for there he had harried far and wide.




Chap. III

Ketill's Sons go to Iceland


[Sidenote: Of Bjorn in Iceland] After that Ketill made a great feast,
and at it he married his daughter Thorunn the Horned to Helgi the
Lean, as has been said before. After that Ketill arrayed his journey
west over the sea. Unn, his daughter, and many others of his relations
went with him. That same summer Ketill's sons went to Iceland with
Helgi, their brother-in-law. Bjorn, Ketill's son, brought his ship to
the west coast of Iceland, to Broadfirth, and sailed up the firth
along the southern shore, till he came to where a bay cuts into the
land, and a high mountain stood on the ness on the inner side of the
bay, but an island lay a little way off the land. Bjorn said that they
should stay there for a while. Bjorn then went on land with a few men,
and wandered along the coast, and but a narrow strip of land was there
between fell and foreshore. This spot he thought suitable for
habitation. Bjorn found the pillars of his temple washed up in a
certain creek, and he thought that showed where he ought to build his
house. Afterwards Bjorn took for himself all the land between
Staff-river and Lavafirth, and abode in the place that ever after was
called Bjornhaven. He was called Bjorn the Eastman. [Sidenote:
Ketill's doings in Scotland] His wife, Gjaflaug, was the daughter of
Kjallak the Old. Their sons were Ottar and Kjallak, whose son was