See also

Family of Sigfús LOÐMUNDARSON and Þórey EYJÓLFSDÓTTIR

  • Husband:

  • Sigfús LOÐMUNDARSON (c. 1020-c. 1076)

  • Wife:

  • Þórey EYJÓLFSDÓTTIR (c. 1028- )

  • Children:

  • Sæmundur "fróði“ SIGFÚSSON (1056-1133)

  • Marriage:

  • "??"

  • Iceland

  • residence family:

  •  

  • Oddi, Rangárvallahreppur, Rangárvallasýsla, Iceland

  • Residence (family):

  •  

  • Oddi, Rangárvallahreppur, Rangárvallasýsla, Iceland

  • Resided (family):

  •  

  • Oddi, Rangárvallahreppur, Rangárvallasýsla, Iceland

Husband: Sigfús LOÐMUNDARSON

  • Name:

  • Sigfús LOÐMUNDARSON1,2

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Loðmundur SVARTSSON (c. 985- )

  • Mother:

  • Þorgerður SIGFÚSDÓTTIR (c. 995- )

  • Birth:

  • c. 1020

  • Oddi, Rangárvallahreppur, Rangárvallasýsla, Iceland1,3

  • Occupation:

  • aft 1050 (age 29-30)

  • Prestur; Oddi, Rangárvallahreppur, Rangárvallasýsla, Iceland3

  •  

  • Fyrsti presturinn í Odda um 1050 (first priest at Odda, 1050)

  • Death:

  • c. 1076 (age 55-56)

  • Iceland3

Wife: Þórey EYJÓLFSDÓTTIR

Child 1: Sæmundur "fróði“ SIGFÚSSON

  • Name:

  • Sæmundur "fróði“ SIGFÚSSON5

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Guðrún KOLBEINSDÓTTIR (c. 1060- )

  • Birth:

  • 1056

  • Oddi, Rangárvallahreppur, Rangárvallasýsla, Iceland3,6

  • Occupation:

  • "from after 1076 to his death"

  • priest; Oddi, Rangárvallahreppur, Rangárvallasýsla, Iceland3

  •  

  • Taken from a book called the Key to Iceland.

    Oddi, a farm, church and parsonage. In Saga times the home of many of the foremost chieftains and scholars of Iceland. The well-known family line of Oddaverjar is from Oddi. Among them was Sæmundur Sigfússon the Learned (1056-1133), educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and considered by many to be the author of the elder EDDA. Statue of Sæmundur by Ásmundur Sveinsson erected there in 1998; replica of the one in front of the University of Reykjavík. Another outstanding man of his family was Jón Loftsson (1124-1197), who was the son of Þóra, daughter of Magnús "barefoot" Ólafssonar King of Norway. Snorri Sturluson, who was the author or the younger EDDA, HEIMSKRINGLA, the history of the Norwegian kings etc. and other works was brought up at Oddi by Jón Loftsson. Possibly Snorri got some of his information about the Norwegian royal families from his foster-mother þóra. The name EDDA is by some believed to be derived from the name Oddi. Six priests of Oddi later became bishops. Among the treasures in the church is a chalice from about 1300.

     

    Linden

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • goðorðsmaður (chieftain); Rangárvallasýsla, Iceland

  • Residence:

  •  

  • Oddi, Rangárvallahreppur, Rangárvallasýsla, Iceland

  • Education:

  •  

  • -; Paris, France

  •  

  • Fór erlendis og var til náms í París nokkur ár.

  • Death:

  • May 22, 1133 (age 76-77)

  • Iceland3,7

  •  

  • Cause: killed

Sources

1.

Islendingabok, Islendingabok.

2.

Ibid. Landnáma, Sturl., Njáls saga, Haukdæla þáttur, DI. I, Prestat.

3.

Hálfdan Helgason, GenWeb.

4.

Islendingabok, Islendingabok. Sturl., Landnáma, Þorsteins saga Síðu-Hallssonar, DI. I.

5.

Ibid. Landnáma, Sturl., Árb.Þing.69.19, Bysk., Sörla þáttur, Þorsteins saga Síðu-Hallssonar, Njáls saga, Ann., Haukdæla þáttur, Austurl.II, ÍÆ.IV.386, Prestat.

6.

Ibid. birth year.

7.

Ibid. death date.