The Eyrbyggja Saga on Vermund

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 21 - They Take Rede About The Blood-Feud.

• attestation: Vermund pledged loyalty to Thorarin regardless of whether they stayed or departed

  "Vermund said that he would not part from Thorarin whether he would that he should fare abroad with him, or give him fighting-help here in the land"

Chapter 1 - Herein Is Told How Ketil Flatneb Fares To West-Over-Sea. > Chapter 25 - Of Vermund And Thorarin In Norway; Of Those Bareserks.

• attestation: Vermund and Thorarin the Swart sailed to Throndheim in northern Norway

  "Vermund and Thorarin the Swart that they came up from the main as far north as Throndheim-mouth, and stretched in for Throndheim"

• attestation: Vermund requested the berserkers as his gift from the Earl, hoping they would protect him against his brother Stir's aggressions

  "he deemed that his brother Stir lay heavy on his fortune, and dealt unjustly with him as with most others when he could bring his strength to bear on him"

• attestation: Vermund arrived home in Bearhaven with the berserkers the same summer Eric the Red departed for Greenland

  "Vermund fared to Iceland with the Bareserks, and had a good voyage, and came home to his house in Bearhaven the same summer that Eric the Red went to Greenland"

• attestation: Vermund hosted a feast and tried to pass the berserkers to Arnkel the Priest, but Arnkel refused

  "Vermund a great feast, and bade Arnkel the Priest to him, and the men of Ere, and Stir his brother; and when the feast was over he offered to give the Bareserks to Arnkel, and calls that a thing of the fittest; but he will not take them"

• attestation: Vermund offered the berserkers to Stir as a gesture of reconciliation and renewed kinship

  "Now will I, brother, that we lay aside the coldness which was between us before I fared abroad, and take to faithful kinship and loving-kindness; and therewith will I give thee those men"

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

• attestation: Vermund told Thorgerd that Vigfus had trusted him most of all his kin, and instructed her to go find Steinthor in Ere

  "first I will that thou fare west to Ere and find Steinthor, Vigfus's kinsman; he is now at ease to fight, and it is now high time for him to try himself in some kind of case"

• attestation: Vermund devised a gruesome stratagem: Thorgerd should exhume Vigfus's head and present it to Arnkel to shame him into action

  "Now shalt thou go home, and let dig up Vigfus thy husband, and take his head and bring it to Arnkel, and say to him thus, that that head would not have weighed with others the taking up of the blood-suit after him"