The Eyrbyggja Saga on Snorri the Priest

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 19 - The Lay Of The Mewlithers.

• relationship: Snorri the Priest was related to Thorbiorn the Thick by marriage, making him the natural prosecutor

  "Snorri the Priest must needs take up the case for Thorbiorn his brother-in4aw"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 22 - Snorri Summons Thorarin.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest took up the blood-feud for his slain brother-in-law Thorbiorn

  "Snorri the Priest that he took up the blood-feud for the slaying of Thorbiorn his brother-in-law"

• attestation: Snorri forced his sister Thurid to return to Holyfell because of rumors about Biorn son of Asbrand visiting her

  "he also made Thurid his sister fare home to Holyfell, because the rumour ran that Biorn, the son of Asbrand from Combe, was wont to wend thither to meet her for her beguiling"

• attestation: Snorri deduced Arnkel's group planned flight rather than legal settlement because no peace offers had come forward

  "Snorri deemed that he saw through all the counsel of Arnkel and his friends, as soon as he learned of that ship getting ready for sea, namely, that they had no mind to deliver money atonements for those slayings"

• attestation: Snorri rode into Swanfirth with eighty men to serve legal summons on the summoning days

  "Snorri gathered men, and rode up into Swanfirth with eighty men, because it was then the law to give out the summons for blood-guilt in the hearing of the slayers"

• attestation: Snorri formally summoned Thorarin and all who participated in the killings to the Thorsness Thing

  "Snorri summoned Thorarin and all those who had been at the slayings, to the Thorsness Thing"

• attestation: Snorri's party rode up to Ulfar's-fell after completing the summoning at Lairstead

  "thereafter Snorri and his band rode away and up into Ulfar's-fell"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 26 - Of Vigfus And Swart The Strong. The Slaying Of Vigfus.

• attestation: Snorri rode out with six men and killed Vigfus at Drapalith, but spared his house-carles

  "Snorri set out with six men to Drapalith. And when they came up the hill-side they saw the fire whereat Vigfus and his folk burned charcoal. Withal they came unawares upon Vigfus and his men, and slew him"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 27 - Arnkel Takes Up The Blood-Feud For Vigfus.

• attestation: Snorri filed a counter-suit against Vigfus posthumously for plotting assassination and for Mar's wounding

  "Snorri set forth a cross-suit for the unhallowing of Vigfus for plotting against his life and for the wounding of Mar"

• attestation: The case ended in arbitrated settlement: Snorri paid large fines for Vigfus's death, and Mar was exiled for three winters

  "Snorri the Priest made a handsel as to the slaughter of Vigfus, and great fines were awarded; but Mar should be abroad for three winters. So Snorri paid up the money"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 28 - Of The Bareserks And The Wooing of Asdis, Stir's Daughter.

• attestation: Snorri suggested they take counsel on Holy Fell, claiming decisions made there were the most enduring

  "Then we will go up on to the Holy Fell, for those redes have been the last to come to nought that have been taken there"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 31 - Of Thorolf Halt-Foot And Snorri The Priest.

• attestation: Snorri initially refused to intervene between father and son, telling Thorolf that Arnkel was the better man

  "Thou shouldst not make plaint of that, because that thou shouldst be of one mind with him in all things: withal he is a better man than thou"

• attestation: Snorri accepted the Crowness woodland from Thorolf and took over the blood-suit for the thralls

  "Snorri deemed that he needed the wood greatly; and so it is said that he took handsel of the land, and took over the blood- suit for the thralls"

• attestation: Snorri argued the thralls lost their legal immunity when Arnkel transported them to Vadils-head for execution

  "the thralls were indeed out of the law on the field of deed, "but whereas thou didst bring them in to Vadils-head and slay them there, I deem that there they were not out of the law.""

• attestation: Snorri retorted that Thorolf's evil deeds, not Snorri's advocacy, were the source of the problem

  "thou hast no shame herein, but I will not stake my worth against thy evil lust and foul deeds"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 32 - The Slaying Of Ulfar; Thorbrand's Sons Claim The Heritage.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest refused to help Thorbrand's sons, saying they acted too slowly in securing the property

  "he said that he would not thrust into strife with Arnkel for this case, whereas they had done their part so slippery, that Arnkel and Ulfar had first laid hands on the goods"

• attestation: Snorri told Thorbrand's sons that Arnkel dominated every man's fortune in the countryside and would continue to do so

  "Arnkel rules now over every man's fortune in this countryside, and will do while he lives, whether that be longer or shorter"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 33 - Of The Death Of Thorolf Halt-Foot.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest had timber cut from Crowness wood, which Thorolf Halt-foot claimed was only lent, not given

  "Snorri the Priest let work Crowness wood, and let much wood cutting go on. Thorolf Halt-foot thought that the wood was spoilt thereby"

• attestation: Snorri refused to return the wood, insisting witnesses would prove it was given not lent

  "Snorri said that would be clearer when they bore witness who were by at the handselling, and said that he would not give up the wood unless they gave it against him"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 35 - Arnkel Slays Hawk.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest continued cutting Crowness wood despite Thorolf's earlier challenge, and people noticed a change in the wood's spiritual quality

  "Snorri the Priest let work Crowness wood for all that Thorolf Halt-foot had raised question about it; but that was seen of his wood-working"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 37 - The Slaying Of Arnkel.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest hosted a great autumn feast at winter-nights where guests debated who was the noblest chief in the countryside

  "The autumn after, at winter-nights, Snorri the Priest had a great autumn-feast, and bade his friends thereto"

• attestation: Most guests considered Snorri the greatest man, though some named Arnkel or Stir

  "To most of them indeed it seemed that Snorri was the noblest man, but some named Arnkel, and Stir forsooth"

• attestation: Snorri gave Thorleif Kimbi a long-handled axe as a parting gift, with a veiled challenge to use it against Arnkel

  ""Here is an axe, Thorleif, which I will give thee; it is the longest handled of all I have, yet will it not reach Arnkel's head when he stacks his hay at Orligstead, if thou heavest it at him all the way from Swanfirth.""

• attestation: Snorri assigned Thorbrand's sons to spy on Arnkel's movements, while pledging to join them when opportunity arose

  "both gave out that they were ready to plot against Arnkel's life, and Thorbrand's sons were to have a spy on his goings"

• attestation: Snorri led Thorbrand's sons down to their ship at Redwick-head after the feast

  "Snorri the Priest chose gifts for his friends. He led Thorbrand's sons down to their ship at Redwick-head"

• attestation: Snorri marshaled nine men and crossed the ice to Swanfirth, where Thorbrand's six sons joined them

  "they took their weapons and fared nine of them altogether over the ice to Swanfirth. And when they came to the bottom of the firth, Thorbrand's sons came to meet them, and were six in company"

• attestation: Fifteen attackers converged on Arnkel at Orligstead: nine from Snorri's party and six sons of Thorbrand

  "they took their weapons and fared nine of them altogether over the ice to Swanfirth. And when they came to the bottom of the firth, Thorbrand's sons came to meet them, and were six in company. Then they fared up to Orligstead"

• attestation: Snorri and his men returned to Holyfell after killing Arnkel

  "thereafter Snorri and his folk fared home to Holyfell"

• attestation: Thormod Trefilson's verse credits Snorri with felling Arnkel in combat

  "Where Snorri felled Arnkel."

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 41 - Of Thorleif Kimbi And Thord Wall-Eye.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest and Steinthor served as joint arbitrators in the resulting settlement

  "it was settled that Snorri and Steinthor should be umpires in the matter"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 42 - Thorbrand's Sons Make An Onslaught On Arnbiorn.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest rode to a ship at Lavahaven with fourteen men, and Thorbrand's six armed sons followed uninvited

  "Snorri the Priest rode to the ship at Lavahaven, and fourteen men with him; but when they came south over the heath to Dufgusdale, six men all-armed rode after them, and there were the sons of Thorbrand"

• attestation: Snorri warned Thorbrand's sons to go home and avoid provoking the Broadwickers

  "Snorri said that he would do their errands for them, and bade them go back home and not raise quarrels betwixt men"

• attestation: Snorri rode after Thorbrand's sons and ordered them to cease the attack, which they obeyed

  "Snorri bade them begone thence, nor work any unpeaceful deeds in his company, so whereas they had got no entrance there, they even gave up the onset as Snorri bade"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 43 - Of Egil The Strong.

• attestation: Snorri may have devised the assassination plan, advising Egil to approach through the pass above Playhalls using evening smoke as cover

  "some men say that that was done by Snorri's rede, and that he had so counselled that the thrall should try if he might get into the hall by stealth"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 44 - The Battle In Swanfirth.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest sailed up Swanfirth with about fifty men in three boats and arrived at Karstead before Steinthor

  "Snorri went up Swanfirth, and had nigh fifty men with three keels, and came to Karstead before Steinthor and his men"

• attestation: Snorri's combined force at Karstead numbered eighty men

  "Now they who were there were eighty men"

• attestation: Snorri counseled restraint, predicting Steinthor would act peaceably and wisely

  "Steinthor shall have the law, for peaceably and wisely will he fare in his redes"

• attestation: Snorri ordered Steinthor to leave and refused to let his men pursue

  "Snorri the Priest came out he bade men stay the unpeace, and bade Steinthor ride away from the homestead, and said that he would not suffer men to ride after them"

• attestation: Snorri wryly observed that the last to arrive does not always fare best

  ""It is well that men should see," says he, "that he is not always in the best case that goeth the last.""

• attestation: Snorri shamed Stir into switching sides by accusing him of failing to avenge his own grandson Thorod

  ""Thus, forsooth, thou avengest Thorod, the son of thy daughter, whom Steinthor of Ere has brought unto death; the greatest of dastards art thou.""

• attestation: Snorri magnanimously upheld the truce despite Steinthor's treacherous blow, saying killing all Thorlak's sons would bring too much turmoil

  ""Turmoil enow it would bring to the countryside if all sons of Thorlak were slain, and the truce shall be holden to if Steinthor will, after the word aforesaid.""

• attestation: Some believed Snorri offered easy truce terms because he spotted Biorn's reinforcements approaching

  "some men say that Snorri the Priest saw Biorn and his folk as they came up on the hill's brow, whenas he happened to turn and face them, and that for that cause he was so easy in the terms of the truce"

• attestation: The Raven-lay credits Snorri with ending five men's lives in the sword-storm at Swanfirth

  "There then, let Snorri Of five men the life-days Cut off in sword-storm: Such way shall foes pay."

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 45 - The Battle In Swordfirth.

• attestation: Snorri's shepherd at Oxbrents witnessed the battle and reported it to Snorri, who brought nine men to the scene

  "a shepherd of Snorri's had been at Oxbrents that day, and saw thence the fight at Swordfirth. So he went home straightway, and told Snorri the Priest"

• attestation: Snorri tasted the blood where Bergthor had lain and diagnosed it as the blood of a doomed man

  "Snorri the Priest went there whereas Bergthor had lain, and saw there great gouts of blood. Then he took up in his hand together blood and snow, and crushed it up, and put it in his mouth, and asked who had bled there"

• attestation: Snorri declared Bergthor would die and used that as reason not to pursue Steinthor's retreating force

  ""Methinks," says Snorri, "that is the blood of a doomed man; so we will not follow after them.""

• attestation: A spear was found pinning Thorod's leg and breeches together, nailing them to his body between the hough sinew and leg bone

  "Snorri the Priest went thereto, and felt along his leg, and found a spear stuck through his leg between the hough sinew and the leg bone, that had nailed together the leg and the breeches"

• attestation: Snorri called the servant a measureless fool for not realizing a spear was pinning the breeches

  "Then said Snorri that the thrall was a measureless fool not to have thought of such a thing"

• attestation: Snorri the Priest extracted an arrow from his namesake's throat using drawing-tongs, after which the wounded man resumed eating

  "Snorri the Priest drew his hand down his throat, and found an arrow sticking athwart his gullet and the roots of the tongue. Then Snorri the Priest took drawing-tongs and pulled out the arrow, and then Snorri Thorbrandson fell to his meat"

• attestation: Snorri the Priest healed all of Thorbrand's sons from their battle wounds

  "Then Snorri the Priest healed all the sons of Thorbrand"

• attestation: Snorri correctly predicted the head would straighten once the sinews knit together, refusing to reopen the wound

  "all went as Snorri had guessed, and as soon as the sinews were knit together the head came right; yet little might Thord lout ever after"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 47 - Of Thorod Scat-Catcher And Snorri And Biorn The Champion Of The Broad-Wickers.

• attestation: Snorri devised a plan to ambush Biorn at his farm at Combe, riding there from Combheath

  ""Now shall we ride down from the heath unto Comb; and I will have you to know," says he, "that I will make an onset on Biorn, and take his life if occasion may serve""

• comparison: Snorri compared the difficulty of attacking a strong man in his house to Gizur the White and Hiallti's assault on Gunnar of Lithend

  "as the case of Geir the Priest and Gizur the White shows well enow; for with eighty men they fell on Gunnar of Lithend in his house when he was all alone"

• attestation: Snorri assigned Mar to strike the first blow against Biorn, warning that Biorn required a killing wound immediately

  ""I will that thou, kinsman Mar, fall to work on Biorn, but take heed of this first, that he is no mannikin, and therefore a greedy wolf will have a gripe, whereas he is, if he get not such a wound at the first onset as will speedily work his bane.""

• attestation: Snorri wore a blue cape and rode at the head of his party

  "Snorri the Priest was in a blue cape and rode first"

• attestation: Snorri conceded truce because Biorn had gained an advantageous physical hold on him

  ""So lucky a hold thou hast of me in this our meeting," says Snorri, "that truce must thou have as at this time, whatever my mind was erst""

• attestation: Snorri demanded Biorn cease his affair with Thurid, warning the feud would not heal otherwise

  ""this I pray thee, that thou keep thyself henceforth from the beguiling of Thurid, for the wound betwixt us will not be healed if thou abidest as thou hast begun therein.""

• attestation: Snorri suggested Biorn relocate away from the countryside to resolve the matter

  ""Nought holds thee here so much as that thou may'st not well take up thine abode away from this countryside.""

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 49 - Of The Coming Of Christ's Faith To Iceland.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest was the chief advocate for Christianity among the Westfirthers

  "Snorri the Priest brought it chiefly about with the Westfirthers that Christ's faith was taken of them"

• attestation: Snorri built a church at Holyfell after the Thing, and his father-in-law Stir built one at Under-the-Lava

  "Snorri let build a church at Holyfell, and Stir, his father-in-law, another at Under-the-Lava"

• attestation: Church-building was spurred by the teaching that a man could reserve heavenly places for as many souls as could stand in his church

  "it was promised them by the teachers, that a man should have welcome place for so many men in the kingdom of Heaven as might stand in any church that he let build"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 55 - A Door-Doom At Frodis-Water.

• relationship: Snorri the Priest was Kiartan's maternal uncle

  "Snorri the Priest, his mother's brother"

• attestation: Snorri sent his son Thord Kausi along with six additional men to help Kiartan

  "as well as his son Thord Kausi, and six men more."

• attestation: Snorri advised burning Thorgunna's bed-gear, summoning the dead to a door-doom, and having the priest perform rituals

  "he added the counsel to burn Thorgunna's bed-gear, and summon all those who walked, to a door-doom; and he bade the priest sing the hours there, and hallow water and shrive all folk."

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 56 - Of Snorri The Priest And The Blood-Suit After Stir.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest lived at Holyfell for eight winters after Christianity became law in Iceland

  "Snorri the Priest dwelt at Holyfell eight winters after Christ's faith was made law in Iceland."

• attestation: Snorri exchanged lands with Gudrun Osvif's daughter and moved to Tongue in Saelings-dale

  "Snorri changed lands with Gudrun Osvif's daughter, and brought his household to Tongue in Saelings-dale"

• attestation: Snorri led four hundred men south to Burgfirth to prosecute the case for Stir's killing

  "Snorri went south to Burgfirth with four hundred men to follow up the suit for the slaying of Stir."

• attestation: Snorri killed Thorstein Gislison and his son Gunnar the following summer in Burgfirth

  "Snorri the Priest rode south to Burgfirth, and took the life of Thorstein Gislison and Gunnar his son"

• attestation: Snorri threatened Thorstein of Hafsfirthisle at the Thorsness Thing, implying retaliation for the failed Burgfirth suit

  ""Now belike wilt thou that we further thy cases for thee, even as ye Burgrifthers furthered ours last spring.""

• attestation: Snorri praised Kiartan after the battle by calling him 'Broadwicking', which angered Kiartan as a reference to his lineage

  ""Well wentest thou forth today, Broadwicking!" Kiartan answered somewhat wrathfully: "No need to throw my kin in my teeth," said he."

• attestation: Snorri was generous in the peace settlement because the unatoned killing of Thorstein Gislison left him legally vulnerable at the Althing

  "Snorri the Priest was the more generous in all peace-makings, because he would not that these matters should come to the Althing, whereas the slaughter of Thorstein Gislison was yet unatoned for"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 57 - Of Uspak Of Ere In Bitter And Of His Injustice.

• attestation: A great whale washed ashore between Stika and Gudlaugs-head, with Snorri the Priest and Sturla holding the largest shares

  "out betwixt Stika and Gudlaugs-head was a great whale driven ashore; in that whale Snorri the Priest and Sturla Thiodrekson had the greatest share"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 59 - Uspak And His Men At The Strands. They Give Up Their Work.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest prosecuted all of Alf the Little's cases against Uspak and secured convictions at the Thorsness Thing

  "Snorri the Priest took up all the cases of Alf the Little at the hands of Uspak and his men, and made all those guilty at the Thorsness Thing"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 60 - Uspak Goes Back To Ere In Bitter: He Robs And Slays.

• attestation: Snorri held the court of forfeiture at Ere according to law, seized Uspak's property, and distributed it to those most wronged

  "Snorri held the court of forfeiture there according to law, and laid hands on all the forfeit goods, and divided them betwixt those men as had had the most ill deeds done them, Alf the Little to wit"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 61 - Snorri Sends For Thrand The Strider.

• attestation: Snorri chose to wait for more intelligence from Bitter before acting, despite criticism for being slow

  "Snorri the Priest would first hear from the north what more they had done than driving Alf from the north, or whether they meant to have a settled abode there in Bitter."

• attestation: Snorri's enemies criticized him for being slow to act on Alf's behalf, but he ignored them

  "Snorri's unfriends laid blame on him, in that he was held by folk slow to set Alf's matters right. Snorri let them say what they would about it, and still was nought done."

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 62 - Snorri And Sturla Win The Work At Ere In Bitter.

• attestation: Snorri sent word to Sturla at Stead-knolls and gathered local men, then crossed Gablefell-heath with fifty men

  "Snorri the Priest sent a man west to Stead-knolls to Sturla Thiodrekson, and bade him come meet him at Tongue north in Bitter the next day. Withal Snorri sent to the farmsteads thereabout, and summoned men to him, and then they went north over Gablefell-heath with fifty men"

• attestation: Snorri rejected Uspak's offer of a negotiated withdrawal

  "Then Snorri bade him offer no more of such guileful choices."

• attestation: The attacking force divided sections of the wall among them: Snorri faced Raven, Sturla faced Uspak, the sons of Bork on one side, Snorri's sons on another

  "Snorri the Priest got that part of the work that Raven the Viking guarded, and Sturla the guard of Uspak; the sons of Bork the Thick, Sam and Thormod, fell on at one side, but Thorod and Thorstein Codbiter, the sons of Snorri the Priest, on the other."

• attestation: The Vikings offered surrender with their lives spared, submitting to the judgment of Snorri and Sturla

  "the Vikings offered to give up the work, life and limb saved, and therewithal that they would lay all their case under the doom of Snorri the Priest and Sturla."

• attestation: Snorri accepted the surrender and granted all defenders peace, as his forces had largely exhausted their ammunition

  "whereas Snorri and his men had pretty much spent their shot, they said yea to this. So the.work was given up, and those within rendered themselves to Snorri the Priest, and he gave them all peace of life and limb"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 64 - The Last Tidings Of Biorn The Champion Of The Broadwickers.

• attestation: The old man asked especially about Snorri the Priest, Thurid of Frodis-water, and young Kiartan the current master of Frodis-water

  "he asked concerning Snorri the Priest, and his sister Thurid of Frodiswater, and most of all of the youngling Kiartan, who in those days was gotten to be goodman of Frodis-water."

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 65 - The Kindred Of Snorri The Priest; The Death Of Him.

• attestation: Snorri the Priest lived at Tongue for twenty winters, initially resented by powerful rivals including Thorstein Kuggison and Thorgils son of Halla

  "Snorri the Priest dwelt at Tongue for twenty winters, and at first had a power there somewhat begrudged, while those brawlers were alive, Thorstein Kuggison to wit, and Thorgils the son of Halla"

• attestation: Snorri was Gudrun Osvif's daughter's greatest friend and features in the story of the Heathslaughters

  "he was the greatest friend of Gudrun, the daughter of Osvif, and of her sons. He also hath to do with the story of the Heathslaughters"

• relationship: Snorri married his daughter Sigrid to Brand the Bounteous, son of Vermund the Slender; after Brand, Kolli son of Thormod had her

  "He married his daughter Sigrid to Brand the Bounteous, the son of Vermund the Slender; Kolli, the son of Thormod, the son of Thorlak, the brother of Steinthor of Ere, had her to wife thereafter"

• relationship: Snorri married his daughter Unn to Slaying-Bardi; she later married Sigurd son of Thorir Hound of Birch-isle in Halogaland

  "His daughter Unn he married to Slaying-Bardi; Sigurd, the son of Thorir Hound of Birch-isle in Haloga]and, had her to wife afterwards"

• relationship: Snorri married his daughter Thordis to Bolli son of Bolli, and their descendants became the Gilsbeckings

  "His daughter Thordis, Snorri married to Bolli, son of Bolli, and from them is sprung the race of the Gilsbeckings."

• relationship: Snorri married his daughter Hallbera to Thord son of Sturla Thiodrekson

  "His daughter Hallbera, Snorri married to Thord, the son of Sturla Thiodrekson"

• relationship: Snorri married his daughter Thora to Keru-Bersi son of Haldor son of Olaf of Herdholt

  "Thora his daughter, Snorri married to Keru-Bersi, the son of Haldor, the son of Olaf of Herdholt"

• attestation: Snorri's son Snorri the younger inherited Tongue after his father

  "Snorri, the son of Snorri the Priest, dwelt in Tongue after his father."

• relationship: After Snorri's death, several daughters were married: Thurid the Wise to Gunnlaug son of Steinthor, Gudrun to Kalf of Sunhome, Haldora to Thorgeir of Asgarths-knolls, and Alof to Jorund Thorfinnson

  "Thurid the Wise, the daughter of Snorri, Gunnlaug, the son of Steinthor of Ere, had for wife; but Gudrun, the daughter of Snorri the Priest, was wedded to Kalf of Sunhome."

• attestation: Snorri the Priest died at Saelings-dale-Tongue one winter after the fall of King Olaf the Holy

  "Snorri died in Saelings-dale-Tongue one winter after the fall of King Olaf the Holy."

• attestation: Snorri was originally buried at the church he had built at Tongue

  "He was buried at the church he let rear at Tongue"

• attestation: When the church was relocated, Snorri's bones were exhumed and reburied at the new church site

  "at the time the church was moved, his bones were taken up and brought down to the place whereas the church now is"

• attestation: Gudny described Snorri the Priest's bones as those of a man of middle height, not especially large

  "she said that they were bones of a man of middle height, and not right big."