Öndóttur kráka ("the crow") Erlingsson (born c. 892) is the name of a
viking
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden),
who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9 ...
chief and one of
Iceland's first settlers.
Biography
His history is intertwined with that of
Sleitu-Björn Hróarsson and the
Skagafjörður
Skagafjörður () is a deep fjord and its valley in northern Iceland.
Location
Skagafjörður, the fjord, is about 40 km long and 15 km wide, situated between Tröllaskagi to the east and the Skagi, Skagi Peninsula to the west. Ther ...
region. He established his estate in
Viðvíkursveit
Viðvíkursveit is a district in Skagafjörður, Iceland east of the Héraðsvötn, on the border of Akrahreppur along the Kyrfisá river to Kolka and on the east side towards the mouth of Hjaltadalur valley. It comprises the same area as Viðv ...
, which previously belonged to Sleitu-Björn. His grandson, Thorvardur Sage-Böðvarsson, built the first church in
Hjaltadalur
Hjaltadalur is a valley on the east side of Skagafjörður, Iceland that was previously a part of Hólahreppur. The majority of the valley is surrounded by 1,000–2,000-meter-tall mountains, and it intersects with various remote valleys. Hjalt ...
in 984. The
Ásbirningar
The Ásbirnings or Ásbirningar (Old Norse: ; Modern Icelandic: ) were a powerful family clan in the medieval Icelandic Commonwealth. They dominated Skagafjörður in the 12th and 13th centuries until their last leader died in the Battle of Haugsn ...
family clan claimed to be Öndóttur's descendants.
His son Böðvar Öndottsson (born 920) appears in the
Gull-Þóris saga.
[Þorskfirðinga saga (filmed 1948), Valdimar Ásmundsson, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmet av the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1948), FHL 73,227 Item 10., pt. 2, p. 4, 49, 52, 54.]
References
Bibliography
*Ólafur Lárusson (1940), Landnám í Skagafirði, Sögufélag Skagfirðinga (in Icelandic)
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Skagafjörður
9th-century Icelandic people
890s births
Year of death unknown