Hallveig Fróðadóttir (fl. 870s) is traditionally considered Iceland's first female settler. She was married to Íngolfr Arnarson, the first settler of Iceland and founder of

Reykjavík Reykjavík is the Capital city, capital and largest city in Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland on the southern shore of Faxaflói, the Faxaflói Bay. With a latitude of 64°08′ N, the city is List of northernmost items, the worl ...

. According to ''

Landnámabók (, "Book of Settlements"), often shortened to , is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement () of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE. is divided into five parts and ov ...

'', she was the daughter of Fróði and the sister of Loft the Old. She and Íngolfr had a son, Þorsteinn, who established an early

thing Thing or The Thing may refer to: Philosophy * An object * Broadly, an entity * Thing-in-itself (or ''noumenon''), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant * Thing theory, a branch of critical theory that focuses ...

Kjalarnes Kjalarnes () is the least populous district in the municipality of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridg ...

. Through him, she was the grandmother of the

lawspeaker A lawspeaker or lawman ( Swedish: ''lagman'', Old Swedish: ''laghmaþer'' or ''laghman'', Danish: ''lovsigemand'', Norwegian: ''lagmann'', Icelandic: , Faroese: '' løgmaður'', Finnish: ''laamanni'', ) is a unique Scandinavian legal offic ...

Þorkell máni Þorsteinsson. Another child, Þórnýja, is mentioned in the late

Kjalnesinga saga Kjalnesinga saga (, ) is one of the sagas of Icelanders (''Íslendingasögur)''. It is preserved in a parchment manuscripAM 471 4to The work concerns historical ages from the ninth to eleventh centuries, and was composed in the fourteenth century, ...

. She gives her name to Iceland’s first diesel tug and to the women’s centre Hallveigarstaðir in Reyjavík.

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