See also

Family of Ingólfur ARNARSON and Hallveig FRÓÐADÓTTIR

  • Husband:

  • Ingólfur ARNARSON (844?- )

  • Wife:

  • Hallveig FRÓÐADÓTTIR (c. 850- )

  • Children:

  • Þórný INGÓLFSDÓTTIR (c. 870- )

  •  

  • Þorsteinn INGÓLFSSON (c. 890- )

  • Marriage:

  • "??"

  • Norway1

  • Residence (family):

  •  

  • Ingólfshöfði, Iceland

  • Residence (family):

  • 0874

  • what is now Reykjavík, Gullbringusýsla, Iceland

  • residence family:

  •  

  • Reykjavíkurkaupstaður, Reykjavík, Gullbringusýsla, Iceland

  • Resided (family):

  • 0874

  • Reykjavíkurkaupstaður, Reykjavík, Gullbringusýsla, Iceland

Husband: Ingólfur ARNARSON

  • Name:

  • Ingólfur ARNARSON2,3

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Örn BJÖRNÓLFSSON (c. 800- )

  • Mother:

  • Not KNOWN ( - )

  • Birth:

  • 0844 (est)

  • Dalsfjord, Fjalar Province, Norway1,2,4

  • Residence:

  • 0874 (age 29-30)

  • Ingólfshöfði, Iceland1

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • Landnámsmaður; Reykjavíkurkaupstaður, Reykjavík, Gullbringusýsla, Iceland4

  • Death:

  • "??"

  • Iceland

Wife: Hallveig FRÓÐADÓTTIR

  • Name:

  • Hallveig FRÓÐADÓTTIR2,5

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 0850

  • Norway ?2

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • landnámskona (female settler); Reykjavíkurkaupstaður, Reykjavík, Gullbringusýsla, Iceland4

  • Death:

  • "??"

  • Iceland

Child 1: Þórný INGÓLFSDÓTTIR

  • Name:

  • Þórný INGÓLFSDÓTTIR2,6

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Helgi "bjóla“ KETILSSON (c. 855- )

  • Birth:

  • c. 0870

  • Iceland ?2

  • Residence:

  •  

  • Reykjavíkurkaupstaður, Reykjavík, Gullbringusýsla, Iceland

  • Death:

  • "??"

  • Iceland

Child 2: Þorsteinn INGÓLFSSON

  • Name:

  • Þorsteinn INGÓLFSSON2,7

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Þóra HRÓLFSDÓTTIR (c. 890- )

  • Birth:

  • c. 0890

  • Norway2

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • farmer; Reykjavíkurkaupstaður, Reykjavík, Gullbringusýsla, Iceland4

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • Goðorðsmaður; Iceland

  •  

  • Gekkst fyrstur manna fyrir þinghaldi.

  • Occupation:

  • "from 930 until approximately 945"

  • allsherjargoði; Kjalarnes, the northernmost district of Reykjavik

  • Death:

  • "??"

  • Iceland

Note on Husband: Ingólfur ARNARSON (1)

hann staðfestist fyrstr á Íslandi, svá at menn kunni ættir sínar til at telja“, segir í Sturlungu. Faðir: Örn Björnólfsson.

Note on Husband: Ingólfur ARNARSON (2)

A custom of Viking chieftains about to settle a new land was to throw overboard their highseat pillars, an emblem of rank, and then to settle wherever the pillars washed ashore. Sometimes this procedure would take quite a while. Meantime, the settler would either stay in his ship or erect a temporary dwelling. He would send slaves or servants to scout for the pillars. It was considered a very bad omen if the pillars drifted out to sea.

 

Ingólfur released his pillars as soon as he sighted land. He went ashore at Ingolfshofdi and awaited the report of his scouts. Hjorleif continued sailing west until he landed at Hjorleifshofdi near Myrdalsjökull in southern Iceland. The following spring his Irish slaves revolted, killed him, and fled to the Vestmanna Islands, where Ingólfur tracked them down and killed them.

 

Ingólfur and Hjorleif disagreed about religion. Ingólfur frequently sacrificed to Thor and the other Norse gods, but Hjorleif never sacrificed. Ingólfur rationalized that Hjorleif's murder was the just deserts of someone who refused to sacrifice.

 

Two years after the death of Hjorleif and three years after landing in Iceland, Ingólfur's scouts found his highseat pillars on the south shore of a beautiful fjord in southwestern Iceland. He named the place Reykjavík (Smoky Bay) and built his homestead there. Within the next 60 years about 30,000 more Norwegian refugees settled in Iceland.

 

Ingólfur freed the two slaves, Vifil and Karli, who located his pillars. He married Hallveig, daughter of Frodi, and became a beneficent chieftain in the new country. His son, Thorstein, founded the Kjalarness Assembly, one of the regional assemblies that preceded the national assembly, the Althing.

Sources

1.

Ari the Learned, Landnámabók (The Book of Settlement).

2.

Islendingabok, Islendingabok.

3.

Ibid. Landnáma, Ann., Sturl., Flóamanna saga, Austurl.II, DI. I.

4.

Hálfdan Helgason, GenWeb.

5.

Islendingabok, Islendingabok. Landnáma.

6.

Ibid. Kjalnesinga saga.

7.

Ibid. Landnáma, Sturl., Esp.6793.