their meeting was exceeding joyful.  Snorri asked Bolli to stay with him with as many of his men as he liked.  Bolli accepted the invitation gratefully, and was with Snorri all the winter, with the men who had ridden from the north with him.  Bolli got great renown from this journey.  Snorri made it no less his business Snorri’ now to treat Bolli with every kindness than death when he was with him before.

CHAP.  LXXVIII

The Death of Snorri, and the End, A.D. 1031

[Sidenote:  Snorri’ death] When Bolli had been one winter in Iceland Snorri the Priest fell ill.  That illness did not gain quickly on him, and Snorri lay very long abed.  But when the illness gained on him, he called to himself all his kinsfolk and affinity, and said to Bolli, “It is my wish that you shall take over the manor here and the chieftainship after my day, for I grudge honours to you no more than to my own sons, nor is there within this land now the one of my sons who I think will be the greatest man among them, Halldor to wit.”  Thereupon Snorri breathed his last, being seventy-seven years old.  That was one winter after the fall of St. Olaf, so said Ari the Priest “Deep-in-lore.”  Snorri was buried at Tongue. [Sidenote:  The descendants of Herdis] Bolli and Thordis took over the manor of Tongue as Snorri had willed it, and Snorri’s sons put up with it with a good will.  Bolli grew a man of great account, and was much beloved.  Herdis, Bolli’s daughter, grew up at Holyfell, and was the goodliest of all women.  Orm, the son of Hermund, the son of Illugi, asked her in marriage, and she was given in wedlock to him; their son was Kodran, who had for wife Gudrun, the daughter of Sigmund.  The son of Kodran was Hermund, who had for wife Ulfeid, the daughter of Runolf, who was the son of Bishop Kelill; their sons were Kelill, who was Abbot of Holyfell, and Reinn and Kodran and Styrmir; their daughter was Thorvor, whom Skeggi, Bard’s son, had for wife, and from whom is come the stock of the Shaw-men.  Ospak was the name of the son of Bolli and Thordis.  The daughter of Ospak was Gudrun, whom Thorarin, Brand’s son, had to wife.  Their son was Brand, who founded the benefice of Housefell.  Gellir, Thorleik’s son, took to him a wife, and married Valgerd, daughter of Thorgils Arison of Reekness.  Gellir went abroad, and took service with King Magnus the Good, and had given him by the king twelve ounces of gold and many goods besides.  The sons of Gellir were Thorkell and Thorgils, and a son of Thorgils was Ari the “Deep-in-lore.”  The son of Ari was named Thorgils, and his son was Ari the Strong.  Now Gudrun began to grow very old, and lived in such sorrow and grief as has lately been told.  She was the first nun and recluse in Iceland, and by all folk it is said that Gudrun was the noblest of women of equal birth with her in this land.  It is told how once upon a time Bolli came to Holyfell, for Gudrun was always very pleased