Hafliði Másson (died 1130;

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goði Gothi or (plural , fem. ; Old Norse: ) was a position of political and social prominence in the Icelandic Commonwealth. The term originally had a religious significance, referring to a pagan leader responsible for a religious structure and com ...

and chieftain in the eleventh to twelfth centuries. He is best known for his dealings with Þorgils Oddason (1080–1151) and for having Iceland's law codified as the text that came to be known as

Grágás The Gray Goose Laws ( {{IPA, is, ˈkrauːˌkauːs}) are a collection of laws from the Icelandic Commonwealth period. The term ''Grágás'' was originally used in a medieval source to refer to a collection of Norwegian laws and was probably mis ...

. Hafliði was the son of the goði Már Húnröðarson from Breiðabólstaður í Vesturhópi; they claimed direct patrilineal descent from the settler Ævar gamli Ketilsson, whose dynasty was known as the Æverlingar.

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Konan á Breiðabólstað í Vesturhópi
''Sunndagsblað Tímans'', 19. August 1962. * ''Sturlungasaga I'' (Reykjavík: Svart á hvítu, 1988), pp. 7–46 (Þorgilssaga og Hafliða) * Lúðvík Ingvarsson, ''Goðorð og goðorðsmenn'', 3 vols. (Egilsstaðir 1987), III, pp. 197–200 and 300. 11th-century Icelandic people 12th-century Icelandic people 1130 deaths Goðar {{Iceland-bio-stub