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it an unlikely one. Gottskálk, when he went to Iceland in 1486, may
have left Guðrún in Norway. In 1491—1492, when he visited Nor-
way, he might have had Oddur by her and in 1497, when he was
again in Norway, he might have had Guðrún by her.
17. It is generally agreed that Kristín was Bishop Gottskálk’s
oldest child and that her mother was certainly Valgerður.
18. BsksJH, I, 34.
19. HEl, II, 628.
20. Safn, Sec. Ser., I, 244.
21. I have to thank Professor Magnús Már Lárusson of the Uni-
versity of Iceland for drawing my attention to DI, VI, No. 561,
which I had overlooked. This document definitely establishes that
Gottskálk was in Iceland in May of 1487, and one may thus confi-
dently conclude that he had arrived there in 1486 or earlier.
22. His name occurs on a document dated 13 April 1491 (DI, VI,
744) and then not again until 2 December 1492 (DI, VII, 149). We
know from another document (DI, VII, 212) that he left Norway
for Iceland in the spring of 1492.
23. According to the testimony of her son Gottskálk Jónsson (ca.
1524—1590) (Islandske Annaler, ed. G. Storm, Christiania, 1888,
p. 378).
24. By Jón Sigurðsson (1811—1879) but on what grounds is not
known (Safn, II, 120).
25. DI, XIII, 134: “oc var sveinn Ogmundar biskups.”
26. Safn, I, 76.
27. HEI, III, 202—203.
28. MM, II, 294. Páll Eggert Ólason thinks that Peterson’s
friendly feelings toward Icelanders may stem from Oddur’s study
under him (ibid. 295).
29. Sýslumannaœfir, p. 338.
30. DI, VII, 516, 548, 614; XI, 60.
Professor Magnús Már Lárusson has pointed out to me that Gutt-
ormur was the second husband of Guðríður, the daughter of the
lawman Finnbogi Jónsson. Guðriður died about the end of Fe-
bruary or beginning of March 1500 (DI, VII, 477; cf. 647, 807).
Her first husband was Sveinn Sumarliðason who owned the estate
Grund in Eyjafjord and who appears to have died about 1496 (DI,
VII, 317; cf. 477), the year in which Guðríður sold Grund to her
father. Professor Lárusson conjectures that relations between Finn-
bogi and Bishop Gottskálk may have been close and that Finnbogi
may have arranged the marriage between Guttormur and his
daughter in order to safeguard his possession of Grund, for it
would fall to the lot of Bishop Gottskálk to sit in judgment on the
testamentary disposal of Grund. And indeed, in 1503 Eiríkur Sum-
arliðason, the brother of Sveinn, summoned Finnbogi to appear be-
fore the archbishop of Nidaros and the State Council in Norway to
answer charges relating to Grund and other matters touching the
will of Eiríkur’s grandfather, Eiríkur Loptsson (DI, VII, 646). This
would explain Guttormur’s absence from Iceland 1503—1505. From
the above one may conclude that Guttormur may have been in Ice-
iand as early as 1496. I wish to express my thanks to Professor
Lárusson for this information.
31. ilíilí, II, 235—236, 287; Jón Helgason, Kristnisaga Islands,
Reykjavík, 1925—1927, II, 22.