figure in Njal's Saga, attested solely through an endnote tracing the ancestry of Saemund the Wise. Wolf Aurpriest was the father of Swart, through whom the line descends via Lodmund and Sigfus to "Saemund the Wise" (Njal's Saga, 1. Of Fiddle Mord, Endnotes).
The single attestation in Njal's Saga preserves Wolf Aurpriest within a patrilineal genealogy: "Wolf Aurpriest was the father of Swart, the father of Lodmund, the father of Sigfus, the father of Saemund the Wise" (Njal's Saga, 1. Of Fiddle Mord, Endnotes). This is a standard saga genealogical formula, serving to establish the pedigree of a later prominent figure rather than to characterize Wolf Aurpriest himself.
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Njál's Saga, Norse Tradition
On trail: Genealogies