Olaf Feilan Thorsteinsson (Ólaf's faultan Thorsteinsson)

The nickname bugan means little wolf

• Farmer at Hvammur in Dalabyggð municipality in western Iceland
• f. about 870 in Scotland son of Thorstein Red, Earl of Caithness, and his wife Turid Eyvindsdottir.
• After his father's death, Olaf was raised by his grandmother Aud Deep-minded and emigrated with her to Iceland, where they settled on the property called Hvamm in the Laxardal region. Olaf married a woman named Alfdis from Barrø around 920. They got the children Thord Gellir, Ingjald, Grane, Tora, Helga, Thorunn and Thordis
• According to the Laxdæla saga, Grandma Aud arranged the engagement and planned the wedding party until the end of the summer (or fall), which she predicted "would be the last party she would hold" she actually died during the festival that lasted 3 days, but the party continued to celebrate both Olav's marriage and Aud's death. The landmate book only states that she died during the burial she held for herself pending her own death
• Olaf died around 940. Shortly after his death, his nephew Hoskuld Dala-Kollsson named his illegitimate son Olaf the Peacock as namesake[6][7] (Olaf the Peacock had a son Kjartan Óláfsson, who was the beloved of Gudrun Osvifsdottir, heroine of Laxdæla saga).

History

Olaf Feilan Thorsteinsson (Old Norse: Óláfr "feilan" Þorsteinsson, Modern Icelandic: Ólafur "feilan" Þorsteinsson) (c. 890-940) was an Icelandic gothi of the Settlement period. He was the son of Thorstein the Red, jarl of Caithness, and his wife Thurid Eyvindsdottir.[1] The byname "feilan" is derived from the Old Irish fáelán, meaning wolfling or little wolf.

After the death of his father Olaf was reared by his grandmother Aud the Deep-minded,[2] and emigrated with her to Iceland, where they settled at the estate called Hvamm in the Laxardal region. Olaf married a woman named Alfdis of Barra,[3] around 920.[4] According to the Laxdæla saga Aud (called "Unn" in the saga) held Olaf dearer than anyone else, and bequested the Hvamm estate to him after her death. She arranged Olaf's betrothal to Alfdis, and planned the wedding feast for the end of summer (or autumn), which she predicted "would be the last feast I would hold".[5] She indeed died during the festivities that lasted 3-days, but the feast was continued to commemorate both Olaf's marriage and Aud's death. The Landnámabók gives briefer notice on this, merely stating she died during the funeral feast she held for herself in anticipation of her own death.[3]

The children of Olaf and Alfdis

• Thord
• Gellir
• Thora
• Helga
• Thorunn
• Thordis

Source - https://www.revolvy.com/page/Olaf-Feilan

A First Settler of Hvamm in the Dales, From Wikipedia

Olaf Feilan ("Olaf little wolf, old nors Ylving, old eng Wulfing, irish name Faelan") (c. 890-940) was an Icelandic gothi of the Settlement period. He was the son of Thorstein the Red, jarl of Caithness, and his wife Thurid Eyvindsdottir. After the death of his father Olaf accompanied his grandmother Aud the Deep-minded to Iceland, and settled with her at Hvamm in the Laxardal region. Around 920 Olaf married a woman named Alfdis. Aud died at their wedding feast. The children of Olaf and Alfdis were Thord Gellir, Thora, Helga, Thorunn, and Thordis.

Olaf died around 940. His nephew Olaf the Peacock was named after him.

Óláfr erroran Þorsteinsson Name / Precedence: Olaf Feilan Location: Vestl. Island Relations: Son of Thorstein Red. Married to Alfdis from Barrø. Had the sons Ingjald and Grane and their daughters Vigdis, Thordis and Thora. Sources: Iceland Book: 5, Appendix 1, Appendix 2; Landnamabogen: 73, 82, S109, 334 Notes: Also called Óleifr

http://heimskringla.no/wiki/Landnamabogen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Feilan

Descendants - Lines from Thord Gellir

— Eyjolf the Gray Thordarson — Thorkel Eyjolfsson (4th husband of Gudrun Osvifsdottir late in Laxdæla saga)[8]
— Eyjolf the Gray Thordarson — Gellir — Thorgils — Ari the Learned.[9] — Thorkel Kuggi Thordarson — Thorstein Kuggason (also late in Laxdæla saga)[8] — Thorhild Rjupa (the Ptarmigan), wife of Snorri — Thord Horsehead — Thorfinn Karlsefni the explorer to Vinland[10]

Laxdæla Saga

• Kunz, Keneva (2000). "The Saga of the People of Laxardal". In Smiley, Jane. The Sagas of the Icelanders. Viking. pp. 270–421. ISBN 0-670-89040-5. ; also "The Vinland Sagas," pp. 626–676
• Magnusson, Magnus; Pálsson, Hermann (1969). Laxdæla Saga (preview). Penguin. ISBN 0-14-044218-9.
• Njordur P. Njardvik cand. mag. Laxdaela saga Prentsmidjan Oddi 1970 Note s. 24

Other Sagas

• Press, Muriel A. C. (1906). "Chapter 7". Laxdæla Saga. London: J. M. Dent. p. 10.
• Hollander, Lee, transl. Njal's Saga. Wordsworth, 1999.
• Scudder, Bernard, transl. Egil's Saga. Penguin Classics, 2005.

Studies

• Byock, Jesse. Viking Age Iceland. Penguin Books, 2001.
• Forte, Angelo, Richard Oram and Frederik Pedersen. Viking Empires. Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-521-82992-5.
• Jones, Gwyn. A History of the Vikings. 2nd ed. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984.
• Ordower, Henry. "Exploring the Literary Function of Law and Litigation in 'Njal's Saga.'" Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring – Summer 1991), pp. 41–61.

Texts and translations, Ari the Learned, Landnámabók

• Ellwood, T. (Thomas), 1838-1911 (1894). The Book of the Settlement of Iceland:s it Illustrates the Dialect, Place Names, Folk Lore, & Antiquities of Cumberland, Westmorland, and North Lancashire. Kendal: T. Wilson.
• Ellwood, T. (Thomas), 1838-1911 (1898). "Part II, Ch. XIX". The Book of the Settlement of Iceland: translated from the original Icelandic of Ari the Learned. Kendal: T. Wilson. p. 69.
• Hermann, Pálsson (2007). Landnámabók. §109. Olaf Feilan: Univ. of Manitoba Press. p. 55. ISBN 0-88-755370-2. ISBN 978-0-887-55370-7

Sources

• Iceland Saga - https://books.google.com/books?id=5lGDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT76&lpg=PT76&dq=Ólafur+%22Feilan%22+Þorsteinsson&source=bl&ots=aSUxlkeMow&sig=2bdw0LGkBLJU8wq3ScFf8RGOvhU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi94sa3krffAhXC6IMKHQiuBzoQ6AEwEHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Ólafur%20%22Feilan%22%20Þorsteinsson&f=false
• Íslendinga saga: Bd. Landnámsöldin um 874-930 - https://books.google.com/books?id=pSdNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA326&lpg=PA326&dq=Ólafur+%22Feilan%22+Þorsteinsson&source=bl&ots=VS9OusJ1zQ&sig=FUIAFyyjlLxgh1NZlgk2NpqMrNI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi94sa3krffAhXC6IMKHQiuBzoQ6AEwEXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Ólafur%20%22Feilan%22%20Þorsteinsson&f=false
• Timarit.is - https://m.timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=5631023
• Konrad Maurer, Reise nach Island (im Sommer 1858): Kommentierte Ausgabe - https://books.google.com/books?id=dbY9DwAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA125&lpg=RA1...Ólafur+%22Feilan%22+Þorsteinsson&source=bl&ots=IRKqp4UF5i&sig=p0Ffy2jvDC-fMVDG66Z8zJx4jP4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisotO-l7ffAhVF7IMKHWq8Bm44ChDoATABegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=Ólafur%20%22Feilan%22%20Þorsteinsson&f=fale
• Landnámabók, (translations: Ellwood 1898, Part II, Ch. XV, p.63 Pálsson 2007, §109. Olaf Feilan, p.55)
• Landnámabók (Ellwood 1898, Part II, Ch. XIX, p.69 Pálsson 2007, §109. Olaf Feilan, p.55)
• Landnámabók (Ellwood 1898, Part II, Ch. XX, p.69-70, "arval feast (funeral feast)"; Pálsson 2007, §110. Aud dies, p.55)
• Press 1906, Ch.7, pp.10- (Of the Wedding of Olaf "Feilan," A.D. 920) Laxdæla saga ch.7 (Kunz 2000, p. 281); Her words are given as "..this shall be the last bridal feast arrayed by me." in Press 1906 which slightly changes the meaning.
• Press 1906, Ch.13, pp.25- (Hoskuld Returns to Iceland, A.D. 948), p.27 "Hoskuld's mistress gave birth to a male chidld.. He said it should be named Olaf, for Olaf Feilan had died a little time before, who was his mother's brother." Hoskuld's mother Thorgerd was Olaf Feilan's sister. Kunz 2000, p. lxii (Footnote to Laxdaela (Magnusson & Pálsson 1969, p. 57n)
• Ellwood 1898, p. xxi
• Kunz 2000, p. lxii

Ólafur „feilan“ Þorsteinsson Fæddur (870) Landnámsmaður í Hvammi í Dölum. Var í föruneyti með Auði „djúpúðgu“. Heimildir: Landnáma, Æ.Þing.I.264, Laxdæla saga, Grettis saga, Njáls saga