Eyrbyggja saga, part 2.

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Björn decides to go to Iceland because of his disappointment over the now-Christian family. There's a Hallsteinn with him who's actually the son of Þórólfur, but he's like "dad plz" and moves away to settle land on his own.

Meanwhile Auður's in trouble over in Scotland. She manages an unbelievable amount of ship-building, avoiding raging Scots, sailing out with all her goods intact and marrying her daughters off here and there. Then she arrives to Iceland and starts naming places based on where she had a great day or lost her comb, no lie check Laxdæla.



7.

Björn's children are Kjallakur Old and Óttar, babies are being made so much that the entire family line is called Kjallakers, blah blah Björn dies. Þórólfur Beardeous Awesomefacialhair marries an Unnur though he's quite old. They still manage to make baby Þórsteinn.

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I pity anyone who tries to read this chapter in the real saga and remember who each person mentioned in it are. Fun fact most of them have nothing to do with the saga lol.

There's another Þórólfur dude but thankfully he raises a fuss about some bit of land, goes to holm with a dude who chops him in the leg so well that he's called Þórólfur Lame after that. No way are you going to confuse Lame with Beardylicious. He's an asshole but has three kids, Arnkell, Gunnfríður and Geirríður.

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Back to Hallsteinn who's a son of Beardy. Oh but Þórólfur Bread dies, that's sad won't see a beard like that again. Anyway Hallsteinn makes baby Þorsteinn and fosters another Þorsteinn, so he calls his own son Þorsteinn Codeater to make some difference between the two I assume.

Kjallakers become rich and powerful and, alas, snooty. They declare they'll poop everywhere they want to (yes), not only in Shitnes.

Þorsteinn Codeater: "OH YEAH? Ok everyone who's called Þór-something come here we have work to do."

*massive group of Þór-somethings appears*

There's a huge battle over shitting rights and lots of people die. Both sides swear revenge on each other. Idk there's lots of blood now all over that holy ground where you were not allowed to poop - but heyyyyy wasn't another rule of Þórólfur Beardsome's that you were not allowed to shed blood there either...?

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A Þórður comes to help sort out the mess.

Kjallakers: "WE WILL BLOODY WELL SHIT WHEREVER WE LIKE"

Þorsteinn: "YOU WILL BE WELL BLOODY SHITS IF YOU EVEN TRY TO"

Þórður: "SHUT UP EVERYONE"

End result: no fines for anyone to pay, the bloodied field is declared non-holy because of, yes, all that blood on it. Þórður pays lots of money, gives out jobs and marries his kinswoman just to make sure that all sides of the argument are now indebted to him. Peace ensues, Þing place has to be moved a bit because you cannot have a Þing on unholy ground.

Btw the blood thing only applies to fighting: the saga then goes on to say that the men who were to be sacrificed to Þór were broken over a stone there that's still red. But this is ok blood and bears no unholying effects.



Part 3.