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4 unusual facts about Eyrbyggja saga


Bjǫrn the Easterner

Bjǫrn the Easterner is a character in such works as Laxdæla saga, Eyrbyggja saga, and Eirik the Red's Saga.

Eyrbyggja saga

Thorolf is reincarnated as a Draugr and a frightening marauder who leaves his tomb to cause devastation around Þórsnes.

The title is slightly misleading as it deals also with the clans from Þórsnes and Alptafjörðr on Iceland.

All of the events of the Saga take place in one small region of Snæfellsnes, shifting between Álptafjord, which cuts into the northern shore of the peninsula, and Helgafell, the farmstead on Thórsnes, where Snorri Goði resided.


Grundarfjörður

The name of the lava field comes from the Eyrbyggja saga, according to which two Berserkers were slain here by their master, because one of them fell in love with his master's daughter.


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