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lCELASulC HISTORY.


seek yevslgm aai OF 90 so'd hoo'r.--Io.
i.Fl snh.
Thonioiu Red. the Oistin Mac Am
labh Of the Irish annals, was the son OF
Audur Diupaudsa, and Olaf White, the
king OF Ireland. Alter The death Of King
Olaf Audur went 10 Scotland, her son
Tnostcin afterwards becoming a Kin"
over the northern part Of that country,
presumably the counties OF Ross, Moray
aud Caiihness King Ih0utcin and his
queen, Thuud, were killed by the Scotch
DO so A. d., at which time bis mother
Auuur was IN Caithncss. One Of King
lhuuicin's men, "a Sc0tchman by the
name OF Vial. rescued his masters chill.
dfcn and He'd with them 10 their grand
mother Queen Audur Queen Audur
had a vessel built in the woods and In
the spring Of s57 manned the same with
twenty trusiy followers OF whom Nihi
was the chief.
After passing the intervening years In
the Ofkncys aud the Faro Islands she
arrived 10 Iceland in the summer Of 80.
where she located a large tract OF land,
which she later on apportiuucd among
her men with the exception OF Nlhl, who
received nothing.
Ono day he came TO her and said:
"What J. the reason that you do not let
me have any land whctcon to make q
home, as all the rest of your mcnf'
81 have something better Tor you,'
she replied. 81 intend Tor you to marry
one Of my granddaughter aud settle on
my estate when ! die"
Nihl lived to a good old age on the
old homestead and was highly respected
throughout the land TO him were born
many sons aud daughters. one OF his
sons was named Ihoutcin, whose son
was Val, the father OF ThorbIom. whose
daughter Gudud hurried Ihou.rin
Euksuu, q brother OF the famous Lett
Erikson, who discovered NInland
After the death Of her husband Thor
stein Gudud married one Thofhnn
Thordaron, surnamed Klrlscin, and
with him cmigratcd 10 America, or Vim
land, as Il was then called, settling on
Fall River IN the present State OF MassI.
chusctu, where they dwcIt -four years,
at which place their son Snorr was
born in the year 1908, being thus the
FIRST ucrican OF European parcn,age
ON record.
Not being able to cope with the In
dams. or SkfrIings as they called them,
Ihofiinn, with his wife aud son, went
back to Iceland, where he settled and
became a very prominent man IN that
republic. a great many people sprang
from that union, and at the present
there are many people 10 Iceland that
trace their lineage direct to them.
Snorri Ihofhnson was the father Of a
large family. One OF his daughters was
llailiud, the mother OF Bishop Ihorak.
lie va. ordained to the See Of Skalholt
in the &c iti9 Having gone 10 Rome,
where bee was well received hy the
clergy, and because of his great learn.
ing and wisdom he was by the pope ap-
pointed TO frame an ecclesiastical law for
Iceland, which he did. The law Is still
Boo force, aud rs called Bishop ThorIak's
EcClc,ilstical Law lkristn, Eicttur Thor.
llss Bis.ursl. IL was accepted by the
lcelandic Congress in the year tt93
SNORT was a Scotch descendant. not
on his moyher' side only, but ON bis
fathers also. Ills father was rhordur
ics,hoili, the son OF Thorhld Riup1,
the daughter OF lh0rdur Gcllir. the son
OF OLAF Feilan, who was horn in Scot.
land, His parents were Thontein Rrd,
born in Dublin, Ireland, and Thurid,
born In Angelsea, In Wales. ThorsteIn
Reds parents were either born there or
ON the Isle OF Man
loiN THoRGEiRsoN.