When Grettir came to Drangey the following chiefs were in Skagafjord:
Hjalti lived at Hof in Hjaltadal, the son of Thord, the son of Hjalti,
the son of Thord Skalp. He was a great chief, very distinguished and
very popular. His brother was named Thorbjorn Angle, a big man, strong
and hardy and rather quarrelsome. Thord their father had married in his
old age, and his then wife was not the mother of these two. She was
very much against her stepsons, especially Thorbjorn, because he was
intractable and headstrong. One day when he was playing at "tables",
his stepmother came up and saw that he was playing at "hnettafl"; they
played with big peg pieces. She considered that very lazy of him and
spoke some words to which he answered hastily. She took up the piece and
struck him on the cheek bone with the peg, and it glanced into his eye
which hung down on his cheek. He started up and handled her mercilessly
so that she was confined to her bed and soon afterwards died; they
say that she was pregnant at the time. After that he became a regular
ruffian. He took over his property and went first to live in Vidvik.
Halldor the son of Thorgeir, the son of Thord of Hofdi, lived at Hof
in Hofdastrand. He married Thordis the daughter of Thord, the sister of
Hjalti and Thorbjorn Angle. Halldor was a worthy bondi and wealthy.
Bjorn was the name of a man who lived at Haganes in Fljot, a friend of
Halldor of Hof, and the two held together in every dispute.
Tungu-Steinn dwelt at Steinsstadir. He was the son of Bjorn, the son of
Ofeig Thinbeard, the son of Crow-Hreidar, to whom Eirik of Guddal gave
Tunga below Skalamyr. He was a man of renown.
Eirik was the son of Holmgang-Starri, the son of Eirik of Guddal, the
son of Hroald, the son of Geirmund Straightbeard. He lived at Hof in
Guddal.
All these were men of high rank. Two brothers dwelt at a place called
Breida in Slettahlid, both named Thord. They were very strong men, but
peaceable.
All the men now named had a share in Drangey. It is said that the island
was owned by no fewer than twenty men, and none of them would part with
his share to the others. The largest share belonged to the sons of Thord
since they were the richest.