The Old Ways

Norse · The Story of the Ere-Dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga), with the Story of the Heath-Slayings · 49 of 93

CHAPTER XLVIII. OF THORBRAND's SONS IN GREENLAND.

tr. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1892)

AFTER the peace between the men of Ere and the Swanfirthers, Thorbrand's sons Snorri and Thorleif went out to Greenland. After Thorleif is called Kimbi's Bay in Greenland, betwixt the jokuls. So Thorleif lived to be old in Greenland, but Snorri went to Vineland the Good with Karlsefni, and in battle with the Skraelings in Vineland there fell Snorri Thorbrandson, the bravest of men.

Thorod Thorbrandson abode behind in Swanfirth, and had to wife Ragnhild, daughter of Thord, son of Thorgils the Eagle, who was the son of Hallstein, the Priest of Hallstein-ness, the thrall-owner.