The Oddaverjar (Old Norse: [ˈodːɑˌwerjɑz̠]; Modern Icelandic: [ˈɔtːaˌvɛrjar̥]) were a powerful family clan in the medieval Icelandic Commonwealth. They...
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Oddi (Old Norse: [ˈodːe]) was the central home of the powerful family, Oddaverjar. The two best known leaders in Oddi were Sæmundur Sigfússon the Learned...
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Oddaverjaannáll (from Old Norse, Oddaverjar's Annals) is a medieval Icelandic manuscript written around the 16th century. Apart from the chronology of...
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His life is recorded in Páls saga biskups. Páll was a descendant of the Oddaverjar family clan. He is known as a patron of the celebrated artist Margret...
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the Icelandic Commonwealth – Icelandic clans: Ásbirningar; Haukdælir; Oddaverjar; Sturlungar; Svínfellingar; Vatnsfirðingar) Greenland Norsemen (mainly...
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grasp of a few family clans. They were: The Haukdælir, of Árnesþing The Oddaverjar, of Rangárvellir [is] The Ásbirningar, of Skagafjörður The Vatnsfirðingar...
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at Rangárvellir in the south part of Iceland. He was a member of the Oddaverjar family clan and was the son of Sæmundur fróði who had established a school...
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at Rangárvellir in the south part of Iceland. He was a member of the Oddaverjar clan and son of Icelandic priest and scholar Sæmundur fróði Sigfússon...
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13th century Njal's saga. The farm later became the residence of the Oddaverjar chieftains. The chief Jón Loftsson lived here and is believed to be buried...
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Iceland he founded a long-lived school at Oddi. He was a member of the Oddaverjar clan and was the father of Loftur Sæmundsson. Sæmundr wrote a work, probably...
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Rangárvellir in the south part of Iceland. Jón Loftsson was a member of the Oddaverjar family clan. His parents were Loftur Sæmundsson and Þóra Magnúsdóttir...
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of Hestur and later Stórólfshvoll and Ingigerður Filippusdóttir of the Oddaverjar. Her sister, Guðrún Þorsteinsdóttir, was married to the chieftain Kolbeinn...
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respective part of the island, mainly the Sturlungar, the Ásbirningar, the Oddaverjar, the Haukdælir, the Vatnsfirðingar, and the Svínfellingar. During this...
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to konungsannáll, Magnús obtained the support of the clans Haukdælir, Oddaverjar and Svínfellingar to become bishop of Skálholt in 1236, but he did not...
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Norway in 1153. Many bishops in the period were related to the Haukdaelir, Oddaverjar or other powerful families. Laymen often required bishops to act as impartial...
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translated into Chinese), Dating the Icelandic Saga (1958), a book on the Oddaverjar (Sagnaritun Oddaverja, 1937), and in his introduction to Jónas Kristjánsson's...
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