Berle-Kari
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Berle-Kari (Berle-Kåre; Old Norse: Berðlu-Kári) was a viking chieftain who lived in ninth-century Norway. His home was at Berle (Old Norse: Berðla), in present-day Bremanger in Sogn og Fjordane county. Landnámabók names him as the son of Vemund, and brother of Skjoldolf, one of the early settlers of Iceland.
According to Egil's Saga , Kari was a berserker, and a comrade-at-arms of Ulf the Fearless (Úlfr inn óargi).[a] . The saga also Kari's three offspring as: Olvir Hnufa, who became a skald in the court of Harald I of Norway, Eyvind Lambi, who became one of Harald's hersirs, and a daughter, Salbjorg, who married Kveldulf Bjalfason. Kveldulf being grandson of the elder Ulf.[2] [b]
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- ^ Sayers, William (2016), "Verbal Expedients and Transformative Utterances in Episodes of Egils saga Skallagrímssonar", Scandinavian Studies, 88 (2): 182 (endnote 1),
[Phillip] Theisohn errs on several points of detail: ... Úlfr inn óargi, not Kveldúlfr ([2009 paper, ] 148), is Berðlu-Kári's partner in the opening chapter of the saga. ]
- ^ Egil's Saga (Chapter 1, Pálsson & Edwards 1976, p. 21). See Pálsson and Edwards' introduction, where the stemma indicates Kveldulf and Salbjorg are spouses (p. 14) and Berle-Kari is Egil's great-grandfather(p. 11)
- ^ Sayers, William (2015), "Generational Models for the Friendship of Egill and Arinbjǫrn" (PDF), Scripta Islandica, 66: 145,
the marriage of Úlfr's grandson, Úlfr Bjálfason (called Kveld-Úlfr), to Kári's daughter Salbjǫrg.
- Bibliography
- Ellwood, Rev. Thomas (1898). The Book of the Settlement of Iceland (Translated from the original Landnámabók by Ari Þorgilsson). Highgate, London: Kendal - T. Wilson.
- Pálsson, Hermann; Edwards, Paul (1976). Egil's Saga . London: Penguin Classics. pp. 11, 14, 21, 241.
- Thorsson, Örnólfur; Smiley, Jane, eds. (2001). "Egil's Saga" [translated by Bernard Scudder]. The Sagas of the Icelanders. Penguin Books. pp. 3–184. ISBN 978-0-14-100003-9.