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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 103
Jler brothers, Biorn Austinan and Helgi Beola, with -BOOK n.
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her brother-in-law, Helgi Magri, had previously
settled in Iceland. There Auda fixed her residence Auda becomes
at the head of Huammsfiord, in the Dale country, 1
her brother-h-
and influenced by the example of Helgi Magri, who Ireland,
had been educated in Ireland, 2 and who, with his
family, had become Christians, 3 Auda also became a
convert, and opposite the Pagan temple she set up
the emblem ofher faith on the hill still called " Kross-
holar," where she and her household worshipped. 4
Although her descendants relapsed into Paganism, 5
Auda died firm in her faith, and unwilling that even
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her bones should lie in heathen ground, she directed
her burial to be on the sands 6 below high-water mark, Has her grave
and, after the manner of her Viking forefathers, her water, not to
ship was turned over her, and " a standing stone " sou.
(yet visible) was raised to mark the place of her
interment.
Nearly all the grandchildren
of Aulaf and Auda Auiaf and
also settled in Iceland, and established large families ChUd*reiSuier
there. Olaf Feilan, son of Thorstein the Red, married m
Asdisa Bareysku, daughter of Konall. 7
Their son,
Thordus Geller, became one ofthe most distinguished
of the Icelanders, and their daughter Thora, having
married Thorsteiun Thorskabitr, son of Thorolf
Mostrarskegg (the priest
and founder of the first
1
Eyrbyggia Saga,
the date A.D. 890.
p. 15, gives aries. Hakon's Saga, cap. xxvii.
King Hakon made many of the
to the field
p.
2
Landnamab., pp. 229. ships be drawn up
* 4
Ibid., 231. Ibid., p. 110. of battle. He ordered that all the
6 Ibid., p. 117. men of his army who had fallen
6 Kristni Saga, Hafniae, 1773, should be laid in the ships, and
1 7. Fridgerda was a violent covered with earth and stones, &c.
of the Christian mission-
~
Landuamab., p. 116,
opponent