Page:The Heimskringla; or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway Vol 3.djvu/373

 KINGS OF NORWAY, 361 gi*eat consideration ; and many men are descended from him Ai'PENnix. and his wife Gudrid, and it was a good family. When Karlsefne died Gudrid took the management of his estate, and Snorro her son, who was born in Vinland. And when Snorro was married Gudrid went out of the country, and went to the south, and came back again to Snorro's estate, and he had built a church at Glamba3. Afterwards Gudrid became a nun, and lived a hermit-life, and did so as long as she lived. Snorro had a son called Thorgeir, who was father to Bishop Brand's mother Ingveld. The daughter of Snorro Karlsefnesson was called Halfrid. She was mother of Runolf, the father of Bishop Thorlak. Karlsefne and Gudrid had a son also called Biom» He was father of Thoruna, the mother of Bishop Biorn. Many people are descended from Karlsefne, and his kin have been lucky ; and Karlsefne has given the most par- ticular accounts of all these travels of which here something is related.