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These people were further connected through marital bonds: the son
of Ulfr, Atli inn rauði, was married to a daughter of Steinolfr, Þorbjǫrg,76
and their son, Már, was married to Þorkatla, the daughter of Hergils
hnappraz after whom Hergilsey is named,77 and whose father was Þrándr
mjóbeinn; in other words, she was the sister of Ingjaldr in Hergilsey. The
wife of Þrándr mjóbeinn was the daughter of Gils skeiðarnef, whose other
daughter, Þorbjǫrg knarrarbringa, married Jǫrundr, the son of Ulfr inn
skjalgi.78 There were thus multiple bonds for generations between these
families from Agder.
Aside from this clustering in Breiðafjörður and in the Westfjords,
there is mention of some people from Agder who settled in other areas,
but these are fewer by far. Several places in Landnámabók mention a
certain Ǫndóttr kráka, “er bjó í Hvínisfirði á Ǫgðum” and was married
to Signý Sighvatsdóttir from Hlíðir in Víkin, and who was a kinsman
by marriage to Helgi inn magri.79 Ǫndóttr’s sons were Ásmundr and
Ásgrímr, who came separately to Iceland and both settled in Eyjafjörður; in
Landnámabók, the family of Ásgrímr is traced down to Hvamm-Sturla.80
Together with Ásmundr a certain Bǫðolfr ór Hvíni came to Iceland,81
the son of a Grímr Grímolfsson “af Ǫgðum”, who took land at Tjǫrnes
in Suður-Þingeyjarsýsla in North Iceland.82 Later, a daughter of Bǫðolfr,
Þorgerðr, was married to Ásmundr.83 Moreover, Ǫndóttr kráka had a sis-
ter’s son, Þrándr mjǫksiglandi.84 Of him it is told that he “var í Hafrsfirði
mót Haraldi konungi ok varð síðan landflótti ok kom til íslands síð land-
námatíðar”; here we have an explicit reference to someone who fought in
76 In Sturlubók and Hauksbók it is said that Þorbjǫrg was a sister of Steinolfr, but she was
more likely his daughter, as related in Melabók (see comment in Íslendingabók. Land-
námabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson, 161).
77 Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson, 161.
78 Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson, 161, 163.
79 Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson, 248. Peculiarly, this Ǫndóttr kráka
has the same name, but in masculine form, as Ǫndótt, the mother of Steinolfr inn lági (see
above). Possibly, different persons have been mixed up here, since the name, whether male
or female, is uncommon.
80 Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson, 264–67.
81 Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson, 265.
82 Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson, 278–80.
83 Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson, 265.
84 Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson, 249, 260.