Jorunn Bjarnadottir

Jórunn Bjarnadóttir is a female character who appears in Laxdœla saga, one of the Icelandic family sagas (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur). She first appears in chapter 9, where she is introduced as the wife of a powerful Icelandic chieftain (Icelandic: goði) Höskuldr Dala-Kollson from Höskuldsstaðir in Laxárdalur, Iceland.[MAP][1]

Family

Jórunn Bjarnadóttir is the daughter of Björn who settled Bjarnarfjörðr in North-Western Iceland. [MAP] He is descriped as being both highly-born and very wealthy (stórættaður maður og auðigr að fé).[2] Jórunn's mother is a woman named Ljúfa, although no further description is given.[3] However, Jana K. Schulman in her article "Make Me a Match: Motifs of Betrothal in the Sagas of the Icelanders." suggests that in the sagas, successful relationships are portrayed as being composed of partners of equal status and standing. This would then indicate that Ljúfa would have come from a similar background as husband, Björn.[4]

Relationship with Höskuldr

  1. ↑ “Laxdœla saga.” in Laxdœla Saga, edited by Einar Ól. Sveinsson, 1–248. Vol. 5. Íslenzk Fornrit. Reykjavík: Hið Íslenzka Fornritafélag, 1934, chapter 9.
  2. ↑ “Laxdœla saga.” in Laxdœla Saga, edited by Einar Ól. Sveinsson, 1–248. Vol. 5. Íslenzk Fornrit. Reykjavík: Hið Íslenzka Fornritafélag, 1934, chapter 9.
  3. ↑ “Laxdœla saga.” in Laxdœla Saga, edited by Einar Ól. Sveinsson, 1–248. Vol. 5. Íslenzk Fornrit. Reykjavík: Hið Íslenzka Fornritafélag, 1934, chapter 9.
  4. ↑ Schulman, Jana K. “Make Me a Match: Motifs of Betrothal in the Sagas of the Icelanders.” Scandinavian Studies 69, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 296–321.
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