The Eyrbyggja Saga on Thordis

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

• relationship: After Thorgrim's death, Thordis bore a posthumous son also named Thorgrim, later known as Snerrir and then Snorri

  "Some nights after Thordis his wife brought forth a son, and the lad was called Thorgrim after his father. A little thereafter Thordis was wedded to Bork the Thick, Thorgrim's brother"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 13 - Of Snorri Thorgrimson.

• attestation: Thordis stabbed Eyolf the Gray in the thigh with his own sword while pretending to pick up a dropped spoon

  "she took Eyolf's sword therewith and drew it swiftly, and thrust it up under the board, and the thrust smote Eyolf's thigh, but the hilt caught against the board; yet was the hurt sore."

• attestation: Thordis expressed contempt for Gisli's killer, saying gruel was good enough for his slayer

  "Thordis said: "Cheer good enough for Gisli's bane if grout is given him.""

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 14 - Snorri Gets Holyfell.

• attestation: Thordis publicly divorced Bork for striking her, naming witnesses and citing his violence as grounds

  "Thordis went forth and named witnesses to this for herself, that she gave out that she was parted from Bork her husband, and gave that for the cause that he had smitten her, and she would not lie under his hand."

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: Thordis daughter of Thorbiorn Sur, Snorri's mother, had her bones exhumed as well; they were small and blackened as if singed

  "Then, too, were dug out the bones of the carline Thordis, the daughter of Thorbiorn Sur, the mother of Snorri the Priest; and Gudny said that they were small bones of a woman, and as black as if they had been singed."