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Norse Sagas · F. York Powell
THERE WAS A man named Grim Camban. He first settled the Færeys in the days of Harold Fairhair. For before the king’s overbearing many men fled in those days. Some settled in the Færeys and began to dwell there, and some sought to other waste lands. And the deeply wealthy fared to Iceland, and on her way thither she came to the Færeys, and there she gave Olof the daughter of Thorstan the Red in marriage: whence is come the greatest lineage of the Færey-folk, whom they call the Gatebeards, that dwell in Eastrey. THORBEORN WAS THE name of a man who was nicknamed Gatebeard. He dwelt in Eastrey in the Færeys; Gudrun was the name of his wife. They had two sons. The elder was named Thorlac, but the younger Thrond. They were likely men. Thorlac was both tall and strong; so far Thrond was like him when he was full grown, but there was a great unlikeness between the two brothers. Thorbeorn was a …
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