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The Eyrbyggja Saga on Snorri

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 12 - Of Arnkel The Priest And Others.

attestation: Young Thorgrim/Snorri was fostered by Thorbrand in Swanfirth and earned the nickname Snerrir for his recklessness

"Then fared Thorgrim her son to Swanfirth, and was there at fostering with Thorbrand; he was somewhat reckless in his youth, and was called Snerrir, but afterwards Snorri."

attestation: Snorri Thorgrimson traveled abroad at age fourteen with foster-brothers Thorleif Kimbi and Thorod

"Snorri Thorgrimson was fourteen winters old when he fared abroad with his foster-brothers Thorleif Kimbi and Thorod."
attestation: Snorri stayed with Erling Skialgson at Soli in Rogaland because of the old friendship between Horda-Karl and Thorolf Most-beard

"Snorri abode with Erling Skialgson at Soli, and Erling was good to him because of the ancient friendship between their former kinsmen, Horda-Karl and Thorolf Most-beard to wit."
attestation: Snorri protected his mother from Bork's blow after the stabbing, setting her down beside him

"Snorri thrust Bork away, so that he fell over, and caught hold of his mother and set her down beside him, and said that enough were her heart-burnings though she were left unbeaten."

attestation: Snorri claimed his father's inheritance from Bork at the Spring Thing

"At the Spring Thing the next summer Snorri claimed his father's heritage from Bork."
attestation: Snorri surprised Bork by immediately paying the full price through money he had entrusted to his foster-father Thorbrand

"Then said Snorri to Thorbrand his foster-father: "Did I hand over to thee any money last autumn?" "Yea," said Thorbrand, and therewith drew a purse from under his cape. Then was the silver told, and every penny paid for the land, and after that was left in the purse sixty hundreds of silver."
attestation: Snorri chose to take possession of Holyfell rather than let Bork redeem it, outsmarting Bork's financial scheme

"yet I choose to take to me my father's land at that price, so reach me out thine hand, and handsel me now the land."
attestation: Snorri stood forth as his mother's legal representative in the property division because he was her heir

"Snorri stood forth for his mother because he was her heir. Then Bork took the lot which he had minded for another, that he got but a little price for the islands."

attestation: Snorri's mother managed his household while Mar Hallwardson, his father's half-brother, oversaw husbandry and livestock

"his mother was over the housekeeping. Mar Hallwardson, his father's brother, betook himself thither with much live-stock, and was head over Snorri's household and husbandry."
attestation: Snorri was of middling height, somewhat slender, fair-faced with light complexion, yellow hair and red beard

"Snorri was middling in height and somewhat slender, fair to look on, straight-faced and of light hue; of yellow hair and red beard"
attestation: Snorri appeared meek in daily life but was wise, foreseeing, long in wrath, and deep in hatred

"he was meek of mood in his daily ways; little men knew of his thought for good or ill; he was a wise man, and foreseeing in many things, enduring in wrath and deep in hatred"
attestation: Snorri became Warden of the Temple at Holyfell, earning the title Snorri the Priest

"He was now Warden of the Temple there; therefore was he called Snorri the Priest, and a great chief he became"

attestation: Snorri the Priest prosecuted for his brother-in-law Thorbiorn while Arnkel defended his sister Geirrid at the Thorsness Thing

"Snorri the Priest took up the case for Thorbiorn his brother-in-law; but Arnkel the Priest defended the case for Geirrid his sister"