Einarr Hafliðason

Einar Hafliðason (medieval Icelandic Einarr Hafliðason), 15 September 1307 – 22 September 1393 was an

Icelandic

priest and author.

Biography

He became a priest in 1334 with the benefice of Höskuldsstaðir á

Laurentius saga

is an important witness to the lives of its members.

Einar was the son of Hafliði Steinsson, who had been a priest of the Norwegian king, a ráðsmaðr (steward) at

Þingeyri at the age of 10, later becoming a follower and secretary for Lárentíus. Too ill at the time to ordain Einarr, Lárentíus sent Einarr to the southern diocese of Skálholt for consecration there by Bishop Jón Halldórsson

in 1332.

Einarr is also one of the few fourteenth-century Icelanders known to have travelled outside Scandinavia. According to his annals, in 1347 Einarr "geck ... af landi brott. ok for til paua gardz ok var j Auinione .ix. nætr. for vm Frankarike aftr ok fram. ok var j Paris. vm nockorn tima" ("went ... away from the land [Norway], and travelled to the papal court, and was in Avignon for nine nights, and travelled widely in France, and was in Paris for some time").^[2]

Einarr's son was Árni, a farmer at Auðbrekka í Hörgárdal, the father of Þorleifr Árnason.

Notes

^ Alfræði íslenzk: islandsk encyclopædisk litteratur, ed. by Kristian Kålund, Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk litteratur, 37, 41, 45, 3 vols (Copenhagen: Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk Litteratur, 1908-18) i (1908), pp. 57-59.
^ Lögmannsannáll, in Islandske annaler indtil 1578, ed. by Gustav Storm (Christiania: Grøndahl, 1888), p. 274.

Sources

http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=3552604, 'Fornir bæir undir Hekluhrauni', Sunnudagsblað Tímans, 5. April 1964.
http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=3560386, 'Pétur Nikulásson Hólabiskup', Sunnudagsblað Tímans, 6. June 1971.
Elton, Oliver (trans.), The Life of Laurence Bishop of Hólar in Iceland (London: Rivington, 1890), available at https://archive.org/details/lifeoflaurencebi00einauoft.
Árni Björnsson (ed.), Laurentius saga biskups, Rit handritastofunar Íslands, 3 (Reykjavík: Handritastofnun Íslands, 1969).
Guðrún Ása Grímsdóttir (ed.), Biskupa sögur III - Árna saga biskups, Lárentius saga biskups, Söguþáttr Jóns Halldórssonar biskups, Biskupa ættir, Íslenzk fornrit, 17 (Reykjavík: Hið Íslenzka fornritfélag, 1998).

[1] Alfræði íslenzk: islandsk encyclopædisk litteratur, ed. by Kristian Kålund, Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk litteratur, 37, 41, 45, 3 vols (Copenhagen: Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk Litteratur, 1908-18) i (1908), pp. 57-59.

[2] Lögmannsannáll, in Islandske annaler indtil 1578, ed. by Gustav Storm (Christiania: Grøndahl, 1888), p. 274.

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