CHAPTER V. Of Raven and his Kin.

There was a man called Onund, who dwelt in the south at Mossfell: he

was the wealthiest of men, and had a priesthood south there about the

nesses. He was married, and his wife was called Geirny. She was the

daughter of Gnup, son of Mold-Gnup, who settled at Grindwick, in the

south country. Their sons were Raven, and Thorarin, and Eindridi; they

were all hopeful men, but Raven was in all wise the first of them. He

was a big man and a strong, the sightliest of men and a good skald;

and when he was fully grown he fared between sundry lands, and was well

accounted of wherever he came.

Thorod the Sage, the son of Eyvind, then dwelt at Hjalli, south in

Olfus, with Skapti his son, who was then the spokesman-at-law in

Iceland. The mother of Skapti was Ranveig, daughter of Gnup, the son of

Mold-Gnup; and Skapti and the sons of Onund were sisters’ sons. Between

these kinsmen was much friendship as well as kinship.

At this time Thorfin, the son of Selthorir, dwelt at Red-Mel, and

had seven sons, who were all the hopefullest of men; and of them were

these--Thorgils, Eyjolf, and Thorir; and they were all the greatest men

out there. But these men who have now been named lived all at one and

the same time.

Next to this befell those tidings, the best that ever have befallen here

in Iceland, that the whole land became Christian, and that all folk cast

off the old faith.

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