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BOOK II.
CHAP. III.
Auda widow
of K. Aulaf
of Dublin,
retires to
Iceland.
102 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
Another of the great grandsons of Cearbhall was
was
Thordus, who settled at Hofdastrondam. 1 He
fifth in descent from Regnar Lodbrog, and married
Fridgerda,the daughter of ThorisHyrnobyFridgerdu.
Cearbhall's daughter. 8
Thordus, son of Viking, who
settled at Alvidro, married Theoldhilda, daughter of
Eyvind Austman 3
; Ulf Skialgi, who colonized the
whole promontory of Reykeanes, married Beorgo,
another of his daughters/ consequently both w r ere
great grandsons of Cearbhall ;
siglandi, who colonized the country
and Thrandus Miok-
between Thiorsa
and Laxa, was son of Biorn, the brother of Eyvind
Austman. 6
The family of Aulaf, the Ostrnan king, no less
than that of the Irish Cearbhall, contributed to con-
nect Iceland with Dublin. After Aulafs death his
widow and her son, Thorstein, left Dublin,
kingdom
to which
Ivar and the Irish Cearbhall succeeded.
The Laxdeela Saga 6 relates that "Auda while in
Caithness heard that her son Thorsteinn the Red
was betrayed by the Scots and killed, and her
father, Ketill Flatnef, being also dead, she deemed
that her prosperity was at an end; She (Auda)
therefore caused a ship to be secretly built in a wood,
and when the ship was completed she furnished it,
placed all her wealth on board, and, with all those
of her kindred who remained alive," she sailed away
to the Orkneys, thence to the Fceroe islands, and
ultimately to Iceland, where her ship was wrecked. 7
1
Landnamab., p. 219.
*Ibid.
Ibid., p. 149.
*
Ibid., p. 132.
*
Ibid., pp. 228, 3fi3.
6 Laxdaela Saga, p. 9 ; Land-
namab, p. 107, et seij.
7
Landnamab., p. 106, et seq.