asvald

Updated: May 3, 2025

They were tossed about the ocean during the whole summer, and knew not whither they were driven; but at the close of the first week of winter they landed at Lysufiord, in the western settlement of Greenland. There Thorstein died during the winter; and in the spring Gudrida returned again to Ericsfiord. There was a man named Thorwald; he was a son of Asvald, Ulf's son, Eyxna-Thori's son.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 : (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)

There was a man named Thorvald, the son of Asvald, the son of Ulf, the son of Yxna-Thoris. His son was named Eirik. It is near Vatzhorn. Then did Eirik's thralls cause a landslip on the estate of Valthjof, at Valthjofsstadr. Gerstein, and Odd of Jorfi, kinsman of Eyjolf, were found willing to follow up his death by a legal prosecution; and then was Eirik banished from Haukadalr.

- Eirik the Red's Saga