1. Síðan fara þeir til skips ok láta í haf ok eru úti aukit1 hundrað dœgra, ok koma af hafi vestr í Dýrafjǫrð2 á syðri strǫnd, í ós þann, er Haukadalsóss3 heitir. 2. Tveir menn eru nefndir, ok bjó á sinni strǫndinni hvárr, Þorkatlar tveir. 3. Annar bjó á Saurum í Keldudal4 á enni syðri strǫnd; þar var Þorkell Eireksson; en annar bjó á nyrðri strǫnd í Alviðru;5 hann var kallaðr Þorkell6 auðgi. 4. Þorkell fór fyrstr virðingamanna til skips, ok hitti Þorbjǫrn súr; því at hann var svá kallaðr, síðan hann varðiz7 með sýrunni. 5. Ǫll lǫnd váru þá ónumin8 á hvárritveggju strǫnd. Nú keypti Þorbjǫrn súrr land á enni syðri strǫnd, á Sæbóli9 í Haukadal. Þar gerði Gísli bœ, ok búa þar síðan. 6. Bjartmarr10 hét maðr, er bjó í Arnarfirði11 inni í botni;12 en kona hans hét Þuríðr, ok var Hrafnsdóttir13 af Ketilseyri14 ór Dýrafirði; en Hrafn var sonr Dýra, er fjǫrðinn nam;15 þau áttu sér bǫrn; hét dóttir þeira Hildr,16 hón var ellzt barna þeira; Helgi hét sonr þeira, Sigurðr ok Vestgeirr.17 7. Vésteinn hét Austmaðr einn, er út kom um landnám ok vistaðiz með Bjartmari. Hann gengr at eiga Hildi dóttur hans; ok er þau hǫfðu eigi lengi ásamt verit, gátu þau tvau bǫrn að eiga, Auður hét dóttir þeira, en Vésteinn sonr. Vésteinn austmaðr var Végeirsson, bróðir Vébjarnar Sygnakappa.18 8. Bjartmarr var sonr Áns rauðfelds Grímssonar loðinkinna, bróður19 Ǫrvar-Odds, Ketilssonar20 hœings sonar Hallbjarnar hálftrǫlls;21 Móðir Áns rauðfelds var Helga dóttir Áns bogsveigis.22 9. Vésteinn Vésteinsson gerðiz fardrengr góður; þó átti hann bú í Ǫnundarfirði undir Hesti,23 þá er hér var komit sǫgunni; kona hans hét Gunnhildr,24 Bergur hét sonr hans ok Helgi. 10. Nú eptir þetta andaz Þorbjǫrn súrr, ok Þóra kona hans. Nú tekr Gísli ok Þorkell bróðir hans, við búinu; en þau Þorbjǫrn ok Þóra váru í haug lǫgð.
1: aukit, “increased”, meaning, “more than” (120 days). ↩
2: Dýrafjǫrð, one of the western fjords in Isafarðarsýsla (see Ezrb. c. 12,2); the fjord is named after Dýri, the first settler in this area (Landn. II c. 27 und unten § 6). ↩
3: Haukadalsóss, shortened for -dals-áróss (9,1), “the mouth of the river in Haukadalr”; Haukadalr is a small valley on the south coast of the fjord. ↩
4: Saurum í Keldudal, der Keldudalr is the outermost (first) valley on the south side of Dýrafjords; The settlement Saurar (so called beause of the bogs) still exists today (Kålund I, 569). ↩
5: Alviðru, the settlement still exists (Kålund I, 578); this name represents that winds from every direction could blow alternately and almost incessantly. ↩
6: Þorkell, that is, . Þ. Eiríksson in Keldudalr. ↩
7: varðiz, “defended himself.” ↩
8: ónumin, at nema land has two meanings: “to claim land without owners” und “a tract of land that although is claimed, remains vacant and deserted, [uncultivated]”; see K. Gíslason in Safn til sögu Islands I, 702; the latter is meant here, but the statement that all lands were vacant is a gross exaggeration. Landn. II, 27, states that the land was fully developed and that Þorbjǫrn was given the land as a gift. ↩
9: á Sœbóli, the name is anticipated. About Haukdalr and the other locations mentioned in the saga, see S. Vigfússen’s research in Árbók hins ísl. fornleifafjelags für 1883, where a diagram is also included. The settlement Sæból no longer exists as such, but the ruins are still clearly visible. About the skáli of the settlement, see Árbók 1888–92, s 135. ↩
10: Bjartmarr, marr is equivilant to mœrr (Proto-Norse -māriR) “famous”; see Noreen2 § 121, 1. ↩
11: Arnarfirði (so named after the landnámsmaðr Ǫrn) south of Dýrafjord. Arnarfjǫrðr is divided into two inlets by a protruding peninsula, the northern one considered to be the continuation of the actual fjord. The settlement lies at the innermost parts of the fjord–the botn (this not a peculiar name: see Kålund I, 565); this location in S appears as Ey; it is probably identical to todayś Borg; see Árbók 1883, s 40-41. ↩
12: botni, the head of the fjord. ↩
13: Þuríðr–Hrafnsdóttir, after Landn. II, 27 (c. 139/111 of 1900) Þuríðr was just married to Vésteinn Vésteinsson. The wife of Bjartmar was probbably also called Þúriðr, beacuse the daughter of his son Helgi was named after his grandmother; see Landn. II, 26 (c. 135 u. 107 of 1900). In S the woman is not named. ↩
14: Ketilseyri, on the south side of the fjord. ↩
15: Dýra–nam, vgl. § 1. nam=”had been taken (in posession).” ↩
16: Hildr, in S Gunnhildr, in Landn. Þórhildr. ↩
17: Sigurðr ok Vestgeirr corresponds to the tveir Végestar of Landn. Vestgeirr is not named in S. ↩
18: Vésteinn–Sygnakappa, this sentence, which matches exactly in Landn. II, 27, looks like an interpolation.
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19: bróður, so must it be read (not bróðir), and this refers to Áns; this whole genealogy appears to touch on a combination of information from Landn. and Ǫrvar-Odds saga. ↩
20: Ketílssonar, apposition to Grímss. loðinkinna. ↩
21: Ketílssonar–hálfrǫlls, see Egilssaga I, 1. ↩
22: Bjartmarr–bogsveigis; the same is true of this sentence and several genealogical remarks that follows. ↩
23: Ǫnnundarfirði–Hesti; Ǫnnndarfjǫrðr_, north of Dýrafjord; the settlement hestr (as appears here: undir Hesti“the settlement under the mountain Hestr); now Hafrschestr, lies at the end of the fjord. ↩
24: Gunnhildr, in Landn. Þuríðr, see § 6; the same sons are mentioned in Landn. ↩