Well, as soon as this Bjorn heard that Ari had brought home a fair wife with a rich dower, he thought he would have a finger in that pie. All raised an outcry when he came, and all were fain when he went away. No wonder he was unbeloved by the people, for he turned aside as he listed into the houses of men, and took a way their wives and daughters, and kept them with him as long as he liked. Twelve men went at his heel, and besides he was skilled in the black art, and no steel could touch his skin. He was a Bearsark, and much given to duels. Thorkel gave over to his son Ari a rich farm up in the dale, and there he set up his abode, and was looked on as a most rising man.īut now our story goes on to tell of a man named Bjorn, nicknamed Bjorn the Black. He got a great dower with her, and amongst the rest that she brought with her from her home was a man named Kol: he was of high degree, but he had been taken captive in war, and was called a Thrall. Ari, Thorkel's son, asked her to wife, and she was wedded to him. His daughter's name was Ingibjorga, and she was the fairest of women. There was a man too, named Isi, who ruled over the Fjardarfolk. The name of the eldest was Ari, the second was called Gisli, and the third Thorbjorn. He had a wedded wife, and three sons by her. Chapter 1 - The Thrall's CurseĪt the end of the days of Harold Fairhair there was a mighty lord in Norway whose name was Thorkel Goldhelm, and he dwelt in Surnadale in North Mæren. DaSent from the original Icelandic 'Gísla saga Súrssonar'.
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